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Charlie’s Mid March Newsletter

  All About Pruning: Webinar, Videos, Podcasts, and Articles    March is known for being a fickle month weather wise. We've had snow storms and 70F days already this month and it's not over yet! But one garden chore you can do, regardless of the weather, is pruning. Lots of gardeners get intimidated by pruning and often don't do enough or do nothing at all. It is important to prune certain trees and shrubs this time of year and I show you all the details in my webinar, How to Prune Trees and Shrubs. Learn more about that webinar...

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Charlie’s Mid May Newsletter

    Container Gardening: Webinar, Video and Stories     May is the gardening month in many parts of the country, but for those with little space to garden the options are limited. Luckily, there is Container Gardening. With new types of pots, dwarf varieties, flowers that bloom all season without deadheading and even trees and shrubs that fit in pots, you can grow almost anything in a container. This newsletter is dedicated to those container gardeners out there who are looking for new ideas for containers, different...

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Charlie’s Mid May Newsletter

  All About Vegetable Gardening: Webinars, Videos, Podcasts, and Articles   May in our zone 5 garden is all about getting the vegetables planted. In Vermont we have this short window to get cool and warm season vegetables into the ground. It's a mad dash, but somehow it always works out. There are tips and techniques that will make the vegetable gardening easier and more fun. That's why I wrote this newsletter. I start with two popular webinars I've done recently. The first is based on my new book, The Continuous Vegetable Garden and,...

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Charlie’s Mid November Newsletter

  Fall Gardening & Plant Protection: Webinar, Podcasts, and Articles      It's stick season our new neck of the woods. That means the deciduous leaves and needles have dropped, but the snows have yet to show up. I was going to send this newsletter out next week, but the weather is shifting quickly to cold and snow in the North, so I thought it would be more timely to send this newsletter now. November is all about planting the last of your spring flowering bulbs and garlic, protecting a variety of tender plants from...

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Charlie’s Mid October Newsletter

    All About Bulbs: Webinar, Videos, and Articles    October is spring flowering bulb and garlic planting month. Usually I'd have planted everything by now in our zone 5 garden, but because of the warm, dry fall, I'm waiting a few more weeks until the cooler weather and rains come. Plus, I'm still waiting for some of my bulb orders to arrive! So now is the time to have a plan for planting. To help, I'm highlighting my webinar, Growing Bulbs, to give you options for planting spring flowering bulbs in your yard, garden or...

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Charlie’s Mid September Newsletter

        Fall Gardening Chores: Webinars, Podcasts and Stories     The calendar may have turned to September, but our warm days continue. I returned from my Gardens of Scotland tour only to find the vegetables and flowers still going strong and needing some water. Luckily my wife, Wendy, was home to keep the gardens growing. But fall is right around the corner so I thought to help us get ready for winter I'd offer a webinar and some videos and article about fall gardening. I highlight my webinar. Fall Gardening...

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Charlie’s Newsletter for Early September

    Berries for the Birds, Russian Sage, Sunflower Fun, and Harvesting Winter Squash    The calendar has turned to September in our zone 5 garden, but not much else has changed. The days are sunny, we're finally getting some much needed rain, the temperatures are still warm during the day, yet cool at night, the flowers and veggies are still producing and the insects have moved on. Yes, it is one of my favorite times of the year. One of our fun activities this time of year is watching the birds. We have lots of bird friendly...

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Charlie’s Newsletter for Late August

  Hardy Hibiscus, Preserving Those Tomatoes, Fall Spinach and Watering   Many areas of the country, including our Vermont garden, are experiencing abnormally dry or drought conditions. This amazes me because a month or two ago we were complaining about all the rain. Then Mother Nature turned off the spigot and we have very dry conditions. So, it's important to water your trees, shrubs, perennials and late summer planted veggies and flowers well. I talk about some watering strategies in this newsletter. Late summer can be a...

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Last Call for Webinar

  Last Call! The Continuous Vegetable Garden Webinar   My new book, The Continuous Vegetable Garden, is out and available in bookstores and on-line. But to really get an understanding of what Continuous Vegetable Gardening is all about, come to my webinar this coming Tuesday evening (2/10) at 6pm. This is the last call to sign up for my webinar as I'll be stopping registrations on Tuesday morning. If you can't make it on Tuesday evening, no problem. I'll be recording the webinar and everyone who signs up will get the recording to...

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NEW WEBINAR: The Continuous Vegetable Garden

  NEW WEBINAR: The Continuous Vegetable Garden   I'm excited to announce I'm offering a NEW WEBINAR based on my new book, The Continuous Vegetable Garden. The live webinar event will be held on Tuesday, February 10th at 6pm eastern time. BUT, I will record the webinar, so everyone who signs up will get the recording. That means you don't have to be present to get all the great information about Continuous Vegetable Gardening. This webinar is all about how you can help your garden "grow and sow itself." Following the patterns in...

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