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News 4 Your Sunday: Gardening
News4’s Pat Lawson Muse spoke with City Blossoms Executive Director Rafael Woldeab and U.S. Botanic Garden Senior Education Specialist Lee Coykendall.
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4 Your Home: Fall Gardening Tips for City Dwellers
Now is the perfect time to plant garlic, kale and collard greens for spring. D.C. gardener and garden consultant Dominique Charles has tips on fertilizer, saving seeds and turning coffee bean bags into planters.
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Op-Ed: Sometimes It's Just Worth Paying Someone to Handle Various Tasks and Chores
If you can afford to hire someone to perform some services for you, you can see benefits ranging from better health to more free time.
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Tips on How to Grow Food in Your Own Garden
When starting your home garden, listen to Dominique Charles, owner of Plots and Plants. Charles gives a few tips on how to grow your own food in your backyard. News4’s Erika Gonzalez reports.
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American University's Gardening Club Gains Popularity
All of the produce is grown organically and available to students at American University. News4’s Megan McGrath reports.
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Save Food Scraps and Compost Them! Here's How
What 2 R’s come before recycling? Reducing and reusing! Composting your coffee grounds, egg shells and more are one way to reuse things that you might have thrown away otherwise. Lauren Clarke from Dallas-based Turn Compost explains what you need to know to get started composting today.
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Gardeners Beware! It's Too Early for Planting Certain Plants
News4’s Megan McGrath explains why it’s a bit too early to plant certain flowers in the garden.
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The Ubiquitous Orchid: a Pandemic Project With Surprises
Orchid flowers can last for weeks. Once the flowers die, it’s tempting to toss the plant. But you can get that $10 orchid to bloom again. Just be patient. It might take a year. The main tip for growing orchids is not to overwater them.
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This Woman is Growing 1,100 Plants in Her Brooklyn Apartment
A Brooklyn woman wanted to help conserve some of the endangered plants of the world and beautify her own home at the same time. So she started growing plants in her apartment… and now has 1,100 of them. Yusuf Omar of Hashtag Our Stories takes us inside an extreme green home.
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Plant Parenthood: How to Turn Your Home Into an Urban Jungle
News 4’s Erika Gonzalez talks with a D.C. flower shop owner about how to care for your house plants.
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Here's How to Get Your Lawn Ready for Fall
The pandemic has many spending more time in the yard gardening and doing other projects. News4’s Erika Gonzalez shows us how to keep lawns looking pretty this fall.
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Fall Gardening: Keep Your Curb Appeal on Point With These Tips
It’s getting cooler, but contrary to what you might think, autumn is actually a great time to plant.
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Fall Gardening: DC Expert Shares How to Choose and Care for Flowers This Autumn
The air is noticeably cooler and signs of fall, including chrysanthemums and pansies, are making their seasonal debut. September is the optimal time to purchase mums. Isaiah Weinstein is with Seasonal Celebrations and runs the pop-up shop on Massachusetts Avenue outside St. Sophia’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Northwest D.C. “When you’re looking for mums, you want to get them...
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Mums and Pansies: Choosing and Taking Care of Fall Flowers
We may be in the midst of a pandemic, so getting your hands dirty and improving your home or garden might be the best thing you can do. News4’s Erika Gonzalez talks to an expert about how to care for some of her favorite fall flowers.
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Exploring the Wellness-Boosting Effects of Gardening with ASMR
NBCLX’s Fernando Hurtado explains the wellness benefits of gardening using ASMR.
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Gardening Takes Off in DC Area During Social Distancing
Many people are gardening as they practice social distancing. “My garden has never been prettier,” one local with a green thumb said. News4’s Megan McGrath takes a look at Greenstreet Gardens.
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Quarantine Gardening: Grow What You Like
The coronavirus pandemic has many Americans growing their own food for their first time. Experts say now is the perfect time to plant vegetables for a bountiful harvest. NBC’s Dan Scheneman reports.
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What to Plant Now
Storm Team4 Meteorologist Amelia Draper reports on what you can plant in your garden now and what you should wait to plant when the weather changes.