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March 19, 2024
What’s Wrong with My Seedlings?

Common reasons your seedlings may be failing to thrive

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Transplanting Seedlings - Tips for Backyard Growers

Sprouted seedlings need room to grow even before they're garden ready. Transplanting is a delicate process that offers big rewards. Here are a few of our favorite tips.

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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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Our favorite flowers and what they symbolize

 (a cheat sheet for bouquet building)   ‘Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound,” -Edwin Curran   A flower garden brings a bit of...

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Pinetree's Guide to Winter Sowing

Start your seeds outdoors this winter!   Stratification - The process that recreates the temperature conditions that would naturally break a seeds dormancy.     What is winter sowing? Some seeds need a...

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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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Kim's Green Onion Salt Recipe

Our Garden Goddess Kim treated us to some yummy homemade Green Onion Salt this fall.  She used the Parade Bunching Onions we grew in the trial gardens this year and...

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Pinetree's Perfect Pumpkin Bread Recipe

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

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