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- Neighborhood Gardening Co-op
- Winter Dreaming
- Freeze-Frame Winter
- Trees in Tubs
- Heads Up! There's work to do.
- What is Northern Gardening?
- Sorting Out the Fall Chores
- Bulbs 101 - customized for northern zones - Sign Up Now!
- Spider Time
- A Mess O' Mums
- Late Summer Check on the Tomato Project
- Guerilla Gardening
- Reviving or Rescuing a Landscape
- Anyone Can Landscape!
- Some Things That Look Broke Don't Need Fixing
- Making Lemonade from Your Lemons
- Choosing and Planting Your New Tree
- The Art of Choosing the Best Tree for Your Yard
- Unrealistic Expectations
- Cool Season and Cold Tolerant Annuals
- A Few of My Favorite Things, Part Two
- A Few of My Favorite Things, Part One
- Being an Heirloom Gardener
- Employ Annual Vines for Summer Entertainment
- Hire a Vine, They Work Hard
- Catalog Shopping for Northern Gardeners
- What are Plants Worth?
- Seed Starting 201, the Next Level
- Caring for Holiday Plants
- Cream of the Crop
- Peaceful Co-existence Between Your Pets and Your House Plants
- Work Less, Enjoy the Garden More with Ground Covers
- Peonies that Bloom All Summer?
- Not Your Grandma's Coleus!!
- Turtleheads, Pillars of the Fall Garden
- Fantastic Fall Finale
- Uninvited Garden Party Guests
- Coffee In the Garden
- Summer Garden Plug-Ins
- Too Much Water!!
- Let's Improve Technology in the Garden
- Using Grasses and their Look Alikes in the Shade
- Dressing Your Garden for Its Big Date
- Spring is the Time to Share Your Garden
- Northern Lights Azaleas, Treasurers for Northern Gardeners
- The Truth About Lawn Care
- Planting Bare Root Plants
- Morning Glory Research in My Garden. Want to Try It?
- Where, Oh Where Has Our Winter Gone?
- Give 'Em a Haircut and Start Over
- Looking at Plants in their Underwear!
- It’s Almost February, Do You Know Where Your Geraniums Are?
- Shopping for Those Special Plants
- Millennial Gardening
- Where Do We Go From Here?
- What’s New in Paper White Narcissus
- The Master Gardener Program
- Putting the Lawn to Bed
- Gardener’s Harvest
- Garden Economics, Let's Invest for Spring
- The Peony, A Queen Among Perennials for the North
- What's All the Hype About Gypsum?
- Tomatoes!!
- A New Wrinkle in Iris Borer Control
- On the Road Again
- Boulevard Gardens
- Time to Prune Perennials
- American Horticultural Society Heat Zone Map
- The Pitfalls of Pass Along Plants
- The Fungus Among Us
- New Gardeners Next Door
- Journey North with the Spring
- Herbicides in Flower Beds
- TLC for Oaks and Elms
- Pre-Spring Tune Up
- Eloise Butler and Her Wild Flower Garden
- The Pregnant Pause or What Do We Do While We Wait for Spring?
- Our Winter Pleasure Palace
- Snow, Wonderful Snow!
- Great New Northern Resources
- It's That Time of Year Again!
- All About Poinsettias
- Holiday Bulbs for the Coming Winter Doldrums
- Seed Saving
- Putting Roses to Bed
- Fall Gardening Anticipates Spring
- Moonlight Madness Scent-Sations for Your Garden
- Frost Alert! Fall chore time!
- Fall Planting in the North
- Fireworks in the Garden!
- Cutting Flowers in the Garden
- Making Weeding Easier
- Heat, a Problem in the North?
- Shade Gardens Exposed!
- Sure You Can Grow It - It’s Just An Annual Here
- Mum’s the Word Now in the North
- Weatherman, Weatherman! Look at my Tree!
- Farmer's Market
- Using Recycled Materials in the Garden
- Ready, Set - Grow!
- Bridging the Gap to Spring in the North
- Women, Keepers of the Garden
- Starting Perennials from Seed
- Starting Your Summer Garden Indoors - Don't Hurry!
- Roses for Cold Climates
- Another DIFFERENT Winter!
- Troubleshooting on the Windowsill
- Water Quality
- Now What Do I Do?
- Spring in the Basement
- Thanksgiving in My Garden
- On Hold 'til Frost
- Fall Transitions
- Fall is Coming!
- Gardening in the North

- Is -33C northern? Yes!

