Garden Tips and Techniques
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An August Morning in the Garden
BY:Josh Kilmer-PurcellGrab yourself a cup of coffee and come take a walk around the garden with me.
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7 Great Tips Early Spring Gardening
BY:Abigail TurnerThere is a certain skill behind creating and caring for the perfect spring garden that requires patience, love, and attention to detail. That hard work is what makes the finished product so rewarding and fulfilling.
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Prepping the Spring Garden, Part 1: Weeding & Feeding
BY:Kerry MendezI’ve got a bad case of the winter blues. Even enchanting flower gardening magazines and catalogues aren’t helping. At this time of the year I feel like a ship’s captain scanning the horizon for land – except I am searching for small green shoots. The minute I see something green I’ll scamper out for a […]
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Reuse that Salad Container for …Salad.
BY:Josh and BrentThis winter gardening tip is either ironic, serendipitous, or meta. Or maybe a little bit of all three. Re-using empty lettuce containers as mini greenhouses to grow new lettuce is really the ultimate in recycling.
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Constructing Protective Deer Cages for Young Trees
BY:Josh and Brent[youtube width=”500″ height=”375″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHK735aa66s[/youtube] By far the most common question we get about gardening from nearly every corner of America is “How to you keep deer away from your plants?!?” We usually answer “Coyotes….and lots of ’em.” For the most part, we don’t have many issues with deer. Our gardens are surrounded by acres of open […]
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Preparing the Spring Garden, Part 2: Grasses & Roses
BY:Kerry MendezAt this point, I am just itchin’ to get my hands in the dirt – excuse me, I mean soil (dirt is a no-no word in a gardener’s vocabulary). Are the pages of your garden magazines and catalogs becoming worn and tattered as they wear out their effectiveness for substituting for the real thing? […]
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Urban Gardens
BY:Josh and BrentWe like to joke that our first “farm” was on the rooftop of our NYC apartment building. It was there that we grew our first heirloom tomatoes (along with peppers, shallots, squash, cucumbers, and every herb imaginable). Here Beekman 1802 guest blogger Tracy Linden gives some tips on starting your own vegetable garden no […]
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A Walk around the Garden
BY:Josh Kilmer-PurcellIt’s not you, it’s me. I’ve been a little quiet on “the Social Medias” lately, because, well, because all my spare time has been spent socializing with vegetables. (And the occasional bee and cabbage moth.) Most everyone knows that the Beekman 1802 Vegetable Garden is my favorite spot in the whole world, and this time […]
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Slug & Snail Control
BY:Josh Kilmer-PurcellThey come at night. Waves of them. Well, maybe not waves, but that’s how I envision them…crawling out from beneath their rocks and leaves and massing together to plan their attack. All you’ll see of them in the morning is their wake – bean and lettuce leaves with holes in them, and perfectly ripened strawberries […]
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Battling the Invaders
BY:Josh Kilmer-PurcellIsn’t it amazing what we pretend to forget every year? “Oh, I won’t plant the tomato plants six feet apart. They’ll never grow that big.” “I don’t need to cover the strawberries with straw. It’ll probably be a mild winter.” “It’s too hot to wear long sleeve and pants while weed-whacking.” It’s that last […]