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May 7, 2010

Garden apps for your smartphone

The New York Times sorts through the hundreds of applications, or "apps" available for your phone that can help you with your home and garden projects and comes up with a list of 20 good ones.

Among those for the garden are Eden Garden Designer, which supplies plant photographs to help you decide what to plant where; Garden Buddy, which calculates how much soil, mulch fertilizer and seed you need for your garden; The Plant Doctor for diagnosing what ails your house plants; the Vegetable Gardening Guide, with tons of information for the beginner and the veteran gardener, and Garden Insects, with home remedies for controlling garden pests.

So far, no app for weeding.

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About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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