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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	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 Warren Schultz	Building Great Soil Soil is the most important factor in successful gardening. Here are tips on evaluating and improving your soil.
National Gardening	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.
National Gardening	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.
National Gardening	Building Soil 101 A steady program of soil building is like a steady program of physical conditioning. You'll get great results in the long run if you stick with it and don't go overboard right away.
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.
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This Old House Roger Cook	May Is for Mulching Decorate and protect your beds now, before the heat of summer sets in.
National Gardening	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.
This Old House September 2007 Roger Cook	Fall Groundwork "This is prime time to prep your yard for the next growing season," says our landscape contractor.
National Gardening	Organic Fertilizers 101 Most soils benefit from the addition of fertilizer. Benefits to using organic fertilizers instead of synthetic fertilizers include fewer applications.
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National Gardening	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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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.
This Old House Keith Pandolfi	Green Acres How to break your lawn's addition to synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides.
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Garden Gate	Summer Escape: Planting Beneath Shade Trees If you've ever tried to grow a garden under a tree, you know that your plants have to compete with the tree's roots for space, water and nutrients. Here are some tips that can make growing a garden under a tree easier.
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This Old House Jeanne Huber	Back to Nature The greenest approach to landscaping returns a yard to its roots.
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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 Robert Kourik	Gardening Fact or Fallacy? Though plants, soils and weather conditions are always evolving, it seems as if some gardening practices become embedded like fossils.
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