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Drought-Busting Techniques
As summer heats up, use these drought-busting techniques to keep your garden watered, healthy, and productive throughout the season.
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drought resources
Drought-Busting Techniques
As summer heats up, use these drought-busting techniques to keep your garden watered, healthy, and productive throughout the season.
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drought resources
Beat the Drought with These Techniques
Good water management leads to a healthy plant, and healthy plants are able to withstand insect and disease pressures better than unhealthy ones.
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garden fundamentals
How to Prevent and Solve Problems Organically
Learn how to fight pests and diseases in the garden without pesticides. Check out our article on how to deal with pests and diseases organically.
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garden fundamentals
Organic and Sustainable Gardening 101
Organic gardening isn't just about avoiding synthetic pesticides or fertilizers. It also encompasses growing in harmony with nature. Learn how to grow organically and sustainably here.
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garden fundamentals
Surgery for Squash Vine Borers
Surgery for squash vine borers is the last line of defense when borers have invaded your squash plants. Here is a simple description of how to remove them.
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garden fundamentals
Weeding Your Garden Naturally
Got too many weeds competing with your garden or fostering problem insects? Tackle them — and keep your garden chemical-free — with these natural weeding techniques.
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garden ideas inspiration
6 Great Books for New Gardeners
New gardeners have one thing in common: They have lots of questions. If you don’t have a neighbor or friend who gardens, you can find the answers you need by stocking your home library with a few key books.
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garden fundamentals
Growing Herbs in Containers
Using containers to grow herbs can be an excellent way to garden in a small space. Learn the benefits of herb container gardening and get tips.
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diy garden projects
How to Make a Raised Bed from Bales of Straw
A straw bale raised bed is an inexpensive method for creating a raised bed. Perfect for new gardeners, frugal gardeners, or gardeners needing more space.
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how to grow
Growing Corn
Sinking your teeth into a perfectly ripened ear of sweet corn is one of the finest pleasures of summer. Learn expert techniques for growing corn.
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garden ideas inspiration
Keeping Community Gardeners Engaged
Once community gardeners begin enjoying the fruits of their labors, they’ll be hooked. Here are some ideas for encouraging interaction.
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how to grow
Growing Artichokes
Growing artichokes in your garden is simple and easy to manage. Let us show you how to grow this delicious vegetable at Bonnie Plants.
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garden fundamentals
How to Prune Tomatoes for a Big Harvest
Pruning tomato plants is an optional technique that some gardeners use to keep plants tidy, manipulate fruit size, and even speed ripening. There is one big catch: You should only prune indeterminate varieties, which produce new leaves and flowers continuously through the growing season. Here are some reasons to prune.
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garden fundamentals
How to Support Tomatoes
Whether you use tomato cages, stakes, trellises, or something else to support tomato plants, you keep the plants healthier and ensure easier harvesting.
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garden fundamentals
Gathering Garden Worms
Those rainy spring days create the perfect situation for gathering garden worms to aerate and fertilize the soil in your garden beds. Find out how to do it.
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garden fundamentals
Japanese Beetles
You may be familiar with Japanese beetles as a problem for roses and lawns, but these beetles can also feed on your vegetable plants. Corn, asparagus, and rhubarb are especially at risk.
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garden fundamentals
Which Onion Is Right For You?
If you have ever planted onions only to grow a lackluster harvest of small bulbs, your growing technique may not be the issue. You may have started with the wrong onion. There are three types of onions, each one better suited for a certain part of the country. If you plant the wrong one, you may not get much of a harvest. Here's how to tell which onion is right for you.
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garden fundamentals
The Basics of Fertilizing
All edible plants remove some nutrients from the soil, and some have such huge appetites that they quickly exhaust the soil (and then produce a poor crop) without the help of fertilizer. Fertilizer is especially helpful early on, when plants are making fast new growth. The key is to match the fertilizing strategy to the plant.
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how to grow
Growing Tomatoes
Learn how to grow tomatoes. Get tips about growing tomatoes in the ground, raised beds, or containers. Care for tomato plants from planting to harvesting.
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garden ideas inspiration
5 Gorgeous Gardening Coffee Table Books
It’s entertaining season, and my husband I and like to play our part by hosting a few dinner parties. All those parties, of course, mean lots of guests, and I wouldn’t be a good hostess if I didn’t have some eye-catching coffee table books laying around to be perused, would I?
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garden fundamentals
How to Store Winter Squash
Learn how to store winter squash and preserve your harvest for months to come. Curing the squash helps ensure safe storage through winter.
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how to grow
Growing Cantaloupe and Honeydew Melons
Growing cantaloupe and honeydew melons is so rewarding, as they taste much better than their store-bought cousins. Learn the best techniques here.
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garden fundamentals
Keeping Voles Out of the Garden
When a deer or rabbit visits your garden, it’s tough to miss the nibbled leaves, chewed shoots, and missing plants. Voles, on the other hand, can be harder to identify — but just as destructive. Before you begin laying plans for keeping voles out of the garden, you want be sure that voles are the culprits.
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garden fundamentals
Square Foot Gardening
Square foot gardening is exactly what the name says: dividing a growing area into 1-foot x 1-foot sections. In a true square foot garden, an actual grid is placed on the growing area to divide up the space. What you grow in each section depends on the mature size of the crop.
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