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Scheduling the Fall Garden

Scheduling the Fall Garden

When planning your fall garden, you first need to write down two dates: the date when there is a 50% chance of a light frost (32*F) and the date when...

Scheduling the Fall Garden

When planning your fall garden, you first need to write down two dates: the date when there is a 50% chance of a light frost (32*F) and the date when...

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Flowers to Plant Now, Enjoy This Summer

Flowers to Plant Now, Enjoy This Summer

  Many of summer’s best flowers are easily started from seed about 6-8 weeks before warm weather arrives. Seed-grown flowers save you money compared to buying plants. And our generous...

Flowers to Plant Now, Enjoy This Summer

  Many of summer’s best flowers are easily started from seed about 6-8 weeks before warm weather arrives. Seed-grown flowers save you money compared to buying plants. And our generous...

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All About Lettuce

All About Lettuce

At Seeds from Italy, we sell 30 varieties of lettuce and five salad mixes that contain lettuce. Sometimes customers will ask “What’s your best lettuce?” That’s like asking “What’s the...

All About Lettuce

At Seeds from Italy, we sell 30 varieties of lettuce and five salad mixes that contain lettuce. Sometimes customers will ask “What’s your best lettuce?” That’s like asking “What’s the...

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Five Steps to Planning Your Garden

Five Steps to Planning Your Garden

Planning the garden is a winter ritual that brings pleasure to experienced gardeners. Just a few hours of planning and plotting now will ensure that you are ready to go...

Five Steps to Planning Your Garden

Planning the garden is a winter ritual that brings pleasure to experienced gardeners. Just a few hours of planning and plotting now will ensure that you are ready to go...

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Italian Seed Varieties By Place Name

Italian Seed Varieties By Place Name

Italy is a vast country with a varied climate and has the culinary diversity to prove it. Each region is famous for its own specialties, many of which would not...

Italian Seed Varieties By Place Name

Italy is a vast country with a varied climate and has the culinary diversity to prove it. Each region is famous for its own specialties, many of which would not...

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Tips for Fall Gardening Success

Tips for Fall Gardening Success

Fall can be the most invigorating time in the garden -- for many vegetables as well as gardeners! Cool-loving crops like lettuce, spinach, kale, broccoli, and chicory take on their...

Tips for Fall Gardening Success

Fall can be the most invigorating time in the garden -- for many vegetables as well as gardeners! Cool-loving crops like lettuce, spinach, kale, broccoli, and chicory take on their...

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When to harvest winter squash

When to harvest winter squash

Winter squash and pumpklns require a large investment of garden space and time, but reward the gardener with sweet, delicious, vitamin-rich fruits that hold well into fall and winter. For...

When to harvest winter squash

Winter squash and pumpklns require a large investment of garden space and time, but reward the gardener with sweet, delicious, vitamin-rich fruits that hold well into fall and winter. For...

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Preserve your herbs in butter and oil

Preserve your herbs in butter and oil

Many culinary herbs love cool weather — and when summer hits, they bolt (go to seed) or get tough and lose their delicate flavor. That’s why early summer is the...

Preserve your herbs in butter and oil

Many culinary herbs love cool weather — and when summer hits, they bolt (go to seed) or get tough and lose their delicate flavor. That’s why early summer is the...

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Pollination Problems

Pollination Problems

A male squash flower produces ample pollen; it just needs a bee to carry it to a female flower for pollination to occur.Every summer, we hear from a few people...

Pollination Problems

A male squash flower produces ample pollen; it just needs a bee to carry it to a female flower for pollination to occur.Every summer, we hear from a few people...

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Growing a late crop of tomatoes

Growing a late crop of tomatoes

Getting early tomatoes is a kind of a game for most gardeners; we start our seeds inside in winter, surround young plants with plastic or water walls, warm the soil with...

Growing a late crop of tomatoes

Getting early tomatoes is a kind of a game for most gardeners; we start our seeds inside in winter, surround young plants with plastic or water walls, warm the soil with...

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When to start seeds indoors

When to start seeds indoors

Here is a schedule for starting seeds indoors, relative to your frost-free date. It assumes you will have good indoor seed-starting conditions so that seeds germinate fast and grow quickly....

When to start seeds indoors

Here is a schedule for starting seeds indoors, relative to your frost-free date. It assumes you will have good indoor seed-starting conditions so that seeds germinate fast and grow quickly....

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How to schedule outdoor plantings

How to schedule outdoor plantings

Vegetables vary in their tolerance to cold, so gardeners generally use the frost-free date as the benchmark for scheduling outdoor plantings. Some cold-tolerant veggies can be planted weeks before the...

How to schedule outdoor plantings

Vegetables vary in their tolerance to cold, so gardeners generally use the frost-free date as the benchmark for scheduling outdoor plantings. Some cold-tolerant veggies can be planted weeks before the...

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Give seeds what they need

Give seeds what they need

Starting seeds indoors is one of the best parts of gardening. You get to work with plants long before spring, and there is nothing more satisfying that watching seedlings push...

Give seeds what they need

Starting seeds indoors is one of the best parts of gardening. You get to work with plants long before spring, and there is nothing more satisfying that watching seedlings push...

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Fall is the time for salads

Fall is the time for salads

We had a tremendous summer garden this year and we ate our fill of zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and basil. As the days shorten and the nights turn chilly, we...

Fall is the time for salads

We had a tremendous summer garden this year and we ate our fill of zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and basil. As the days shorten and the nights turn chilly, we...

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Success with Zucchetta

Success with Zucchetta

We recently asked our customers to tell us about their favorite zucchini varieties. Quite a few people mentioned two varieties that technically aren't zucchini at all — they are known...

Success with Zucchetta

We recently asked our customers to tell us about their favorite zucchini varieties. Quite a few people mentioned two varieties that technically aren't zucchini at all — they are known...

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Three Types of Arugula

Three Types of Arugula

Arugula is one of those typically Italian vegetables that has become mainstream in America. And for good reason. It's a delicious green, with a lot more flavor than lettuce, plus...

Three Types of Arugula

Arugula is one of those typically Italian vegetables that has become mainstream in America. And for good reason. It's a delicious green, with a lot more flavor than lettuce, plus...

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