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Make your own self-watering grow bucket
In the blink of an eye, last week Hands On Harvests and the Fairfax County Master Gardeners gave out 32 tomato plants in self-watering...

Stacey Evers
Jun 17, 20231 min read
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Cómo cultivar verduras en una bolsa de cultivo
escrito por Jim Howland traducido por Josué Palacios
Jim Howland
Apr 6, 20231 min read
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Jim Howland
Apr 6, 20230 min read
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Extending your growing season into winter
by Jim Howland, lifetime gardener and technical education teacher at Falls Church High School. His engineering students will start...
Jim Howland
Oct 17, 20222 min read
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It's Gardening Thyme: A Beginners Guide to Apartment Gardening
Hands On Harvests was asked to be part of this blog post from Redfin, sharing gardening tips with apartment and other small-space...

Stacey Evers
Jun 17, 20225 min read
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Nowhere to go but up: growing big harvests in small spaces
Successful small-space gardening tips from Casandra Lawson, who's mastered the art. Meet Casandra for a free talk and tour of her...

Stacey Evers
May 4, 20224 min read
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6 steps to starting your garden with seed blocks
No yogurt cups. No peat pots. Not even eggshell cartons. The only things Hands On Harvests' master seed starter George E uses to get his...

Stacey Evers
Mar 21, 20221 min read
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Top 10 items for your seed-starting set-up
Seed-starting can be cheap and easy. Pick up tips on equipment from Hands On Harvests mentor and Master Gardener Lori Krishnan.

Lori Krishnan
Feb 21, 20226 min read
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Saving tomato seeds with a nifty science experiment
Want to save tomato seeds but don't know how? Let this Grow a Row family of volunteers show you! The kids provide masterful narration and...

Stacey Evers
Nov 11, 20211 min read
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Fall garden advice from an expert
It's the veggie gardener's autumn dilemma: Keep the tomatoes for a little bit longer or remove them? Remove them, says US Botanic Garden...

Stacey Evers
Oct 8, 20213 min read
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8 Easy Tips for Growing and Curing Garlic
12 lbs of garlic grown by Lori in the school garden she maintains. by Lori Krishnan 1) Garlic needs full sun. Don't bother placing your...

Lori Krishnan
Jun 14, 20212 min read
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Here today, tarragon tomorrow
Peggy Riccio, president of the Potomac Unit of the Herb Society of America, gave Grow a Row FC a literal car full of herbs dug up from...

Stacey Evers
Apr 17, 20212 min read
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1st donation to Food for Others: Done!
THANK YOU to Grow a Row FC volunteers! We delivered our first donation of fresh, healthy (and gorgeous!) produce to Food for Others this...

Stacey Evers
Jun 6, 20201 min read
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Grow a Row FC: Gardening for the common good
Several years ago, a class of 5th graders and I created a Victory Garden at the school where I teach environmental education. We all were...

Stacey Evers
May 18, 20201 min read
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