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April 23, 2024
Pinetree's Guide to Seed Starting

Seed starting is where you plant your seeds indoors in the spring to give them a jump start on the growing season, so you can grow earlier and get your...

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Digging deeper into seed starting

Digging a little deeper into seed starting: scarification, stratification, and soaking.

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Ten Tasks To Prepare Your Garden for Winter—and Give You an Early Start to Spring

All around the Pinetree Garden Seed headquarters in rural Maine, we are already seeing sparks of red and yellow here and there among the trees. Cold weather comes earlier this...

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Pinetree's Perfect Pumpkin Bread Recipe

This Pumpkin Bread recipe is perfectly moist, balanced and buttery 🍞

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How To Plant Fall Flower Bulbs (with Video!)

A guide to overwintering your fall flower bulbs.

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Roasted Pumpkin and Farro Salad

A Roasted Pumpkin and Farro Salad with Bleu Cheese and Maple Vinaigrette🎃  

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Make your own Vinaigrette with Chef Jef's guide to the basics!

Mastering a basic vinaigrette recipe is super easy and a great and economical way to add flavor to salads as well as lots of other dishes and also a great...

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The Ultimate Gardening Guide: Basic Gardening Tips for Beginners from Pinetree Garden Seeds Customers

We asked the thousands of home gardeners in our Facebook group what they wish they had known before they dug into a lifetime of gardening. The result? A bumper crop...

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One to Grow On: What to Plant in a Baby Food Garden

If you have a little one that will be weaning or adding solid foods soon, you know you want to feed them the safest, most nutritious and delicious foods possible....

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