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Buying Strawberry Plants What to look for and know when buying strawberry plants.   |
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Getting Ready for Strawberries It is not mere pride that makes a freshly picked home-grown strawberry taste better -- it really does. The fresher the berry, the sweeter the taste. Strawberries are high yielders. |
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Planting Strawberries Strawberries will do best in soil that has been thoroughly prepared. If your future strawberry bed was plowed last year, you're ahead of the game. |
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Small Fruits & Berries 101 Compared with apples, peaches or any of the tree fruits, bush and bramble fruits are easy to grow. They rarely require spraying for pests and begin bearing some fruit the year after you plant them. |
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Asparagus Essentials Information about the planning, preparation, planting, care and harvesting of asparagus. |
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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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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. |
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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. |
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Blackberry Essentials Tips for growing blackberries |
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Planting Groundcover Use low-growing perennial plants and shrubs as groundcovers to cover slopes and rough ground or to replace high-maintenance lawns. Choose plants that thrive in your particular soil and climate. |
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Making a Raised-Bed Garden Raised beds are popular because they are relatively easy to build, plant, weed, and maintain. |
National Gardening
Robert E. Gough |
The Mighty Lingonberry Why, where, how to grow lingonberries. |
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Corn Care Corn doesn't need any more attention than other garden vegetables, but it's a crop that can take up a fair amount of time if you plant a lot. Make it easier by combining tasks. |
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Planting Onions Plant your sets early in the spring. Onions do best if the temperature is cool when they start to grow, and warm as they mature. |
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Cabbage Family Greens These cabbage family greens make great additions to any salad garden. |
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Lee Reich |
Blackcap Brambles Despite the black raspberry's past popularity and the fact that it will grow well from zone 4 south through zone 8, today the blackcap is mostly a regional favorite. The middle Atlantic region and Ohio are traditional hotbeds of black raspberry enthusiasm. |
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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Sweet Corn Essentials Tips on planting, growing, and harvesting sweet corn. |
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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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Lewis & Nancy Hill |
Seaberry Among the recent horticultural arrivals from Russia and central Asia is the seaberry, also known as sea buckthorn |
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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. |
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Growing Endive & Chicory In recent years gourmet European and Asian greens have gained popularity in this country. They add a spicy taste and an interesting texture to regular salads. |
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... |
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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. |
This Old House
Andrew Keys |
Banishing Invasives for Good So you've decided to get rid of the problem shrubs in your garden. Now, how best to ditch them? |
National Gardening
Deborah Wechsler |
Growing Giant Tomatoes All about growing really humongous plants and tomatoes |
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Preparing for Raspberries Raspberries are so delicate and perishable they're scarce at the supermarket and fruit stands and expensive if you find them. Fortunately, they're easy to grow at home. |
National Gardening
Deborah Wechsler |
Ten Steps to Giant Tomatoes If you want to join the ranks of supergrowers in your area, follow these 10 steps. |
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Oriental Poppy Sporting huge, cup-shaped blooms in early summer, the Oriental poppy is the most striking of the perennial poppies, and the delicate, papery flowers belie the plant's hardiness and durability. But you should still heed these tips. |
This Old House
Roger Cook |
Fall Fertilizing Why autumn is the right time of year to nourish your yard. |
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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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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. |
National Gardening
Kris Wetherbee |
Jostaberry Here is information on the jostaberry, a sweet berry that is easy to grow because of its resistance to disease. |
National Gardening
Lynn Ocone |
Planning a Vegetable Garden How to design and build a vegetable garden that really works |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
When Good Tomatoes Go Bad Here's a list of eight of the most common tomato fruit problems not caused by insect or disease. |
National Gardening
Lee Reich |
Blueberry Prescription A timeless favorite for the garden and the kitchen... |
National Gardening
Nan Sterman |
Hardy Kiwi Have you tasted these remarkable miniature kiwis yet? Every bit as delicious as the larger, more familiar fuzzy kiwi, hardy kiwis are much easier to grow and eat (skin and all). |
This Old House
February 2, 2001
Warren Schultz |
Getting the Best Deal on Plants Your guide to buying plants for the upcoming growing season... |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009 |
How to Build and Install Raised Garden Beds These controlled experiments in plant parenthood are so easy, in fact, that they're also well-suited to novices picking up a shovel for the first time. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Grow Space-Saving Tomatoes If you only have a small garden, there are varieties of tomatoes that will fit perfectly into the space. |
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Plugging and Sprigging a Lawn A how-to guide for planting warm-season grasses. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Getting Gardens Ready for Winter While gardeners in warmer climes (USDA zones 8 to 10) relish the cool air because it signals fall planting time, most gardeners across the country know it's time to wrap up the garden. |
National Gardening
June 2000
Beth Marie Renaud |
Tomatoes in a Can Growing full-size tomatoes in containers saves space and protects plants from disease |
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Caring for Potatoes Caring for potatoes requires proper watering, cultivating and hilling. |
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Planting Peas You can plant peas in a number of different fashions. Check to see which one suits your garden best. |
| This Old House |
Winter Plant Tip: Buy Ugly Dormant bare-root plants make for a wise cold-weather purchase. |
National Gardening
David & Tina Silber |
Meet Babaco Imagine yourself in the cool and misty mountain valleys of Ecuador. It was there--no one knows exactly when--that a horticultural miracle occurred. A new type of papaya appeared, one perfectly suited to home-garden growing: The six-foot-high plant is completely adaptable to container growing, and it fruits prolifically. |
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Preventing Rose Diseases It's no surprise that roses are among the most popular ornamental garden plants: they're beautiful, fragrant, and easy to grow in most climates. |
Smithsonian
July 2006
David Karp |
Berried Treasure Why is horticulturalist Jan Swartz so determined to grow an exotic strawberry beloved by Jane Austen? He's searching for what may be the most elusive prize in the highly competitive, secretive, $1.4 billion-a-year strawberry industry. |
This Old House
Roger Cook |
Smart Sprinkling When the skies are cloudless and the days are hot and long, you can help your lawn and garden survive by watering wisely |
