Gurney’s Seed and Nursery Blog

Going underground: How I found success with carrots
Carrots Vegetable Seeds

Going underground: How I found success with carrots

With as much as I love carrots- and the bags we eat of them every week- you’d think I’d have...
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Seeds, sets or transplants? How to plant onions.
Vegetable Gardening Vegetable Seeds

Seeds, sets or transplants? How to plant onions.

Onions are supposed to be fool-proof. At least, that was what I was told in the small produce department of...
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Cool-weather cabbage – perfect for early spring!
Spring Gardening

Cool-weather cabbage – perfect for early spring!

Cabbage has always been a cold weather, comfort-food vegetable. Besides soup, one of our family’s favorite brisk winter night meals...
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All about…Broccoli
Broccoli Vegetable Gardening Winter Gardening

All about…Broccoli

True story- last December I harvested Broccoli, in the snow, for Christmas Eve dinner. It was my second year of...
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All About….Asparagus
Asparagus Vegetable Gardening

All About….Asparagus

For Mother’s Day in 2012 I received ten 1-year old Jersey Knight asparagus plants. I was insanely excited as I...
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How Do Beans Grow? A Guide to Growing Beans
Gardening Tips Vegetable Gardening

How Do Beans Grow? A Guide to Growing Beans

Often the very first plants many of us grow from seeds are beans. Preschoolers carefully plant them and water them,...
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Gardening with Kids
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Gardening with Kids

I have a little picture on my office desk of my oldest daughter many years ago, standing in her little...
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Vegetable Gardening

Companion Gardening & Companion Planting

I’d like to share an early gardening memory with you. My grandfather loved homegrown tomatoes, and every summer he had...
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Vegetable Gardening

Square Foot Gardening

Forget rows- it’s time to get square! For many of us, planting a vegetable garden is habit, a process passed...
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Seed Starting with Gurney’s
Vegetable Gardening Vegetable Seeds Winter Gardening

Seed Starting with Gurney’s

As the first snows dust the ground and I pull the last of my harvest from the ground- a stray...
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Fall Gardening Reflections
Fall Gardening Vegetable Seeds

Fall Gardening Reflections

Thanksgiving, for many of us gardeners, is  a time to enjoy the last fruits of our harvest. Squash, beets, broccoli...
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Resources for finding the best plants for your growing zone
Fruit Gardening Tips Spring Gardening Vegetable Gardening

Resources for finding the best plants for your growing zone

Having been raised in the city, nobody taught me how to garden.  When I moved to a home on 4...
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What is a cover crop – and how is it beneficial to your garden?
Winter Gardening

What is a cover crop – and how is it beneficial to your garden?

One of the number one things I don’t like to do is prepare my garden, buying nutrients and soil, tiling...
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Summer Take 2 – Succession Planting for my Fall Bean Harvest
Gardening Tips

Summer Take 2 – Succession Planting for my Fall Bean Harvest

I love this warm weather, full of the great periods of rain that we have been having. It has been...
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Why does my Sweet Corn look like half-popped bubble wrap?
Gardening Tips Vegetable Gardening

Why does my Sweet Corn look like half-popped bubble wrap?

Sweet corn is a signal for me that the summer days are growing shorter, I get excited to pick my first...
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Try Felix’s Black Current Sorbet recipe
Currants Fruit Recipes

Try Felix’s Black Current Sorbet recipe

Felix posted this recipe to our blog a few years ago - a black currant sorbet with a secret ingredient...
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Felix Cooper on Growing Wisteria Vine as a Tree
Gardening Tips

Felix Cooper on Growing Wisteria Vine as a Tree

We recently received a question from a customer about growing tree wisteria. The customer watched our video on how to...
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Vegetables for Kids
Vegetable Gardening

Vegetables for Kids

Jim Carrey must’ve hated vegetables as a kid, maybe he still does, and I bet he reminiscences gulping down a plate-full whenever he’s required to look obnoxious onscreen! I hated most vegetables myself; I’ll bet you did too!
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Lesser known Health Benefits of Spinach
Vegetable Gardening

Lesser known Health Benefits of Spinach

Spinach is one of the world’s most popular green vegetables, thanks largely to one Popeye-the sailor and of course, its amazing nutritional wealth! Spinach is rich in iron, potassium, vitamin A, vitamin K and proteins.
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Introduction to Grafted Tomatoes
Tomatoes

Introduction to Grafted Tomatoes

Grafted tomatoes might just appear bigger than the regular ones, but there’s more to them than their large size- grafted tomatoes are tomatoes with super powers! They have a faster growth rate, great vigor and excellent resistance to diseases.
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