Welcome to my garden site, enjoy your visit and please stop by again.
My passion is gardening and anything that has to do with organic vegetable, perennial and flower gardening.  Flowers have been proven
to lighten the spirit and calm the soul.  Here you will find resources and information related to plant and garden care including tips,
garden resources, and special deals.
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Free Minnesota
Gardening Events
Winter 2010


February 25
Blue Thumb
Workshop Planting
for Clean Water
Pleasant Hill Library

February 27
The Best Perennials
of 2010
Tonkadale
Greenhouse

North Metro Home &
Garden show
Schwan Center

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Gardening and
Horticulture Events
Start your garden now with winter sowing
Yes, it's true!  You can start your seeds
outdoors in winter - in Minnesota.  
Using recycled take-out food containers,
large soda bottles, gallon milk jugs or other
clear or translucent plastic bottles, you
make your own mini-greenhouses.

Poke holes in the bottom of the container
for drainage, and holes in the top of the
container to allow for moisture to seep in.  
Fill with potting soil, plant seeds, and seal
the container with clear duct tape.  
Then set the container in the snow bank on the east side of your home and
let nature takes it's course.

This is a very inexpensive, simple way to start seedlings without the hassle
of grow lamps, and all the guess work of when to plant, how to prevent
disease, etc.

For more information, check out this site: www.wintersown.org
Spring fever?  Visit a local garden center
This week, 49 of the 50 United States have at least a dusting of snow in a portion of the
state.  How rare this occurrence is, meteorologists are unsure, since it is not a statistic
that is normally tracked.  However, for most of us in the northern states, a blooming
flower is a very welcome sight in the dead of winter.  A visit to Wagner's Greenhouse
produced photos of these blooming beauties, a small dose of springtime.