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May 18, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Do you have a small garden? Make it do double-duty as a space for outdoor entertaining and growing edibles. Garden designer Susan Morrison is an expert on small space landscapes and she gave us quick design…
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May 17, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
At the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show nationally known garden designer Rebecca Sweet visited our booth and talked about her own experience in growing edibles in wall pouches on her fence. Enjoy…
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May 17, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Vertical gardening can give you healthier plants—and more growing space. It’s time to rethink how you grow your vegetables and fruits. Anything that has a viney habit (including indeterminate…
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May 10, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
All chickens deserve dry, safe places to live. Offer them good grub too—and you’ll get yummy eggs full of Omega-3 fatty acids! Give your backyard chickens the best room and board. Here at Peaceful…
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March 7, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Ready to start your first vegetable garden? The three essentials for an easy vegetable garden are: Full sun Convenient water supply Good soil Add some basic supplies and you’ll be off and growing.…
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February 17, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Add currant bushes to your garden for an easy, deer-resistant edible that also grows in part-shade. If you live in USDA zones 3-8 currants are a must for your garden. In our new video, Tricia plants currants…
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February 8, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Once you have a strawberry bed going, you need to renovate and renew it every year, to maintain healthy yields. Strawberries are vigorous plants. As they increase you want to keep the beds from becoming…
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January 19, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
In honor of the fact-filled new book, Free-Range Chicken Gardens, Timber Press is giving away a panoply of poultry products. What’s in the giveaway? First in the pecking order is the book itself…
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January 12, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
Things change. Advice for planting bare root trees has changed too. Colorado State University studied root growth in fruit trees. They have a planting technique that expands root growth by 400%. Curious?…
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January 11, 2012 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley
WHAT’S A CHILL HOUR? You’re happily choosing your blueberries from our catalog when you suddenly notice extra numbers in the descriptions. Number of chill hours? Isn’t it enough to know…
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