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Oh No, It’s Cold! What Can I Plant?
That first frost is either looming, or already fallen for many of us with outdoor gardens. But, you can plant a few crops in the fall, even in the North! Garlic is a fall planting staple, and you can even add it as an afterthought, by using store-bought cloves in some zones. I did, and…
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Quickly Win the Battle with Hand Stains
Have you put on your cloth gloves, dug out some beets, carrots, potatoes or other root vegetables, only to sometimes find vegetable or dirt stains on your skin, even after washing with soap? Sometimes these stains can happen, even from harvesting above-ground veggies, or just trimming and scrubbing your food!
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Heat Made your Greens Angry?
Never fear. You can make the most of your bolting lettuce and spinach by learning to harvest your greens’ seeds! I was fighting my leaves to grow Does the heat have your garden down? It seems impossible for me to grow usable spinach in my climate this year, because since it sprouted in May, it’s…
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Welcome! Learn More About This Site
Welcome to Vines Over Matter, a gardening blog to help you relax & learn about our plant friends and their friends. Hello! What do we have here? It’s wonderful to have you here at our very first posting! Whether you are tinkering with the idea of finding a pot or bag of potting soil or…