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I know that many of my readers have gardens, or plants growing on their balconies and patios. I’ll even go so far as to bet that you get some of your plants and lawn and garden supplies at Home Depot.

If you click on the image that I’ve listed above, you can sign up for Home Depots Garden Club newsletters.

When you sign up for the Garden Club you’ll get information about exclusive offers and receive coupons for items that you might purchase for your garden. Who doesn’t love exclusive deals? I know I love ’em!

You’ll also get gardening news, gardening tips, regional reports and a whole lot more.

I love the idea of getting additional gardening tips, but I’m interested in signing up mainly for the exclusive deals and coupon savings. Check it out for yourself. 🙂






Keep slugs at bay

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Here’s my Tip of The Day:

If you live in a zone 5 or lower climate do not put mulch on your garden beds until June!

If you put it on too early you’ll have lots of slugs. Instead, take this time to stir up the soil around your plants. This will expose tiny slugs and either kill them off, or expose them to birds and other predators that will eat them.

You’ll have far fewer slugs if you turn the soil around your plants at least once a week until the end of May. Then, to keep moisture in the ground, and to help keep your plants roots cool, do put mulch around your plants anytime from the beginning of June to mid-June. Your garden will be be happy, will be a little more drought tolerant and you’ll likely have less slugs to deal with.

This really works!

The garden grew overnight!

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Yesterday I told you about how lightening puts free nitrogen in the air and that often after a good storm that includes lightening you’ll notice that your plants have grown.

Well, the storm that I was referring to occurred about about 4 a.m. on Thursday the 10th of May, and here it is the 11th of May and when I look out at my garden everything is a mass of green and or blooms.

I wish I had a before and after picture to show you of my messy garden. You see, I haven’t finished trimming, pruning and pulling out all the dead tangle of old plants that died off last fall so there’s lots of graying dead plant stems and leaves throughout half the garden. Up until today that was clearly visible in many areas of the garden but when I look outside today the lush green vegetation of the super charged plants are hiding a good portion of it.

I went out and took a photo at about 2 pm this afternoon .. you can see in the left flower bed that I still have a lot of work to do to make it look really nice … but the plants sure have grown in just one day.

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