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National Gardening Lynn Ocone |
Bird Feeder Basics How to attract the most birds to your winter garden  |
National Gardening Dan Hickey |
Feeder Frenzy There's a huge flock of bird feeders. Which will bring the most birds to your winter garden?  |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Second Harvest July is the perfect month to start thinking about the fall garden. Many of the vegetables you've enjoyed from the garden this spring and early summer can be grown and harvested this fall as well.  |
National Gardening Bill Thompson III |
The Birds of Winter For a lively winter garden, make it bird friendly  |
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Whiteflies Found throughout the United States. These tiny, insects feed in large numbers on leaf undersides of tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, and other plants by sucking out plant juices.  |
Seasoned Cooking November 2007 Philip R. Gantt |
How to Roast Sunflower Seeds Homemade roasted sunflower seeds are nothing like the type you might purchase in a bag at the grocery store. Here's how to roast them to perfection.  |
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Powdery Mildew This fungus disease occurs all over the North America and infects a wide variety of plants, including beans, cucurbits, lettuce, and peas. A powdery white growth covers the upper surface of leaves, which eventually turn yellow and dry.  |
National Gardening Dan Hickey |
Welcoming Winter Birds Choose the right seed to attract your favorite birds  |
National Gardening Kathy Bond Borie |
Seed Catalog Savvy Reading between the lines to find the best varieties for your garden...  |
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Getting Started With Perennials First, we dispel a common myth: You don't need to be an expert gardener to grow perennials. Then we answer a few common questions about perennials.  |
Seasoned Cooking June 2007 Philip R. Gantt |
Garden Fresh If you have never grown sunflowers, they are very easy to grow and do well in relatively poor soil as well as rich soil... Recipe: Roasted Sunflower Seeds...  |
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Fall Garden Cleanup Q and A Here are some questions we've received about fall cleanup in the garden, along with the answers given by our regional horticulture staff.  |
This Old House Therese Ciesinski |
Check out These Seeds From Your Local Library Of the roughly 17,000 public libraries across the country, about 350 are now "lending" seeds, up from just a handful 15 years ago.  |
National Gardening Carolyn Male |
Tomato Diseases Forewarned is forearmed: how to read your tomato leaves.  |
National Gardening Lynn Ocone |
Landscaping ... For the Birds How to plan a bird-friendly garden  |
This Old House Tabitha Sukhai |
Draw Birds and Butterflies to Your Yard Encourage butterflies to come to your place and stay awhile with these easy habitat gardening tips.  |
National Gardening Lynn Byczynski |
Organic Flower Farming Growing cut flowers for farmers' markets.  |
National Gardening April 2000 Barbara Pleasant |
Balloon Flower Easy to grow, reliable, looks great as a border -- and it's blue  |
National Gardening Lynn Ocone |
Planning a Vegetable Garden How to design and build a vegetable garden that really works  |
This Old House Kathryn Keller |
Little Green Thumbs When it comes to gardening, kids can't wait to dig in. Here are some ideas to help them get growing.  |
This Old House Therese Ciesinsk |
How to Save Seeds You can't return "borrowed" seeds without harvesting and drying them first. All it takes is a few simple steps.  |
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Maintaining a Vegetable Garden Healthy, vigorous vegetable plants produce the most flavorful and bountiful harvests. Give your garden plants the moisture and nutrients they need, and keep them weeded and harvested for tasty and nutritious crops.  |
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Choosing Tomato Varieties Healthy, vigorous tomato vines can produce a lot of fruit. But of the thousands of varieties available, how do you narrow your choices?  |
DailyCandy May 8, 2006 |
Peaches & Herb AeroGarden is a self-contained nursery that allows you to harvest your own vegetables, herbs, flowers, and fruit without the usual strain and effort.  |
Popular Mechanics June 2000 Roy Berendsohn |
Summer Lawn Chemicals and Wildlife With so much talk these days about the toxicity of chemicals, this article asks the advice of an expert on the topic.  |
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Plant Greens in Wide Rows Wide-row planting involves broadcasting seeds in a wide band, thus creating thicker rows with fewer paths in between. Not all vegetables, of course, are meant for wide rows.  |
