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06/25/2025

06/19/2024

Did you know these flowers are edible? Both the flowers and leaves of nasturtiums are edible, offering a peppery taste similar to watercress. They make a colorful addition to salads, garnishes, and even as a substitute for capers. 🧑‍🍳

Nasturtiums are also:
Good for Pollinators 🦋
Drought Tolerant 💦
Deer Resistant 🦌
Fragrant 👃
Great companion plant to cucumbers (plant in your raised garden beds) 🤝

06/17/2024

Increasing the diversity of a landscape works wonders in preventing this disaster. 💫

This diversification mixes things up enough to prevent pathogens
from spreading mercilessly through a monoculture of plants. 🌿

06/12/2024

Cosmos are a great flower to add to the garden!

They are...
Good for Pollinators ✅
Drought Tolerant ✅
Deer Resistant ✅

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06/07/2024

Pollinator Month is a time to celebrate and support the essential role that bees, butterflies, and other pollinators play in our ecosystem by promoting awareness and planting pollinator-friendly flowers. 🐝 🙌 🦋

What flowers are you ready to see bloom? Comment below!⬇️

06/04/2024

Increasing the diversity of a landscape works wonders in preventing this disaster. Try to have no more than 10 percent of a cultivar and less than 30 percent of plants of the same family. 🙌🌱

05/31/2024

What is it?
Chaos gardening is a movement that embraces a more natural and relaxed approach to landscaping allows plants to grow more freely and mimic natural ecosystems, leading to increased biodiversity and reduced maintenance. 🙌

How to do it? 🧐
Select appropriate plant species.
Prepare the soil.
Managing weeds and pests in a sustainable manner
Chaos garden away! 🌱

05/28/2024

Please be sure to keep an eye out for these tree-eating pests. 🔬

Each egg case can contain up to 1,000 eggs 😱

If you see one, scape them into a hot, soapy water bucket to reduce the next generation and keep your tree safe!

05/24/2024

Avoid fertilizers high in nitrogen, it will cause carrots to grow lots of leaves and less focus on growing the root. 🥕

But don’t let those leaves go to waste! Carrot leaves can be used for all kinds of cooking like pesto, chimichurri, and salads. 🍽️

05/22/2024

Celebrate Victoria Day with plants! 🌿

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