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Day after tomorrow, the world! RENEGADE GARDENER is the Web's best site for gardeners seeking truth, hope, and one lousy sign that someone unfettered by industry prejudice is interested in helping you become a better gardener. Originally designed to help gardeners banished to the forgotten USDA Zones 2-4, bold, universal content has made it one of the Web’s most-linked gardening sites. Gardening is gardening, design is design, dumb is dumb, and truth conquers all! Click HERE for Don’s updated 2010 |
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Planting on a Slope
02-1-10 –I launched this site eleven years ago simply to relate useful gardening information, as the hundreds of articles found by clicking any of the buttons to the left will attest. However, this fall it occurred to me that many of my winter updates in recent years have been devoted to self-indulgent slide shows from my travels, or most often my bemused comments on garden industry politics, trends, and buffoonery. The latter provide grist for the dilapidated mill that spits out my annual High Spot/Black Spot Awards each January, of course, but now that February is here, how about I get back to relating practical gardening advice? Here’s a topic I’ve never touched on. We don’t always plant on flat, level ground, unless you garden in Winnipeg, come to think of it. Flattest city and suburbs I’ve ever seen. Makes Omaha look like Rome, no mild trick. Wonderful city, don’t get me wrong, just—flat. So Winnipeg aside, quite often it’s a slope of some degree on which we feel inspired to plant trees, shrubs or perennials. Here’s an important technique to know when planting on a slope. Current Column will be updated March 1 |
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