Beautiful Easy Organic Gardens

Beautiful Easy Organic Gardens contains information on how to have a beautiful organic vegetable garden, perennial garden and herb garden, how to have a natural organic lawn, how to water, fertilize, control deer, insects and diseases organically. Beautiful Easy Organic Gardens is written by Laurence Sombke the author of Beautiful Easy Flower Gardens and Beautiful Easy Lawns and Landscapes, the garden blogger for the Times Union, a garden and landscape consultant and speaker and radio host.

Friday, January 12, 2007

Soil pH for Blueberries

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Brian of Glenville writes: I will be planting some blueberry bushes this spring. The Cornell site says it needs to be acid soil. Can I test ...
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Monday, January 08, 2007

Bittersweet vine control

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A nice young person from Holyoke, MA writes: We have an area of bittersweet, brushy growth and trees between our driveway and the neighbors...
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Friday, January 05, 2007

Poison Ivy Control

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Alan in Catskill writes: We moved on to a property with extensive poison ivy. I tried a little Roundup, but was concerned about doing in th...

Warm Winter Weather

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Eric in Saratoga County writes: Larry, just a question: with this unseasonably warm weather, my daffodils are showing at the soil surface. ...
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Thursday, November 02, 2006

Tipsy Paperwhite Daffodils

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It is often a problem finding ways to keep your forced paperwhite daffodils from growing so tall they tip over and ruin the effect. Here is ...
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Friday, October 13, 2006

Don't Buy Cypress Mulch

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Mulch Madness By STEVE FLEISCHLI TOWERING cypress once covered much of southern Louisiana — 1,000-year-old trees darkened ancient, moss-lade...
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Monday, June 19, 2006

Great Peony Mystery

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Last week on Vox Pop a caller told of a "wild" peony plant that came up on its own near the peony plants she planted a few years a...
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Plants to Grow Near Black Walnut Trees

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Black walnut trees (Juglans nigra L.) are beautiful and useful trees of the forest and often suburban neighborhoods. But the tree does give ...
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Friday, June 02, 2006

Great Northeast Fruit Trees

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Recently on Vox Pop on Northeast Public Radio/WAMC, a caller from New Hampshire was getting ready to plant his first fruit tree orchard and ...
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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Larry Speaking Summer 2006

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I will be speaking to a variety of groups this spring and summer. I would be happy if you came by to say hello. Saturday, June 17th, 7 p.m. ...
Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Planting a Salsa and Gazpacho Garden

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Summer is that sultry garden time when the oozingly ripe tomatoes and cucumbers are hanging on the vine, when the hot and sweet peppers are ...
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Friday, May 12, 2006

Gardening in Containers

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Containers are the city gardener's very best friend. With pots, planters and window boxes made of terra cotta, wood, plastic or metal sm...
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Thursday, May 04, 2006

Things to Do in the Garden This Week

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Before we get to the work list, let me tell you about what's blooming in my garden right now. In the new woodland garden, the hellebores...
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Beautiful Easy Roses

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A lot of people don't grow roses because these beautiful blooming shrubs have a well-earned reputation for being fussy. They are attract...
Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Ingrained Ignorance

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This may not exactly be a gardening article, but it is about turf grass and by golly it is about golf. Reprinted with permission from Turf M...
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Friday, April 07, 2006

Things to do in the Garden This Week

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It is early spring here in the Northeast and in my garden at least I can see tulips, and daffodils peeping through (in fact, the daffodils a...

Welcome to My New Garden Blog

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Hi. I'm Larry Sombke, host of Northeast Public Radio's "Gardening with Larry Sombke" heard every other Thursday at 2:00 p....
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Larry Sombke
I am a landscape consultant and designer, author and award-winning radio host.I am available for speaking engagements and landscape consultations. Contact me at: sombke@beautifuleasygardens.com.
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