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How Flowering Plants Create Seeds
Starting off a look at seeds: why they're important and how they form in most of the plants in your garden. -
Supporting Mycorrhizal Fungi in Your Soil
What can you do in your garden to protect and encourage the mycorrhizal fungi in your soil? -
Should You Buy Mycorrhizal Inoculants?
They help most of the plants in your garden, but does that mean you should buy more mycorrhizal fungi to add to your soil? -
How Your Garden Benefits from Mycorrhiza
Improving your plants' access to phosphorus and other nutrients is just one of many ways mycorrhizal fungi help your garden. -
How Mycorrhizal Fungi Help Plants Grow
Most of the plants in your garden benefit from a partnership with fungi in the soil -- something we want to protect as gardeners. -
The Flower That Grows Entirely Underground
A look at the very rare and endangered Rhizanthella -- the world's only underground flowers. -
How to Push the Winter Blues Aside
With the holiday season behind us, it's the time of year when gardeners can go a little stir crazy waiting for spring. -
Does Wood Chip Mulch Steal Nitrogen from Your Soil?
You'll hear it said a lot -- and also called a myth. We're skeptical, but trying to find good evidence proved disappointing. -
Nitrogen: The Most Important Nutrient for Your Plants
Plants can't grow without it. And yet, despite the fact that nitrogen is everywhere, plants can still struggle to get enough of it. -
Are Gardeners Happier than Non-Gardeners?
Researchers in Texas found that gardeners score higher in some aspects of life satisfaction -- and stay more physically active.
Two Minutes in the Garden
By Empress of Dirt
Bite-sized informative updates on gardening basics, solutions, myths, news and other subjects of interest to gardeners both new and experienced. From the popular Empress of Dirt website (empressofdirt.net), home of creative and frugal ideas for your backyard garden.
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