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Growing Superb Plants In Your Home Garden in 2020

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Garden Alert!!! The Coronavirus is impacting many, many things in our lives. From a gardening perspective, you need not panic. But, for the success of your gardening season, it is very important that you read the posting in our blog. Read our Garden Blog now.

The search for garden seeds hits prime time. While many people have been searching for seeds since the beginning of the new year, seed sales hit their peak in March. It also coincides with the available of seed stock and varieties offered by your favorite online and local in-store retail outlet. As we progress through the month, an increasing number of varieties will begin to run out of stock. Local stores in particular, often do not reorder seeds when they run out of stock. So, if you are looking for specific varieties, or your favorite brand of seeds, it only makes sense to shop sooner rather than later.  Garden Seeds & Supplies

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!? As a rule of thumb, most indoor starts should be planted six to eight weeks before the last frost in your area. That means you will likely plant your indoor starts sometime this month.

• 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 - It is not too early to begin to think about 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, insects, and a vast army of other pests. Stop the freeloaders. End their snack time...period.

• About pest control
• About insect control

April Garden Tips - from The Gardener's Network, where every day is a gardening day!

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

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

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

Every month, there are many holiday and special days for gardeners to celebrate their hobby. Among the holidays coming up in April:

• April is Lawn and Garden Month
• April 5th - National Dandelion Day
• April 6th - California Poppy Day
• April 7th - Caramel Popcorn Day This tasty, chewy treat is great.
• April 13th - International Plant Appreciation Day
• April 19 - National Garlic Day -  How's your breath!?
• April 22 - Earth Day - Not really a gardening day, but an earthly environment holiday that all gardeners appreciate and support.
• April 23 - National Zucchini Bread Day - they hold this at a time when you are not sick of all that zucchini.
• April, Last Friday - Arbor Day - It's also called the "Tree Planter's" holiday

   See our complete list of Special Days.

2021