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National Gardening Lee Reich	Blackcap Brambles Despite the black raspberry's past popularity and the fact that it will grow well from zone 4 south through zone 8, today the blackcap is mostly a regional favorite. The middle Atlantic region and Ohio are traditional hotbeds of black raspberry enthusiasm.
National Gardening	Sweet Corn Essentials Tips on planting, growing, and harvesting sweet corn.
National Gardening	Pruning Brambles Pruning reduces the chance of pest invasion and infection, allows better air circulation and light exposure and, ultimately, more fruit.
National Gardening	Asparagus Essentials Information about the planning, preparation, planting, care and harvesting of asparagus.
National Gardening	Small Fruits & Berries 101 Compared with apples, peaches or any of the tree fruits, bush and bramble fruits are easy to grow. They rarely require spraying for pests and begin bearing some fruit the year after you plant them.
National Gardening	Peach Essentials Tips for growing peaches
National Gardening	Care and Harvest of Strawberries You won't be idle until your first harvest. You must not let the new plants set berries in their first year. They will try to fruit, but you must pick off the blossoms as they appear.
National Gardening	Buying Strawberry Plants What to look for and know when buying strawberry plants.
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	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.
National Gardening	Apple Essentials Tips on planting, tending, and harvesting
National Gardening	Preventing Rose Diseases It's no surprise that roses are among the most popular ornamental garden plants: they're beautiful, fragrant, and easy to grow in most climates.
National Gardening	Peach Care Peaches do best in well-drained, sandy soils. Plant in the spring so the tree will be well established by winter.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Winterizing Modern Roses If you grow grafted, modern bush roses such as hybrid teas, floribundas and grandifloras in USDA Hardiness Zone 6 and colder, you must provide winter protection to ensure their survival. Protect the graft union first.
National Gardening Lee Reich	Blueberry Prescription A timeless favorite for the garden and the kitchen...
National Gardening Lewis & Nancy Hill	Seaberry Among the recent horticultural arrivals from Russia and central Asia is the seaberry, also known as sea buckthorn
National Gardening	Corn: Planting Variations If you like experimenting, there are some variations on the basic planting methods you may want to try.
National Gardening	Oriental Poppy Sporting huge, cup-shaped blooms in early summer, the Oriental poppy is the most striking of the perennial poppies, and the delicate, papery flowers belie the plant's hardiness and durability. But you should still heed these tips.
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.
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 Robert E. Gough	The Mighty Lingonberry Why, where, how to grow lingonberries.
National Gardening Kris Wetherbee	Jostaberry Here is information on the jostaberry, a sweet berry that is easy to grow because of its resistance to disease.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	When Good Tomatoes Go Bad Here's a list of eight of the most common tomato fruit problems not caused by insect or disease.
National Gardening	Plugging and Sprigging a Lawn A how-to guide for planting warm-season grasses.
National Gardening	Planting Apple Trees Choose a site with full sun, moderate fertility, and good air circulation and water drainage. Apple trees will tolerate a wide range of soil conditions. While you can improve your soil with fertilizer and mulch, other factors will go a long way toward overcoming less-than-perfect soil.
National Gardening	Naturalizing with Tulips Species tulips and hybrids of Tulipa fosteriana, T. greigii, and T. kaufmanniana are ideal candidates for naturalizing, as they spread rapidly by seed, stolons, and bulblets.
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.
National Gardening	Cabbage Family Greens These cabbage family greens make great additions to any salad garden.
National Gardening Michael MacCaskey	Winter's Hollies Top hollies for your winter garden...
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 Jack Ruttle	Winter Salad Bowl No matter where you live a cold frame or tunnel greenhouse can put just-picked salads on the table through the coldest months.
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	Planting Grapes The fall before you plant, mark the location for your vines. Get rid of all weeds, especially perennial ones, as your vines can easily survive 30 years or more in the same location.
National Gardening David & Tina Silber	Meet Babaco Imagine yourself in the cool and misty mountain valleys of Ecuador. It was there--no one knows exactly when--that a horticultural miracle occurred. A new type of papaya appeared, one perfectly suited to home-garden growing: The six-foot-high plant is completely adaptable to container growing, and it fruits prolifically.
National Gardening	Cultivating Greens Weeds are green and while some, like lamb's quarters and purslane, can be eaten as greens, you really don't want them growing in among your salad crops. They steal moisture, fertilizer and sunlight.
National Gardening Jack Ruttle	The Tomato-Vetch Connection A USDA-devised mulch system is revolutionizing tomato farming...
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.
National Gardening William Ross	Fruit Trees in Containers For folks who want to grow their own fruit, but who don't have adequate space or a suitable climate, growing fruit in containers offers several opportunities.
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 Charlie Nardozzi	Shopper's Guide to Bark Mulch The advantages of using organic mulch to blanket soil around trees, shrubs, and perennial plants are many. This article explores the kinds of bark mulches you can buy and their advantages and disadvantages.
National Gardening Jack Ruttle	How to Prune Summer-Bearing Raspberries Late winter or early spring, just at the end of the dormant season, is the best time to prune summer-bearing red raspberries. Here's how.
National Gardening Alice Knight	Winter Heaths Early fall is prime time to plant these hardy long-blooming evergreens.
This Old House Roger Cook	May Is for Mulching Decorate and protect your beds now, before the heat of summer sets in.
National Gardening Diane Bilderback	All About Dahlias These easy-to-grow plants produce prolific flowers in the summer and the fall.
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 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 National Gardening editors	Leave Doomed Tomatoes on the Vine Plastic mulch is the quickest way to ripe fruit...
This Old House February 2, 2001 Warren Schultz	Getting the Best Deal on Plants Your guide to buying plants for the upcoming growing season...
This Old House Josh Garskof	Get Ready for Fall Now's the best time to spruce up your yard
National Gardening Peter Kopcinski	All About Petunias Petunias have always offered nonstop summer bloom, but now you're more likely to find a color, size, and growth habit to suit your garden needs. New, vigorous trailing types and miniature-flowered types have rekindled gardeners' interest.