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Harvesting rose hips. Information on growing, harvesting, and cooking with rose hips. Includes a recipe for rose hip marmalade. Harvesting rose hips. Information on growing, harvesting, and cooking with rose hips. Includes a recipe for rose hip marmalade.

Roses can do more than grace our landscapes and floral designs. Like its cousins the apple, pear, peach and cherry, roses produce a fruit. Rose Hips are a valuable source of vitamin C, containing as much as 20 times more vitamin C than oranges. They are also an excellent antioxidant.   Growing Roses for Hips…

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Growing old fashioned roses, information on growing and caring for old-fashioned or old roses in your flower garden. Growing old fashioned roses, information on growing and caring for old-fashioned or old roses in your flower garden.

In the 18th Century, rose bushes were very common in gardens. These roses were mainly “old roses” and often given as a gift during courtship.   Since the “old roses” were easy to tend, beautiful to admire and highly fragrant, most of these roses conveyed a symbolic gesture that wasn’t often spoken among 18th Century…

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Expert tips for growing tulips. The best time of year to plant tulips, what kind of soil is best for tulips, how deep to plant tulip bulbs, and more. Expert tips for growing tulips. The best time of year to plant tulips, what kind of soil is best for tulips, how deep to plant tulip bulbs, and more.

When people think of tulips, it is not uncommon for them to think of Holland. But the name actually originates in Turkey and a literal translation of the term in Turkish means turban.   No matter who named the tulip, the flowers are some of the most recognizable in the world and remain a favorite…

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Tips for growing watermelons from seed. Where to plant watermelons, how to apply mulch, and common watermelon growing problems solved. Tips for growing watermelons from seed. Where to plant watermelons, how to apply mulch, and common watermelon growing problems solved.

The Watermelon is catalogued to be both a fruit and also a plant from a vine-like herb which originates from Southern Africa. Most watermelons have a green surface with a pink juicy flesh which can at times be red, orange, yellow depending on the type of watermelon or even green if it is not yet…

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