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Enjoy outdoors activities like gardening, camping, hiking and more? This section is for you! These articles contain the latest local outdoors news and entertainment from around the Waynedale (Fort Wayne), Indiana area.
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Written by Doug Hackbarth
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Friday, March 23 2012 |
It is agreed that buying certified seed potatoes is best to help avoid any potato diseases or viruses that could be present in regular store-bought potatoes. These viral problems can get established in your garden soil and cause problems to re-occur for many future years to come. Store-bought potatoes are usually treated with chemicals to keep the potato "eyes" from growing so that they last longer in your storage area.
After you purchase your potatoes there is no real need to hurry and plant t ...
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Written by Slim Randle
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Friday, March 23 2012 |
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The garden catalogs start coming out when the snow is too deep to even find dirt. But we don't care. This is a catalog time of year, a time for making plans and figuring out how to do something even better than we did last year. There in the fishing catalog is that new fly-tying vise. I know I'll be able to tie flies faster and better with that, which will give me more time to cruise up and down Lewis Creek with the fly rod. Well ... at least that's the plan.
And the housewares catalog has all ...
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Written by Doug Hackbarth
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Friday, March 09 2012 |
St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner so many of you will be looking to buy a shamrock plant, i.e. oxalis plant. Oxalis is grown from tiny bulbuls, which rapidly re-develop underground and continue to grow year after year, making it a perennial. Sometimes, if you get ahold of the wrong variety of oxalis, such as wood sorrel, you may get an invasive plant that will take over your garden and be almost impossible to kill. Try growing them in containers instead of planting them directly into t ...
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Friday, March 09 2012 |
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Life is kinda like a corrugated, washboard ranch road, I believe. Give anything enough time and experience and warts and scars and grooves will get worn in it. The down times and the up times, and the way they tend to alternate can lead to a corrugation in our dirt roads and our lives.
Any good cowboy knows how to handle a washboard road, though. Taken slowly, a pickup truck hits each little dip and rattles its carburetor until it puts a kink in the distributor clamp. It takes forever to get so ...
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Friday, March 09 2012 |
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Little River Wetlands Project, a local nature organization protecting almost 1,200 acres of natural and restored wetlands near Fort Wayne and Huntington, offers interesting and informative nature events this March. All are free and open to the community.
Wednesday, March 77:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m."Invasive Species Inspector Training, Part 1"Meet at the Aboite Library, 5630 Coventry LaneThis is an advanced training for people who want to help track invasive plant species at LRWP preserves.(Part 2 i ...
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Written by Doug Hackbarth
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Friday, February 24 2012 |
Ever since December, I have been telling folks not to worry about the warm winter weather. It will get cold soon and all of your plants will be fine. That is still true, we will get extreme cold weather at some point but in the meanwhile, it may be necessary to go out and water your shrubs. I have some that are in pots, not in the ground and I have watered them 4 times already. Fertilizer is definitely not needed.
Spraying your outside plants is always a good idea during any warmer-than-normal ...
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