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Thermometer on dirt
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August Garden Chores

Hot, hotter, hottest –the norm for this month along the Gulf coast. What gardeners like you and me need most is WATER! I’ve got seven

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Watermelon
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Garden Chores For July

If July is anything like June, it’s going to be a hot one again. So that means wearing protective clothing, and a broad-brimmed hat. If

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Gardening
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June Garden Chores

Clothing June is traditionally very hot in USDA Zones 8 and 9, as you know, so be sure when you’re out in the sun to

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Yellow and purple flowers in a field
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Garden chores for May

May marks the beginning of the summer’s brutal heat along the Gulf Coast. Vegetables, annual ornamentals, perennials, fruit and other trees are feeling the heat.

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Wild sunflowers
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May Garden Chores

May marks the beginning of the summer’s brutal heat along the Gulf Coast. Vegetables, annual ornamentals, perennials, fruit and other trees are feeling the heat.

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April sign with flowers and lights
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Gardening Chores for April

Those tomatoes you planted in early March are flowering, promising a bumper crop. Daylilies are blooming. Hummingbirds are dominating your feeders, Turk’s Cap, and other

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Eastern Bluebird
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March Garden Chores

Spring, for most of us in USD’s cold hardiness zones 9 and 10, arrives in March. It’s the best time to be gardening. As Francis

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Gardening Chores For February
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Gardening Chores For February

It’s February, and time for mulching, pruning, fertilizing and just one more month until spring here on the Gulf Coast. Most of us gardeners are

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Hands holding dirt and earthworms
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How Earthworms Help Your Garden

Want an abundant vegetable garden? Lush lawn? Healthy and beautiful flowers? Then the lowly earthworm can help you.  They’re hard workers,  and can help you

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