- What is northern? Let me tell you...
- Re: What is northern? Let me tell you...
- Re: What is northern? Let me tell you...

- Neighborhood Gardening Co-op

- Welcome Back
- Re: Welcome Back
- Re: Re: Welcome Back
- Hello Fellow Northern Gardener!

- Coffee In the Garden

- What a great rule!
- Wonderful way to
- Re: What a great rule!
- Re: What a great rule!
- Re: Re: What a great rule!
- Isn't it about time....
- Trying again
- Re: Trying again
- Re: Trying again

- Guerilla Gardening

- We do think alike sometimes!
- Guerrila Gardening project in CA

- where can I buy the hardy mums from article about mess o mums?

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- Winter Dreaming

- This is delightful, Mary

- Bulbs 101 - customized for northern zones - Sign Up Now!

- You really know your Northern Gardening!
- Minor bulbs

- Spider Time

- nature's inspiration

- Some Things That Look Broke Don't Need Fixing

- I wish you had written this last week
- Re: I wish you had written this last week

- GARDEN FUNGUS

- GARDEN FUNGUS
- Re: GARDEN FUNGUS
- fungus on cocoa mulch

- Making Lemonade from Your Lemons

- Featured Article
- Great ideas, Mary

- Catalog Shopping for Northern Gardeners

- Catalog Shopping
- Re: Catalog Shopping

- Morning Glory Research in My Garden. Want to Try It?

- I live in Western Washington and have not
- starting morning glories indoors
- morning glories
- New Varieties
- Re: New Varieties

- All About Poinsettias

- poinsettias

- Not Your Grandma's Coleus!!

- Cuttings

- Uninvited Garden Party Guests

- Fascinating!

- Fruit Trees

- No fruit on fig tree

- Silk Trees

- Flowering Trees

- Let's Improve Technology in the Garden

- Fnny you should ask
- How could the problem be fixed?
- Easy
- Source for custom tools
- Re: not-stooped.com
- The URL

- Spring is the Time to Share Your Garden

- Sounds like you have done this many times!

- Help With Oak Tree

- Oak Tree
- Ooops!
- Norway maple

- Planting Bare Root Plants

- Bare root fruit trees got their

- Where, Oh Where Has Our Winter Gone?

- You are so right.

- The Peony, A Queen Among Perennials for the North

- varieties of peonies
- fragrant peonies
- fragrant peonies
- Peony books
- double post
- Do Deer Eat Peonies?
- deer and peonies
- Ooops, I'd better learn to read!

- It’s Almost February, Do You Know Where Your Geraniums Are?

- saving geraniums

- Where Do We Go From Here?

- I've enjoyed your articles in the past

- Herbicides in Flower Beds

- Suggestions?
- herbicides in flower beds
- Corn Gluten, eh?
- vinca
- vinca problems

- Does anyone know of a plant called `sarcoxie"

- Marie McDonald
- Any clues? Tree? Shrub? Perennial? Flower color, etc.? I know of
- re: Mary Henry's query on a plant named Sarcoxie
- A plant named "Sarcoxie"
- persistence pays off!

- Tomatoes!!

- Oh to be in Minnesota

- A New Wrinkle in Iris Borer Control

- What timing!

- On the Road Again

- That sounds wonderful

- Time to Prune Perennials

- As soon as I saw your title
- This definately rates a five!
- another use for summer pruning!
- Ah yes!

- Heat Zone Map

- Great Stuff
- heat zone map
- Maggie

- Any Garden Activity Yet?

