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I was gardening this morning and I've got a new favorite garden tool. Tool purists may claim it's not a tool, but meh. I got a new garden bag this past Christmas - it's the red one from Lee Valley that I suppose many have seen in the catalog if you receive them. This garden bag is simply...

This morning I cleaned up my plots at our neighborhood garden. This spring I posted that this was likely going to be our last year in the space due to the property being developed. We're still waiting to hear from the owners to see when they're planning on building, so I suppose it's a...

I'm back to the well for more gourd advice. I'm growing birdhouse gourds for the 1st time this year. I've got three plants about a yard apart growing along a fence. The plants seem pretty healthy and are growing well. They've put on a lot of flowers over the last few weeks but have only...

I live in Indianapolis, just north of downtown in one of our historic neighborhoods. In 2011, several neighbors and myself started a community garden on a couple of empty lots owned by an Orthodox Church in the neighborhood. The garden space has a cool history. The Church owns an apartment...

So far, I've learned three things this week. 1) Rabbits can somehow manage to squeeze through extremely narrow spaces. 2) Rabbits like both Zinnia AND young bean plants. 3) You shouldn't refer to rabbits as predators. I live in a city and have a very small garden bed along a privacy fence...

I'm growing birdhouse gourds for the first time and would appreciate any advice on growing the plants. I started them out indoors due to our relatively short growing season and transplanted them a few weeks ago and so far they appear to be doing reasonably well. When I planted them, I trained...