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Growing Onions As with most vegetables, you can start onions from seed in the garden. But many onions have relatively long growing seasons and onion seeds don't germinate quickly, so it's often better to start the crop another way. You can set out transplants, or you can plant "sets" (half-grown onions).  |
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Corn: Planting Variations If you like experimenting, there are some variations on the basic planting methods you may want to try.  |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
New Feeder Foils Squirrels There have been some squirrel-proof feeders on the market, but now Droll Yankee has come out with the Cadillac version of squirrel-proof feeders.  |
National Gardening Carol Deppe |
Breeding Your Own Squash A guide to plant breeding and seed saving in the squash and pumpkin patch...  |
National Gardening Michael E. Trunko |
When Birds are Pests Winged invaders swoop down from the sky, descend upon your ripening fruit or newly planted vegetable garden and in minutes your harvest or garden is gone. If you've ever suffered similar misfortunes, you're not alone. Here are some bird control methods that work.  |
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Food Gardening 101 It's a great treat to go shopping in your own garden to harvest fresh food. A small, well-tended garden can be just as productive as a large one that is ignored, so it is a good idea to start small and expand it as you need more space.  |
National Gardening Amy Bartlett Wright |
Landscaping for Winter Birds Choosing the right trees and shrubs may help you gain many a feathered friend  |
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Working with Onion Transplants Onion transplants may need special care when first planted in the ground. Here are some techniques to keep in mind.  |
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Composting Q and A Starting a Compost Pile... Critters in Compost...Foul-Smelling Compost Pile... Adding Compost to a Perennial Garden... Speeding Decomposition... Planting Directly in Compost... Compost Quantity...Compost vs. Mulch... Materials to Compost... Sawdust in Compost Pile...  |
National Gardening Karen Dardick |
Meadows Come to Town Weary of the lawn routine? Wildscapes are an intriguing alternative  |
National Gardening Bill Thompson III |
Planning A Hummingbird Garden Simple ways to create a garden that's irresistible to these tiny birds...  |
This Old House March 27, 2001 Lynn Ocone |
Growing Perfect Tomatoes Treat yourself to one of the true pleasures of summer: your own homegrown tomatoes fresh from the vine...  |
This Old House Lynn Ocone |
The Catalog Connection It's not too soon to order seeds and live plants for the spring.  |
This Old House Ryan Robbins |
Harvesting Seed Help your favorite flowers propagate by collecting and sowing their seeds by hand.  |
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Annuals and Perennials for Containers Learn the differences between annuals and perennials, and use this guide for planting and caring for them in containers.  |
This Old House Roger Cook |
Marathoners of the Landscape Plants that can go the distance are the ones we look to for a fantastic show of fall color  |
National Gardening Holly Shimizu |
Coneflower This tough and cold-hardy perennial also has health benefits...  |
Popular Mechanics September 19, 2008 Ryan M. Wilson |
How to Plant for Fall and Prepare Your Garden for Winter Planting a fall garden can be a rewarding effort and a great start to preparing your entire yard for winter's dormancy as the last head of lettuce is plucked.  |
National Gardening Jack Ruttle |
Get A Head The reason a lot of people start taking cabbage for granted is that it often turns out to be too much of a good thing. With a little planning before you plant, you can arrange your harvest according to your needs.  |
Chemistry World August 11, 2008 |
Hot Chillis Evolved to Kill Fungi Wild chilli plants produce spicy chemicals in their fruit in order to deter fungal invaders, US researchers have shown.  |
National Gardening Deborah Wechsler |
Growing Giant Tomatoes All about growing really humongous plants and tomatoes  |
National Gardening Jack Ruttle |
Winter Salad Bowl No matter where you live a cold frame or tunnel greenhouse can put just-picked salads on the table through the coldest months.  |
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Insect Pests of Tomatoes Here's some basic information on several widespread pests that, like you, hanker for tomatoes.  |
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Cultivating Greens Weeds are green and while some, like lamb's quarters and purslane, can be eaten as greens, you really don't want them growing in among your salad crops. They steal moisture, fertilizer and sunlight.  |