Category Archives: Garden

Container Garden Chronicles: Five signs you might be a gardener

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Jess Krout

It’s two months into the planting season, and I couldn’t be more focused on my new-found gardening life. Here are five signs: 1. My fingernails are black. Sure, I bought gardening gloves, but my fingers feel clumsy in them as … Continue reading →

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Corn muffins and gardening galore this weekend

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Sarah Chain

Whether your weekend is jam-packed or free as can be, here are a few things to consider: If you haven’t started your seeds yet (or if your first attempt was a bit of a failure, as mine was), try these … Continue reading →

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Container Garden Chronicles: Master Gardeners dig into spring

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Jess Krout

After chatting with Penn State Master Gardener PK Dennis on gardening basics and how to transplant seedlings, she suggested I check out a group of York County Master Gardeners, who meet Mondays and Thursdays at John C. Rudy County Park. … Continue reading →

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Container Garden Chronicles:
Growing zombies in the garden

Posted on April 5, 2012 by April Trotter

Relax, we’re not trying to cultivate any flesh-eating corpses. And I’m pretty sure there’s nothing we can grow in our container garden that will save us from the impending zombie apocalypse. We might, however, try to resurrect some of our … Continue reading →

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Container Garden Chronicles: How and when to transplant seedlings (round 2 with Master Gardener PK Dennis)

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Jess Krout

Two weeks ago, the Container Garden Chronicles crew headed to downtown York in search of containers for transplanting our seedlings. (April Trotter blogged to tell the tale.) We’re pretty pumped to see plants growing (especially Sarah Chain, who, earlier, was … Continue reading →

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Pennsylvania Herb and Garden Festival offers inspiration

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Sarah Chain

I’m getting pretty excited for our container garden here at Smart. (You can catch up with our progress so far through the Container Garden Chronicles.) But I have to keep reminding myself that I’m a gardening newbie — and I … Continue reading →

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Container Garden Chronicles: Practicing patience

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Sarah Chain

I can be fairly neurotic when I get nervous. Case in point: I recently watched my 10-year-old brother play in a basketball game. His teammates and opponents were throwing elbows, tripping over their own feet, running into one another and … Continue reading →

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Container garden chronicles: Containing our garden

Posted on March 26, 2012 by April Trotter

Last week, members of the container garden crew went on a quest to find containers for our container garden. I was already called out on my plan to get a late start on my garden. In my defense, this is … Continue reading →

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Spring = garden

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Stephanie Reighart

Despite my best efforts to properly mourn the winter-that-never-was, I found myself genuinely happy, more than once this week, digging in my backyard garden. I’ve never been a fan of summer; all that inescapable heat and humidity makes my blood … Continue reading →

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The Container Garden Chronicles on YDR Insider

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Kara Eberle

Earlier this week, I introduced the Container Garden Chronicles on YDR Insider, the blog where you can get all the behind-the-scenes details about the York Daily Record/Sunday News in York, PA. The post talks about how the idea for the … Continue reading →

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