The Urban Permaculture Farm Magazine
For 
The Garden Girl
This year in my spot on the planet, New England, April is off to a chilly start, and we even had a surprise April Fool's Day blizzard! But as the days get longer you can start to see those tell-tale signs of Spring. Trees are budding, crocuses are already in full bloom, and in honor of Spring, my hellebores are blooming...I’ll just be cleaning up in the garden for most of the month and tending to my seedlings which are in full swing. There’s a lot to do out in the garden. Mostly gathering twigs and other debris and pruning old growth from my perennials.
In this issue of
Urban Sustainable Living Magazine
:- The first sign of Spring is when your bulb flowers start to shoot out of the ground. Learn all about an international favorite in the article
The Beautiful Tulip is a World Celebrated Blossom
.- Before you start planting vegetables this year, make sure you're off to a good start with your soil. Find out: Are You Using These
3 Tips For Success With Your Organic Gardening Soil?
- Want to try growing vegetables in a fun, unique way? Try out these
Three Unique Ways to Grow Your Own Potatoes!
This April I'm going to Disney World in Orlando for the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival, so if you're in the area, come by and see me at the HGTV stage!
I’ve also been adding lots of content on my website Garden Girl TV. Please browse the site. Here are some videos that will help you get thru April.
Growing Strawberries
How to Build a Raised Bed
How to Sow Seeds in a Raised Bed
Designing Sustainable and Edible Landscapes
From the Sustainable Home Front,
Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl
Are You Using These 3 Tips For Success With Your Organic Gardening Soil?
Do you really think organic gardening soil is the same as regular garden soil? If so, unfortunately you are sadly mistaken and you have a rude awakening coming your way. That's kind of blunt isn't it? Did I get your attention? I really hope so. The information in this article will help you get a better understanding of the facts about organic gardening soil.
The first misconception most new organic gardeners have about their soil is that anything can grow in any type of soil. All you have to do is throw a few seeds in the ground and boom - you have a natural garden. You need to lose that preconceived notion if it applies to you.
The Beautiful Tulip is a World Celebrated Blossom
Today there exist a truly vast number of individual species of flowers throughout Earth, and still one thing remains true: in terms of lovely petals, few other flowers look quite as lively as the tulip. Tulips hold the place of a flower of Spring and so are praised throughout the Earth as a genuinely top notch flower that continues to give a lot of happiness to many flower fans. Even though these bulbs remain perfect for flower gardeners they are additionally recognized for being a first class gift. Even beyond their affable allure, these flowers often coax a smile to the recipient's face in mere moments because they are quite brightly colorful with a highly attractive set of contours that is easy to recognize.
Three Unique Ways to Grow Your Own Potatoes
It’s that time again gardeners; time to plant potatoes.
The Potato plant is a hardy and versatile plant that produces a lot of food in a small amount of space. Potatoes are formed out of the tuber that grows on the plant. In order for the tuber to grow into a potato it cannot be exposed to light. These tubers grow above the seed potato. In order for potatoes to grow as the plant grows you must mound around the plant to prevent any light getting to the tubers.
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