- Has Anyone Started?
- Mad to get started
- I Know What You Mean
- Hi Bernice
- If You Counted Them Up...
- "southern gardeners"
- Lots of Plants Now

- Pre-Spring Tune Up

- Spring startup
- Hi Elvira,
- hardy magnolias
- Growing Magnolias

- Our Winter Pleasure Palace

- Gardening in Duluth, MN

- Fireworks in the Garden!

- Mary, I had to smile when I saw your title and then realized th
- gervais robia. Looking for information on Chinese Lanterns/physa
- Ornamental grass site

- Caring for shrubs in the winter

- Michelle Bohart Hi Mary, I just recently planted a rose of s
- Unknown shrub

- Fall Gardening Anticipates Spring

- Mary, I really enjoyed your article! As a North Eastern US ga

- Sure You Can Grow It - It’s Just An Annual Here

- Mary, I got all three 'flavors' of sweet potato vine this yea
- It's often stored that way, Carol, just as you would hold sweet
- janet ross I am not adding to the discussion, but could someone
- Sorry Janet, I don't know the recipe (maybe over in Organic gard
- I wonder if you would store them like Dahlia tubers? I put mine
- Don't know if you got the aphid answer in Organic Gardening or n
- Linda and Marcella, They are stored much like dahlia roots. The

- Tomatoes: Propagation and Growing under Light

- I have a potted tomato that I intend to bring inside and grow un
- Hi Ashley I grew tomatoes indoors a few years ago. I used flu
- Ashley, Growing tomatoes to bring in from stem cuttings is a v

- hosta & perennial what a deal

- cher smyers: FYI: The Internet Perennial Plant Dollar Store.. is

- Shade Gardens Exposed!

- Good Heavens, Mary, I didn't realize there had been that kind of

- Using Recycled Materials in the Garden

- Here are a few more ideas using recycleds. An old wooden pict
- I have the head and footboard of an old iron bed in the barn, an
- Some more thoughts...I have an 18" chicken feeder with paired ho
- One more thought: One local gardener does uses bedsprings as tr
- You had many more thoughts, Barb, in your article on Last summer I saw an old smashed kayak hung vertically on a wall
- Maggie McFadzen I'm a container gardener, and besides the sto
- Mary, I've used my old baseball cleats for planters. I also use
- Mary, I've used my old baseball cleats for planters. I also use
- How do you spray Tanglefoot -- I always thought it had to be pai

- Yellow hardy roses

- I am looking for yellow winter hardy roses to plant as a hedge a
- What zone are you in? Yellow, unfortunately, is the last hardy
- Carol is right. Yellow is the least hardy color in roses.
- I did find one yelow rose reputed to be hardy to at least zone 4
- E. Snelson Thanks for the input! I am zone 4 (St Paul) and ha

- Weatherman, Weatherman! Look at my Tree!

- Mary, that was a lovely article and one that I spend my working
- If nothing else, the trees will have better air circulation to b
- We had just such a hailstorm Friday of last week. At my home the

- Farmer's Market

- I absoulutly love farmer's markets,both comercial and individual

- Ready, Set - Grow!

- Your garden centers are actually selling plants already?? The on
- Normally, I would keep the mulch pile for a while, but this year
- Maggie McFadzen Had today off and transplanted the tomatoes a
- It's funny, as my sense of when things bloom knows it's all out

- Keeping cats out of your flower garden

- I have had this problems on several occasions with my next door
- That sounds like it works really well Carol -- thanks for the ti
- Orange and lemon peels keep the squirrels away??? Thanks for the

- Women, Keepers of the Garden

- Barbara Hall: I wish I could say 'thank you' but my father die
- It was a trip down memory lane for me too. My mom and dad had a

- Keeping cats out a flower bed

- Deb Richards I have a flower bed that against the house, ther
- Hi Deb, I did an article on exactly that problem last month. Yo

- Failing with Dutch Iris

- Deb Richards I can't seem to get Dutch Iris to come up and pr
- Deb, I suspect a soil or drainage problem. Do you have heavy so
- Deb, I've always found Dutch Iris a bit iffy. They generally

