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Sweet Potato Experiment

Growing Sweet Potatoes

One vegetable that I love but had never grown before this year is the sweet potato. Sweet potatoes...
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How to Save Seeds From Beans, Peppers, Onions, and More!

Saving seeds from your best plants can result in vegetables that are perfectly suited to your...
September Song

September Gardening Tips

What do you do in the garden in September? After Labor Day, I can feel and see the slowing of...
Watermelon Harvest

How to Tell If a Watermelon Is Ripe?

Every year I am faced with the same dilemma: how to tell if a watermelon is ripe. Muskmelons are...
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Extend the Growing Season: Cold Frames, Row Covers, and Ideas

Extend your growing season into the colder months so that you can harvest fresh food from your...
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How to Start a School Garden

When kids are back in school, it’s the perfect time to plan a school garden. Children who grow...
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Fungus Gnats

Often considered only a minor houseplant pest, fungus gnats can quickly become a major issue if an...
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Planting Bulbs for Spring Flowers

If you enjoy seeing daffodils, tulips, and hyacinths bloom in the spring, keep in mind that these...
Butternut Squash Spice Cake

Garden Guide Recipe Contest Winners

We are pleased to share these delicious winning recipes from past Garden Guide recipe contests—...
Dry flowers now

Best Flowers for Drying | How to Dry Flowers

The heat of the season is perfect for air-drying flowers to brighten those gray, frigid days of...
Rain Garden

Rain Gardens: Two Designs and Plant List

With a rain garden, use—don’t lose—all the rain water that falls on your paved areas and roof....
Hot Peppers

Hot Peppers for Health & Happiness

Not only are hot peppers delicious in cooking, but also they have healing powers—triggering a...
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Powdery Mildew

Wondering about that white fungus on your plants? The fungal disease powdery mildew affects a wide...
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Preparing Soil for Planting

When it comes to a healthy garden, soil preparation matters. All vegetables need soil that’s rich...
Autumnal Equinox

The Old, Misunderstood Equinox

Can you balance an egg on the equinox? Are days and nights truly equal? Bob separates autumnal...
Eggplants

Eggplants

Eggplants—also known as aubergine—are warm-weather vegetables that are harvested in mid- to late...
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Keeping Plants Watered in Dry, Hot Summers

Keeping your plants properly watered during dry, hot summers isn’t easy. Here are our tips to help...
Tree Planting

Tree-Planting Tips for Fall

From a tree’s point of view, fall is an excellent planting time—even better than spring. Many...
Calendula

Discover 20 Self-Sowing Flowers!

Many flowers reseed themselves! Here’s a list of over 20 flowers that you plant once and enjoy for...
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Keep Weeds Under Control (Without Weed Killers)

Dealing with weeds in the garden? Their often persistent nature can make for a truly frustrating...
Salvia With Silver Leaves

Silver Foliage Plants: Add a Touch of Silver!

One of the joys of summer is attending garden tours. This time of year, many private gardens are...
Dandelion Weeds

Common Garden Weeds

No one likes to talk about weeds, but if you’re growing vegetables, fruit, herbs, or flowers, it’s...
Beets

How to Store Vegetables

 Although most houses these days are not equipped with root cellars, you can probably modify some...
Zucchini and Squash

Too Much Zucchini? Freeze It!

It’s that time of year: Friends, neighbors, coworkers, even some side-of-the-road vegetable vendors...
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Asparagus

Asparagus is one of the first plants that greets us in springtime! It’s a perennial, which means...
Sweet Potatoes

Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes are grown more often in southern regions because they require at least four months...
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How to Thin Fruit Trees for a Better Harvest

It may sound counterintuitive, but to get the best harvest of apples and some other fruit, we...
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Painting Pots: The Sponge Technique

Beautifully painting a flower pot might seem like a daunting task, but the easy sponge technique...
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10 Quick Tips to Preserve Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruit

What to do with the bounty from your garden? Freeze it, pickle it, dry it, store it!  Here are 10...
Flowers in a Vase

How to Keep Cut Flowers Fresh

Fresh cut flower arrangements, whether homegrown or purchased, look fabulous in a vase. Here’s how...
Red Potatoes

Potatoes

Wondering how to grow potatoes? We’re here to help! The taste and the texture of homegrown potatoes...
Saving Seeds

Saving Vegetable and Flower Seeds for Replanting

Saving seeds from your favorite plants and swapping them with friends is one of the best ways to...
Rose Potpourri

How to Make Rose Potpourri

See how to make a simple, classic potpourri recipe using rose petals and other flowers. It’s a...
Diatomaceous Earth

What is Diatomaceous Earth?

Gardeners are often given the advice to sprinkle diatomaceous earth (DE) around plants to deter...
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Starting Herbs from Cuttings

Grow new herbs from cuttings easily and for free! Late summer is the perfect time to do this,...
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Feeding Your Plants for Free

There are many commercial products available to feed your plants with, but you can’t beat making...
Sweet Corn Just Harvested

How to Freeze Corn

We love fresh corn on the cob in the summer, but the season for fresh corn only lasts so long, so...
Espalier Apple Tree

How to Espalier: Fruit Trees in Small Spaces

Whether your garden is formal or informal, the addition of an espalier, trained flat against a...
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Sage

Garden sage is easy to grow—and a wonderful culinary herb that flavors meat and bean dishes (...
Apple Tree

Apples

How are your apple trees growing? Don’t forget to water young trees as they establish their root...
Ears of Corn

Corn

Sweet corn is an annual with yellow, white, and bi-colored ears. A long, frost-free growing season...
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Slugs

Here are tips on how to identify, control, and get rid of slugs in the garden. What Are Slugs?...

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