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Month: January 2016

How to Start Seeds Indoors

How to Start Seeds Indoors

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 31, 2016
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How to Start Seeds Indoors Planting seeds indoors in the mid-winter time-frame has become an annual event for me and it is the only relief I have from the miserably … Continue Reading →

Salal Flower

Salal Plant Information Info You Need to Know

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 29, 2016
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Salal Plant Information Info You Need to Know includes multiple names like shallon, gaultheria and (Gaultheria shallon). This perennial upright, leathery leaved bush that is in the heather family is … Continue Reading →

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Introduction to Permaculture Design DVD Review Info You Need to Know

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 27, 2016
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This is a review of the Introduction to Permaculture Design DVD Review. The DVD “Introduction to Permaculture Design” is written and presented by Geoff Lawton.  The DVD gives the viewer … Continue Reading →

Serviceberry Berries

Serviceberry Trees Information You Need to Know

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 26, 2016
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This post provides Serviceberry Trees Information to include how to grow, propagate, and eat this wonderful plant along with how to use it medicinally. Serviceberry is a deciduous shrub or … Continue Reading →

Elderberry Fruit

Making Elderberry Syrup A Recipe You Will Love

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 25, 2016
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This article focuses on Making Elderberry Syrup.  Elderberry syrup is edible as a juice and is used as a medicinal. Last summer I harvested, cleaned, and froze two one gallon … Continue Reading →

Before and After Videos of the Blizzard of 2016

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 24, 2016
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In late summer 2015 I took several videos showing the progress of plants around the yard at the Pasadena residence.  Then in December 2015 I did another video showing the … Continue Reading →

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Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden book Review Info You Need to Know

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 22, 2016
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This post, Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden book Review, is about Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden, by Lee Reich, and is a wonderful book that I have gone back to … Continue Reading →

Thimbleberry Flower

Thimbleberry Plants – Unique to all but West Coast

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 21, 2016
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Thimbleberry plants are shrubs that are unique to all but those on the west coast of the United States.  It has edible and medicinal qualities and is attractive to a … Continue Reading →

Topsets

Egyptian Walking Onions A Wonderful Unique Edible

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 20, 2016
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The Egyptian walking onions have a unique self-propagation habit.  It has bulbs at the top of the stalk that weight the stalk down to the point it bends over and … Continue Reading →

Yellowhorn Flower

Yellowhorn Tree Information You Need to Know

  • By Todd McCree
  • January 19, 2016
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This post provides Yellowhorn Tree Information.  You will learn how to eat, grow, and propagate this medicinal and delicious plant. Yellowhorn (Xanthoceras sorbifolium), also known as goldenhorn, is a beautiful … Continue Reading →

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