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Celebrate Spring with Cool-Season Containers
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Soil Testing is Worth the Effort
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Cool-Season Annuals
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Variegated Plants Create Drama
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Viburnums are Versatile Shrubs
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How to Start a Vegetable Garden
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How to Grow Raspberries
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Sweetly Scented Tulips
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Garden Catalog Collector
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Building a Compost Bin
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Spectacular Spring Bloomers
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All About Starting Seeds
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Make Your Own Hypertufa Container
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Perfect Edges for Your Beds and Borders
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Enchanting Japanese Maples
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10 Perennials Easily Grown from Seed
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Design an Engaging Entryway
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Lilacs: Time for a Fresh Look
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Friendly Ways to Battle Garden Pests
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Find the Perfect Tomato
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A Gardener's Checklist for Early Spring
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15 Deer-Resistant Plants
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Video: Make a Straw-Bale Garden
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The Only Shrubs You Need to Grow
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Backyard Makeover Game
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National Call-Out-Sick-From-Work-To-Stay-Home-And-Pull-Garlic-Mustard-Before-It-Goes-To-Seed Day
4 commentsThis Friday is National Call-Out-Sick-From-Work-To-Stay-Home-And-Pull-Garlic-Mustard-Before-It-Goes-To-Seed Day. So start thinking up your excuses now people, because those things are about to BLOW.
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First Contact
I'm trying to raise a kid that loves being outside and in the dirt as much as I do...
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Yet Another Reason to Love Cactii
I'm moving today, wrapping everything up, including a my plants. The roses were a pain to move, as are the giant soil-filled containers... but you know what's a piece of cake to move?
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An Adult Love Letter to Adult Ivy
1 commentAre you familiar with Adult Ivy? It's more mature and sophisticated, naturally. Here's a slightly naughty love letter that explains its virtues....
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Hey Girl...
2 commentsA few months ago, I noticed this Ryan Gosling meme going around where in each one he says the perfect thing to his fictitious lady love. And I was thinking that gardening just doesn't get enough memes. Or any memes. So I made up a mess of these...
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In the Nick of Time: Winter Pot!
I haven't been home in actual daylight hours to make the pot in front of my house until now. So here it is!
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A Ticking Pine Bomb*
It's the middle of the night. I've just been awakened by a noise, it isn't a loud noise but... I can tell that something isn't right. I get out of bed to check the house- Everything seems in place until... It's our super-dead Christmas tree AUDIBLY losing needles.
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This Birdbath May Be The End Of My Marriage
4 commentsThings have come to a pretty pass, our romance is growing flat. For you like this and the other, while I go for this hot pink squirrel bird bath.
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Kiss My Aster's Gifts for Gardeners Guide 2011
3 commentsI sometimes get asked for my suggestions for gifts for gardeners and I mean, it’s winter, everything is dead. It’s hard to think about something that makes me even more sad about not being out in the dirt that I now have to stare at this gift for another 4 months and not put it to good use. Just give me a box of Frango Mints, completely not garden related but always appropriate, and let’s get on with it already.
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All Dead vs. Slightly Alive
As gardeners, we have all experienced plants coming back from mostly dead-- Then there are plants that are all dead that can be brought back, unnaturally.
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I guess this makes me an Old Wife
1 commentFor as long as I can remember, I've been told that climbing vines, like Boston Ivy and Virginia Creeper, didn't really damage masonry... Well...
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About this blog
Big, loud and fun, Amanda Thomsen landscapes by day and blogs at night. Her blog, Kiss My Aster, has alienated/enraptured dozens for at least 6 years.
She is the less popular half of the podcasting team, Good Enough Gardening, which makes her feel like the "Roy" of of Siegfried and Roy, but without the mauling. She lives in Chicago and does not EVER put ketchup on hot dogs.
