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Best Companion Garden Flowers
It may sound odd to plants flowers with your herbs and vegetables but they are a must in my garden. Having many different plants in the garden creates bio-diversity. Bio-diversity is necessary for a healthy garden. Flowers can deter pests and shelter beneficial bugs. Strong smelling flowers can also confuse pests that are looking for a particular plant to feed on. Flowers are also so beautiful and pollinators love when I can fit them in. Now lets see what are the best companion garden flowers are my favorite. Bachelors Buttons Bachelor Buttons are great early flowers for pollinators. They are small flowers that come in many colors. Cut fresh flowers…
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Gardening in April (Zone 5)
Gardening in April can be a lot easier when beginning your gardening journey for the first time. All you really need to do is start getting seeds into the ground and begin the fun season of fresh food. Although, if you have a space and light to start seedling indoors, you can get a major head start in the growing season. I like to have indoor and outdoor seeds started as soon as January. By the time I start gardening in April, I already have over 200 seedlings ready to be planted outside. I haven’t always started seeds indoors. In fact, I love to winter sow many seeds. Winter sowing…
