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Get your onion orders in! We stop shipping Onion Plants on May 11th.

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  We are well into our 2015 gardening harvest season here in Upstate South Carolina, and it’s always exciting when we get to sample the fruits of our labors. Our local strawberry season is complete, as are blackberries, peaches and blueberries—my personal favorite. The hot and dry summer limited crops of yellow squash, zucchini and […]

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DIY No Hay Bales – Alternative to Straw Bales In those locations where straw bales are difficult, if not impossible to find, Straw Bale Gardens Complete author Joel Karsten has recently solved this problem by designing his “BaleMaker 3000,” a pet name for his simple machine, that allows users to make their own bales by […]

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Head Start on Gardening “One of the greatest benefits of this Straw Bale Garden system is that it can give you a head start of two weeks or more on the growing season,” declares Joel Karsten, author of Straw Bale Gardens Complete.  “The internal heat created by the decomposing straw is a big part of […]

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The Symbol of Health and Longevity “People have been touting the health benefits of apples for at least 5000 years,” says author Jo Robinson in her book, Eating on the Wild Side.  “Our well-known rhyme ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away’ is a remake of a 19th century Welsh saying: ‘Et an apple […]

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  PREP TIME:  30 MINUTES BAKING TIME:  50-60 MINUTES TOTAL TIME:  80-90 MINUTES                 YIELD:  6-8 SERVINGS   Preparation: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease an 8-inch-square baking pan.   Crisp Base: 2 ½ pounds apples, preferably Granny Smith 1/4 cup honey 15 drops stevia liquid 1 tablespoon tapioca flour 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ½ teaspoon […]

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Melons and Summertime Memories “For many people, melons are inexplicably linked with summer.  When I eat a great-tasting cantaloupe, I am transported back to the warm summer mornings of my childhood, when my parents and four siblings and I would eat breakfast on the patio."

The Three “A’s” of Vegetables “Artichokes, asparagus, and avocados belong to three different families of vegetables.  What unites them—other than the fact that they all begin with the letter a—is that they are wonderfully nutritious and deserve to play a larger role in the American diet,” says veteran organic gardener and scientific research writer Jo […]

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