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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. |
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Cabbage Family Greens These cabbage family greens make great additions to any salad garden. |
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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). |
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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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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Sweet Corn Essentials Tips on planting, growing, and harvesting sweet corn. |
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 Jack Ruttle |
Fast-Growing Salad Greens These Asian specialties sprint from seed to salad bowl in two months or less... |
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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. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Fall Garden Cover Crops For healthier soil next spring, sow a cover crop this fall... |
National Gardening Robert Kouric |
Herbes de Provence How to grow and make this gourmet seasoning |
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... |
National Gardening Robert Kourik |
Growing Great Garlic Chester Aaron's guide to techniques and timing... |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Winter Annuals A colorful way to garden this winter... |
National Gardening Jack Ruttle |
All-American Daylilies No other perennial gives as much for so little |
National Gardening Bruce Butterfield |
Gardeners: Start Your Seeds! Our own "professional" home gardener shares his methods |
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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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Working with Onion Transplants Onion transplants may need special care when first planted in the ground. Here are some techniques to keep in mind. |
National Gardening Lynn Ocone |
Planning a Vegetable Garden How to design and build a vegetable garden that really works |
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 Michael MacCaskey |
Summer Bulbs Consider these for summer color |
National Gardening Carolyn Male |
Tomato Diseases Forewarned is forearmed: how to read your tomato leaves. |
National Gardening Ben Watson |
Veteran Vegetables While you're planting some of the newest vegetables, don't forget to leave some room for these classics. |
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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. |
National Gardening Alice Knight |
Winter Heaths Early fall is prime time to plant these hardy long-blooming evergreens. |
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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 Rick Darke |
Blue Star Multiseason appeal and modest demands make this little-known perennial a garden winner. |
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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. |
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Tools for Preparing the Garden Before a single plant even touches the ground in your garden, it would be wise to spend time preparing the soil. You'll have fewer weeds and diseases and better plant growth, flowering, and fruiting later. |
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Improving Clay Soil If your garden has heavy clay soil, you know what a challenge it can pose to plants, not to mention gardeners. Heavy clay drains slowly, meaning it stays saturated longer after rain or irrigation. |
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. |
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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? |
National Gardening Patt Kasa |
Putting the Garden to Bed The short warm days and crisp nights of autumn trigger leaf color changes, and remind me it's time to clean up the garden. |
National Gardening Ben Watson |
Hybrid or Open Pollinated Is one type of vegetable seed better than another? |
National Gardening Skip Richter |
Turn Leaves into Gold These golden leaves can be turned into "black gold" for the garden. They make great soil-enriching compost or a protective mulch. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Ornamental Sweet Potatoes Grow sweet potatoes for their leaves... |
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Tools for Planting Using the right tools and the proper techniques will not only make planting less of a chore, but also a greater success. |
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Preparing Soil for Greens When it's early in the season and nearly time to plant a host of greens, put in a little time with your garden soil to prevent weed problems. |
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Establishing a Wildflower Meadow A how-to guide for planting a wildflower meadow. |
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Soil Fertility 101 Just as a good foundation is necessary to support a building, good soil is necessary to build a successful garden. All soil is not alike. It differs in texture, fertility, and balance. |
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Gardening Hand Tools 101 A small investment in the right tools will pay big dividends in making your gardening easier. |
National Gardening Cheryl Dorschner |
Starting from Seed Tips from an innovative gardener... |
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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Growing Apples Apples require a fair amount of patience planning. If you want a choice crop, you'll have to control insects, diseases, and other pests, worry about the weather, prune every year, keep up the harvest, and gather drops before they clog the lawn mower |
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. |
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. |
National Gardening Georgeanne Brennan |
Hearty Harvest Recipes These two recipes play up the assets of root vegetables. In the first one, nine underground vegetables are roasted with herbs and olive oil. The result is even better than the sum of its parts. The second is a surprise: parsnips in an aromatic spice cake. |