- Spring in the Basement

- Mary, I use one warm flourescent and one cool flourescent and
- Air circulation? General proximity of assorted nasty spores fou
- I know a good fan circulating the air helps in my soggy greenhou
- Carol, What growing medium are you using? I never have a problem
- Mary, I use a mix of peat and vermiculite. I add milled sphagnu
- Carol, Have you tried mixing cinnamon into your potting mixtu
- Carol -- do you start with a fresh clean bag of soil mix each s
- Yes to all of the above. I went through a whole spice jar of cin
- Is an exorcism out of the question? Have you considered Feng Sh
- Exorcism??? Hmmm. Jason Miller, of "The Exorcist" fame, lives d
- Boy, Carol, that is puzzling. I have never had a damping off pr
- Carol, Do you have a gas furnace? Natural gas can cause prob
- Yes, Barb -- as a matter of fact we have a gas furnace -- althou
- Have you considered that the ph of the water you use on the seed
- Thanks for the suggestion, Tom. My water tests perfectly neutral

- Another DIFFERENT Winter!

- Mary, What you're describing sounds normal for here. Well,
- Barb, I know what you mean by variable weather - I have heard
- I guess we've been lucky so far. In the 15 years we've lived her
- I've lost a daffodil and early tulip season only once in twenty
- Cat Wall I'm waiting with bated breath to find out what has b

- Troubleshooting on the Windowsill

- Mary, I just read somewhere that even using light vegetable oil
- Mary, How did you know I have aphids on my Ivy Geraniums?? I
- I am amazed to think someone has aphics inside. I rarely get th
- Diana, My gnat problem this year has been nil. I think it's t
- Carol, The light vegetable oil would work if it could be emulsif
- Mary. As long as we are into home remedies here, can you talk a

- Now What Do I Do?

- I only ever tried to force bulbs once -- but I put them in the r
- It is not really necessary in Aussie to force bulbs but once, I
- Crocus, Gay, or colcichum? I know colcichum will flower even in
- No, definitely crocus. Can't remember which sp., one of the purp

- Thanksgiving in My Garden

- Mary, Plants really do have distinctive personalities, don't th

- On Hold 'til Frost

- Hi Mary, Somehow, you make the fall waiting game sound even m

- Fall Transitions

- My husband thanks you, Mary. Now that you have managed to turn
- Carol, Just be thankful you don't have that greenhouse ready
- Your article really struck home! I remember several, as in more
- There are so many gardening articles out there now, I'm am begin
- Michel, That's a lot of implied questions, but let's see if I c
- Michel -- the get rich quick aspect might be literally covered i
- I am so delighted to hear from you all. Sometimes gardening seem
- I guess that I've made all the horticultural mistakes in the pro
- Mistakes are what we learn from, and I tell my students I have m
- Oh, my, Michel! You planted all kinds of seeds and don't know wh
- Labels, Michel, labels! Labels are good! Mundane but true. Al

- Fall is Coming!

- Hi Mary, Welcome to Suite 101. I'm glad you're here to help
- Hi Mary! Welcome! I'll be reading for sure. Just because we liv
- What I'm dying to hear about are those plants that you've found
- Mary R. Henry USDA 4a Barb, I've had to think about your que
- So your *whole yard* is a microclime? Nice. Please don't tell
- Mary R. Henry USDA 4a Nope! Truth of the matter is I only ha
- Barb --I have that at my house. Plus woods behind me to stop th
- Mary, do you grow a lot of miniature tresures? When I had a tow
- "Just thought I'd make your day." Aaaarrrggghhh! Geeee, than
- Mary R. Henry I love daylilies, so I am exploring the minia
- I'm absolutely wild about Penny's Worth -- it looks like little
- No deer?!? LUCKY YOU!!! I can appreciate the trade-off on spac
- Oh, BOO HOO, Barbara Martin poor thing, is stuck with acres of g
- I first heard of Penny's Worth in the daylily discussion group I
- EC, acreage is a two edged sword. The older I get the less tidy