Melinda’s Garden

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Melinda’s Garden: Maximizing Your Harvest

Now that you've made your garden grow...how do you reap the most benefits when it comes to harvesting?
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  Now that you’ve made your garden grow…how do you reap the most benefits when it comes to harvesting? Enjoy the biggest harvest, best flavor and most nutritional value from your garden vegetables with proper harvesting. Harvest tomatoes when they are fully colored. Leave them on the plant for an extra five to eight warm days for even better flavor….
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Melinda’s Garden: Rain Barrels

Melinda Myers Shows Us How To Spruce Our Garden Up With A Festive Rain Barrel
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  Don’t let all that rain run off the roof and down the storm sewer. Capture it with a rain barrel to use for watering ornamental gardens and containers. Use this century –old technique to help keep the water where it falls and reduce pollution. Start with a call to your local municipality. Some have restrictions on water harvesting but…