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Growing from seed

In the dark, dark days of winter, you are visited by the sirens of seed catalogs. Instead of tropical beaches, you see lush produce. I used to use peat pots for the seedlings but now I use coconut coir pots. The Coir people make the case that peat is a relatively finite resource. Both peat and coir providers tell you …

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Birds

My garden has over a dozen species of visiting birds. Anna’s hummingbirds – If you add a hummingbird-feeder, you will have them year-round Lesser Gold-finches – they like the small niger seed House Finches (aka Rose finches) – they like the small niger seed plus larger seeds up to sunflower size Oregon juncos Chestnut-backed Chickadees Bewick Wren Scrub Blue Jays …

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Squirrels

Question: When are your apricots ripe? Answer: The day the squirrels discover them. Squirrels and Humans find many of the same fruits delicious. Squirrels will eat most stone fruits (apricots, cherries, plums, etc). Also apples, pears, tomatoes. You look out of your kitchen window and see the squirrel eating your apricot on the back wall. Or you will see a …

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Flowering Bulbs

Bulbs is a generic term for bulbs, rhizomes, and tuberous roots. Bulbs are planted in the soil at varying depths. Bearded Irises are often at the surface. Ornithagulum and Dahlias may be 8 to 10 inches deep. , sollicitudin volutpat at libero litora, non adipiscing. Nulla nunc porta lorem, nascetur pede massa mauris lectus lectus, in magnis, praesent turpis. Ut …

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