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Growing Rhubarb In Alaska
A customer wrote today asking if it is possible to grow rhubarb in Galena, Alaska. Galena is inland between Nome and Fairbanks and winter temperatures will drop to minus 50 F. I think with care it can...
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Basil-Tomato Salsa
Salsa recipes are versatile and this is one that says Summer! Serve the “Basic Recipe” with chips or crackers. The goat cheese log shown resting on a nest of wild arugula is summer fare. Make the full...
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Find Nichols Garden Nursery
I want all our blog visitors to know we are now on facebook and you tube. http://www.facebook.com/NicholsGardenNursery This is where we comment on gardening and keep you informed about what is...
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Planting The Gardener’s Fall/Winter Pantry
Helen, who does much of our photography planted her fall/winter pantry in early September. It’s 20 feet long and covered in light polyspun row cover. She used 6″ boards. bed is 36″ wide but wanted to...
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Pickled Elephant Garlic
More recipes are needed for Elephant Garlic (purchase) with such a distinctive size and Pickled Elephant Garlic flavor. A member of the leek family, Allium ampeloprasum, it doesn’t seem to produce...
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Forcing Winter Branches Into Bloom
Every New Year I cut branches of shrubs and trees to force into early bloom. Think Spring! Now we have vases and jars of Flowering Quince, Forsythia, Dogwood, Daphne, Hazelnut, and Willow. A branch...
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Talking about Herb Gardening @ awaytogardening.com
Join us atawaytogarden.com in an interview with Margaret Roach at her blog/gardening magazine. Today Nichols Garden Nursery is featured. Keane is holding two fine specimens of Oregon Sweetmeat Squash...
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Hop Shoots Picking & Preparing
Hop shoots are a gardeners’ treat in early spring. Here are photos of them growing by the entry arbor to our herb garden at Nichols Garden Nursery. I snapped off a small bundle of emerging shoots,...
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Sow Peas On Valentines Day
Peas, flat, round, long and short, crisp or tender, these are one of the first vegetables to plant in spring. In many parts of the country Valentine’s Day is traditional for pea planting. I look around...
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Saving Seeds
We are often asked how to store a packet of seed that’s partially used. all our Nichols Garden Nursery seed packets are resealable. But once opened and left lying around germination may reduce in...
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