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Three Sisters garden with corn, squash and beans The history around our small community of Cambridge in northern New York is rich with agricultural lore and legend dating back centuries. The area was originally home to the Iroquois Five Nations, who were a mix of...
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5 Great Good-Things-to-Grow Gifts for Mom Raised bed backyard garden with flowers, veggies, and herbs. Mother’s Day is coming up quickly (just like her garden!) and if you still haven’t found the right gift, you’re in luck! We’re here to help make this the best...
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Most of us look forward to spring with good reason: longer days and warm temperatures mean finally being able to ditch onerous winter outerwear and enjoy the outdoors again. Year in year out, we get through winter patiently (some of us more than others), cheered...
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Admittedly, we write a lot about gardening in the northeast, which makes sense when you consider that we’re located in upstate New York (generally zone 4-5, depending on the elevation). However, we recognize that many of our customers are fortunate enough to live in...
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Newly minted (ha! Get it?) vegetable gardeners can be taken by surprise when their beautiful lettuce plants they’ve been enjoying since the beginning of the season start sending up flower stalks all of the sudden, and go to seed. When this happens, the heretofore...
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Grow your own eggplant from seed and create delicious culinary favorites such as Eggplant Parmigiana. Our featured eggplant variety: Black Beauty AboutInteresting FactsGardening TipsHarvestingHighlights About Eggplants The mention of the word, eggplant, often brings...