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Getting Started With Backyard Composting

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Overhead view of yellow fresh-cut flowers in a white vase

Jan 24, 2020

Keep Your Cut Flowers Fresh for Longer

There’s something about fresh flowers that makes any occasion or setting more special. Check out our expert tips that will help make your flowers last longer! 

Oct 11, 2019

Growing Bright and Beautiful Daylilies

Daylilies are popular perennial flowers known for their vivid colors. They’re resilient, easy to grow and will brighten any garden bed — lets get started! 
Close up of farmer hand applying compost fertilizer to a plant in the soil

Sep 13, 2019

Vermicompost Makes Your Garden Grow

You may already know about composting and how you can recycle organic items like foods or leaves into a rich soil. But you may be missing out on a special ingredient: worms! 
Two Monarch butterflies on a white flower

Aug 16, 2019

Growing a Pollinator Garden

Whether you're interested in supporting bee populations, attracting more nature to your yard, or sprucing up your landscape, growing a pollinator garden is a great way to go! 
Numerous fire ants on a piece of wood in front of a blue background

Jul 19, 2019

Controlling Fire Ants in Your Yard

We all know that fire ants are bad news, but how do you spot them? And what can you do to get rid of them? 
A cute little girl holds a freshly picked cucumber from a raised bed garden. Selective focus on the cucumber in the foreground.

Jun 26, 2019

Growing Cucumbers in Your Home Garden

Cucumbers pack a cool, crisp punch as a healthy snack, salad or pickling project. We'll show you how easy it is to grow your own! 
Pink rhododendron flowers

May 23, 2019

Growing Rhododendrons in North Carolina

Rhododendrons grace the mountains with colorful flowers, but new heat-tolerant varieties make it possible to grow this garden beauty across North Carolina. 
Harvested peas still in the pod are displayed in small boxes for market.

Mar 14, 2019

Growing Snow Peas and Sugar Snaps

Peas are a staple in every southern kitchen, and many different varieties can be grown right here in North Carolina. Learn more about sugar snaps and snow peas! 
A blue garden trowel filled with soil is resting on a table

Feb 28, 2019

Tips for Starting a Container Garden

Who said a backyard was required for gardening? You can grow potatoes on your porch or strawberries on your stoop with a container garden - find out how. 
Materials used for composting, including a rain barrel, pitchfork and leftover produce, are collected together

Jan 17, 2019

Getting Started With Backyard Composting

Composting is a natural way of recycling organic material like vegetables, leaves and egg shells into a rich soil. Dig in to learn more!