Many people want to grow their own apples, but it can be very disappointing when the apple crop is damaged by insects and disease. The fruit can
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Keep garden-fresh tomatoes close at hand this season. Grow one or more in containers on your patio, balcony, or front steps. Any tomato can be
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Carbon dioxide is a critical part of plant growth, though it is the most invisible to the average grower. Light, water, and nutrients are all measure
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Those little peeky-poos of Spring are tantalizing this cold-climate rosarian. Those cute, early crocuses, the tulip leaves starting to poke their
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March is a good month to begin plants for your flower and vegetable gardens. If you also want to make money, grow extras to sell. Provide neighbo
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Many people like to grow their own food and there are a lot of spring vegetables that are ideal for the cool weather start that will help gardeners f
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It is the rare gardener indeed who moves into a house with great soil. In fact, many gardeners believe that it takes up to seven years to “amend’ mos
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Division is a propagation technique used for landscape plants that do not have a single stem or crown. Many plants have just one stem emerging from t
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A common error when buying a chemical fertilizer is failure to read the label, not just what are the “fertilizer” elements (NPK) given on the fro
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If you want your grape vine to produce an abundance of good fruit, then you need to properly prune your grape vines in late winter. Grape vine
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