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Growing Superb Plants In Your Home Garden in 2020

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Exciting Times! The annual seed search has now begun. It is indeed an exciting time for gardeners. As the snow flies outside our windows, we sit by the fireside and dream of beautiful flowers in full bloom, and a bountiful garden filled with our favorite herbs and vegetables. You may be surprised to learn that gardeners begin their annual seed search on Christmas day. On December 25th online garden stores see a huge uptick in traffic on this day. As we progress through the month of January, more and more gardeners seek out and buy their favorite seeds, along with something new to experiment with, to test and expand gardening skills. What are you waiting for!? Start your search today. Garden Seeds & Supplies

In Search of Seeds! Each year, we begin our gardening season with a search for seeds for the upcoming year. It's a lot of fun browsing seed catalogs, and surfing the internet for a treasure trove of promising garden seeds. Whether you like to browse through a seed catalog by the fireside, or surf online, make plans now to find the seeds that you want to plant this spring.

• About Livingston Seed Company
• Garden Seeds - find seeds, learn about the different types.

Indoor Plant Starts - Starting seeds indoors to transplant later, is one of the early joys of gardening. Why let the garden stores have all the fun, when you can start your own seedlings!? While winter goes by, review the basics of seed starting, and seedling care. As a rule of thumb, most indoor starts should be planted six to eight weeks before the last frost in your area.

• Review Indoor Seed Starting Basics
• About Damping Off Disease - the biggest threat to your young seedlings
• Seed Starting Essentials - seed trays and tools you need

Greenhouse Dreamin' Every gardener dreams of a greenhouse in their back yard. Winter months are the perfect time to dream those dreams. But, why settle with just dreaming? There's a greenhouse for just about every budget.

• Greenhouse Planning

Pest Control - Before you know it, your flowers and veggies will be up and growing. ......kewl! You anxiously await the harvest. So do birds, deer, rabbits, and a vast army of other pests. Stop the freeloaders. Ends their snack time...period.

• About pest control
• About insect control

Have you ever taken a soil pH test in your houseplants? Why not? Each pot can result in wild swings on the pH scale. An off balance pH in your houseplant's soil, often is the answer for a sick plant.

• More on soil pH

Read the Good Book.... There's plenty of good books on gardening. Reading a book on gardening, or your favorite plant, is a great way to help the winter months go by quicker. There's always something new to learn when you dig into gardening related books. There's also plenty of tips and learnings in our growing list of "how to" pages. So, make sure to surf our site and stop back often.

• Good books on Gardening
• Our "How to" pages

Homeowners love Arborvitae. Fast growing with little care, they are among the most popular of evergreens for both foundation plants and hedgerows. More on Arborvitaes.

Celebrate your Garden Hobby

There are many holiday and special days for gardener to celebrate their hobby. Among the holidays coming up in the next few weeks:

• January 6- It's Bean Day, Hooray!
• January 10 - Houseplant Appreciation Day
• January 19 - Popcorn Day - Few people grow popcorn. But, everybody loves it. This holiday is really popping!
• January 21 - Squirrel Appreciation Day. It's best that this day is in January. Gardeners do not appreciate squirrels during the gardening season.
• January Last Saturday - National Seed Swap Day
• February 3 - Feed the Birds Day
• February 14 - Valentine's Day - It's about love and roses.
• See our complete list of Special Days

2021