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Roots and Shoots

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Roots and Shoots: Designing a New Garden, Part 2

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan September 19, 2018September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Ecological value … but also lovely

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Roots and Shoots: Designing a New Garden

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan August 22, 2018September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

With experience, it’s more difficult, not easier

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Roots and Shoots: Blooms in the Shadows

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan July 25, 2018September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

There is a lot to appreciate about shady spots

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Roots and Shoots: Weeding? Protect Your Soil

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan July 2, 2018September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Digging, exposing and tilling may not be good strategy

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Roots and Shoots: Gardening for a Better Future

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan June 13, 2018September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Visions of a low-carbon-footprint landscape

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Roots and Shoots: A Garden in a Bale

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan May 23, 2018September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Low-cost alternative to raised beds

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Roots and Shoots: Gardening for the Planet

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Simple tips to help save the planet

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Roots and Shoots: Five Years of Plants and Friends

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan April 4, 2018September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Lessons I’ve learned, and inspirations I’ve met

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Roots and Shoots: Plant Breeding at Home

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Most organic produce doesn’t start with an organic seed

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Roots and Shoots: Tech in the Garden

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There’s an app for that

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Roots and Shoots: On Common Rodents and Lost Habitat

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Resolutions for the gardener

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Roots and Shoots: Gardener Gift Guide

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Great finds for green thumbs

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Roots and Shoots: End of Season Notes

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan November 21, 2017September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

What you can still do (and not do) in your landscape

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Roots and Shoots: Learning from Experiencing

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan November 1, 2017September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Lessons from a walk in the park

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Roots and Shoots: The Annual Fall Drought

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan October 4, 2017September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

It is official: I’m sick of watering

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Roots and Shoots: Plant It and They Will Come

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan September 14, 2017September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Lessons on coexisting

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Roots and Shoots: The Monarchs Arrive!

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan August 24, 2017September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

What happens when you are pollinator-friendly

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Roots and Shoots: From Mess to Mounds

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan August 2, 2017September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

My yard was in shambles. Here’s what I did about it.

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Roots and Shoots: What to Feed the Food?

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan July 3, 2017September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Making sense of fertilizer

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Roots and Shoots: It’s Gypsy Moth Season

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Here’s what to do to protect your trees

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Roots and Shoots: What to Do in the Garden Now

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan May 13, 2017September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Final frost date approaches on May 15

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Roots and Shoots: Know Your Seeds

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan April 22, 2017September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

The four types, and what you should be planting

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Roots and Shoots: Deer Resistant? Well, Maybe

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan April 5, 2017September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

“All bets are off when they’re starving”

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Roots and Shoots: Signs of Spring

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan March 4, 2017September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Planning for three-season color

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Roots and Shoots: Plant Sales? Now?

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan February 15, 2017September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

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