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All About Dahlias These easy-to-grow plants produce prolific flowers in the summer and the fall.   |
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Prolific and Terrific: Ranunculus In the temperate South and Southwest, planting time is near. Elsewhere, buy tubers now to plant in February or March. |
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Harvesting Potatoes After all your work of planting and caring for your potato plants, here's how to get the most from your harvest. |
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Summer Bulbs Consider these for summer color |
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Caladiums Colorful tropical foliage stars in garden beds and indoors. |
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Confessions of a Plant Thief Cuttings are an excellent way to propagate most perennials. So if you see a plant that appeals to you, just nip off a 6-inch piece of stem for rooting. And once roots have formed, the little plant will begin to grow and form new leaves. |
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Timing The Potato Planting Potatoes can be planted very early in the season -- almost as soon as the frost is out of the ground and you're able to work the soil. In the North, you can plant your first crop of early maturing potatoes in April, usually six to eight weeks before the last frost. |
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The Begonia Show-Offs No flower is more brilliant in cool shade... |
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Those Bloomin' Holiday Gifts How to keep holiday gift plants at their best year-round... |
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Caring for Potatoes Caring for potatoes requires proper watering, cultivating and hilling. |
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Getting Started with Container Gardening Here's a look at some of the benefits of container gardening and choosing the right containers for your plants. |
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April 2000
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Balloon Flower Easy to grow, reliable, looks great as a border -- and it's blue |
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Making a Water Garden in a Tub To the uninitiated, water gardens seem complicated, expensive, and fussy. But many of the principles of gardening in water are the same as those for gardening in soil. If you can grow a tomato, you can grow a water lily. |
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Container Gardening 101 Today's condominium owners and apartment dwellers do not have to forsake gardening. In fact, they can create their own garden hideaway in small spaces. |
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Sunny Sedum Sedums, also called stonecrop, are versatile plants. They grow well in perennial borders, containers, and rock gardens. Their thick, fleshy leaves and colorful blossoms that makes them sought-after additions to any garden. And they are among the easiest of plants to propagate. |
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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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Annuals and Perennials for Containers Learn the differences between annuals and perennials, and use this guide for planting and caring for them in containers. |
National Gardening
June 2000
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Tomatoes in a Can Growing full-size tomatoes in containers saves space and protects plants from disease |
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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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Growing Herbs Indoors Even just a few indoor pots of herbs can supply you with wonderful flavors and herbal gifts through the rest of the year. |
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Jack Ruttle |
The Holiday Cactus For lavish winter color, invite these rainforest natives indoors |
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Charlie Nardozzi |
Bulb Planting Know-how You can avoid many bulb problems simply by planting and fertilizing correctly... |
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June 2000
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Tropical Visions Given the right conditions, these flamboyant vines can grow almost anywhere |
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Planting a Window Box Combine flowering plants and those with attractive foliage in window boxes to add color to decks, window sashes, and porch rails. |
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Planting in Pots Container gardens are a movable feast for the senses. Here's how to assemble and care for knockout combinations |
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Ornamental Sweet Potatoes Grow sweet potatoes for their leaves... |
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Going to Pots Use containers to create a glorious garden anywhere |
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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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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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A Gardener's Guide to Frost How to predict when it's coming and what to do about it... |
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Maintaining Container Gardens These simple maintenance tasks will keep keep your patio planters and window boxes looking their best throughout the growing season and help cold-climate gardeners prepare for winter. |
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Houseplants for People Who Can't Grow Houseplants No matter the color of your thumb, this guide will help you select and care for plants that will thrive. |
