Flower Gardening
I'm a frugal gardener and I confess I start a lot of my own seeds for my personal flower gardening. I think that's the cheapest and most interesting way to get a lot of new plants. Seed starting is easy once you understand the basics and there are articles here on that.
This section is intended to focus on some of the nitty-gritty questions such as pruning petunias to get them to be as bushy in your containers as they are in the nursery (not all long and straggly). There's a video here for that.
From starting seeds to saving money buying bedding plants, I've tried to pass along concrete hints and tips from my gardening experience as a nurseryman and crazy garden guy. :-)
Echinacea 'Big Sky Sunrise'
Moonlight Gardening
Buy Bedding Plants
Raised Bed Gardening
How to Kill Plants
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