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National Gardening	Corn Care Corn doesn't need any more attention than other garden vegetables, but it's a crop that can take up a fair amount of time if you plant a lot. Make it easier by combining tasks.
National Gardening	Corn Confidential You watered it, fed it, and nursed your corn crop through the summer. How can you prevent growing corn with more cob than kernel?
National Gardening	Harvesting Corn Harvesting corn is a matter of picking the ears at peak flavor. Here's how to know when to harvest.
National Gardening	Flea Beetle Flea beetles can spread diseases such as early blight to potatoes or bacterial wilt to corn, and larvae feed on roots.
National Gardening	Corn Rootworm Corn rootworm is most likely a problem in gardens where corn has grown for two seasons or more.
National Gardening	Sweet Corn Essentials Tips on planting, growing, and harvesting sweet corn.
National Gardening	Insect Pests of Tomatoes Here's some basic information on several widespread pests that, like you, hanker for tomatoes.
National Gardening	What's Bugging My Peppers? As a northern gardener, you won't have too many problems with insects bothering okra, peppers, and eggplant. Southern gardeners will have more problems. Here's a rundown of the most common pests and what can be done for them.
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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.
This Old House July 6, 2000 Denny Schrock	Working the Bugs Out Here's a safe and effective system to control the plant-eating pests in your yard.
National Gardening	Garden Pests 101 The best defense against garden damage from insects and disease is a long-term program of soil building. Healthy soil will produce healthy, resistant plants.
National Gardening Warren Schultz	Sweeter Sweet Corn Sugary, enhanced varieties stay sweet longer on the stalk and in the kitchen.
National Gardening	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.
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	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 June 2000 Kris Wetherbee	Corn of Many Colors For an exciting range of colors and tastes, plant gourmet popcorn this spring
National Gardening	Cucumber Beetle They are more dangerous to their cucumber family hosts than many pests because they transmit deadly diseases -- mosaic and bacterial wilts.
National Gardening Mark Whitelaw	Growing Roses the Natural Way 14 friendly remedies for rose pests and diseases
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Fall Garden Cover Crops For healthier soil next spring, sow a cover crop this fall...
National Gardening Whitney Cranshaw	The "Do-Good" Bugs A guide to choosing and using beneficial insects, mites and nematodes...
National Gardening	Cooking and Storing Corn Here's a rundown on several ways you can prepare this summertime favorite. With each of these methods, the crucial factor is freshness.
National Gardening Lynn Ocone	Planning a Vegetable Garden How to design and build a vegetable garden that really works
Science News August 30, 2003 Janet Raloff	Spying Genetically Engineered Crops Environmental Protection Agency scientists are exploring the use of satellites to monitor genetically engineered crops.
National Gardening Skip Richter	Enlist Help from the Good Guys of the Garden When it comes to the garden, not all bugs are bad. Here are four simple ways to attract beneficial insects to your garden and to make sure they stay around.
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.
Nutrition Action Healthletter November 2001 David Schardt	Genetically Engineered Foods: Are They Safe? Using biotechnology to produce food has enormous potential: safer pesticides and less harm to wildlife, more nutritious foods, and greater yields to help feed the world's hungry nations. It's the risks of dicing and splicing Mother Nature that are harder to get a handle on...
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	Fruit Tree Site Selection Of primary importance when choosing a planting site for you fruit tree is that it receives as much sun as possible.
National Gardening Ben Watson	Hybrid or Open Pollinated Is one type of vegetable seed better than another?
National Gardening Michael E. Trunko	When Birds are Pests Winged invaders swoop down from the sky, descend upon your ripening fruit or newly planted vegetable garden and in minutes your harvest or garden is gone. If you've ever suffered similar misfortunes, you're not alone. Here are some bird control methods that work.
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 June 2000 Beth Marie Renaud	Tomatoes in a Can Growing full-size tomatoes in containers saves space and protects plants from disease
National Gardening Deborah Wechsler	Ten Steps to Giant Tomatoes If you want to join the ranks of supergrowers in your area, follow these 10 steps.
National Gardening	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	Asparagus Beetle Two species are common. One is blue-black and common throughout the U.S. The other is orange with black spots. Both adults and larvae feed on developing spears, and later in the season, on ferny foliage.
National Gardening July 2, 2003 Cathy Cromell	Garden Guru: Whitney Cranshaw Often called upon to bridge the gap between the interests of insects and the interests of humans, Colorado author and entomology professor Whitney Cranshaw uses Integrated Pest Management's premise of working with the natural life cycles of insects to control pest problems with less pesticide.
BusinessWeek April 14, 2011 Jon Birger	The Battle Royale for Supercorn Corn that doesn't need so much nitrogen could cut America's $8-billion-a-year fertilizer bill, send less pollution into the water and less carbon into the air. Meet the scientists trying to build a better kernel
Science News July 22, 2006 Ben Harder	Demand for Ethanol May Drive Up Food Prices The production of ethanol from corn and other crops for fuel could drive up food prices.
The Motley Fool February 5, 2011 Dana Blankenhorn	Throwing Corn off the Green Bus Is the best way to accelerate the move to truly renewable ethanol, to cellulosic alcohol, for the rest of the renewables industry to let corn go?
National Gardening	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.
National Gardening Ann Whitman	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.
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.
National Gardening	Tarnished Plant Bug Called "tarnished" for its brown-coppery color, this otherwise unassuming little bug is a major pest, especially for commercial growers.
This Old House Lynn Ocone	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.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2011 Jacob Roche	Don't Let Your Portfolio Get Wished Into the Cornfield High corn prices are crushing profits in certain industries.
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The Motley Fool June 12, 2008 Toby Shute	The Corn Crunch Is On Weather damage is catapulting corn prices and crushing corn consumers; ethanol producers look particularly vulnerable.