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Mulching Trees and Shrubs Why mulch? Because it helps minimize weeds, conserve moisture, moderate soil temperature, and make your yard look good.   |
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Say Good-bye to Weeds Think it's an overstatement to call it the war against weeds? Here's what you're up against... |
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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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Establishing a Wildflower Meadow A how-to guide for planting a wildflower meadow. |
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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. |
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Plugging and Sprigging a Lawn A how-to guide for planting warm-season grasses. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Landscape Fabrics Try the easy way to a weed-free yard this summer. Landscape fabrics eliminate weed growth around trees and shrubs for years, saving the time and energy you'll spend weeding and spraying herbicides. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Smart Sprinkling When the skies are cloudless and the days are hot and long, you can help your lawn and garden survive by watering wisely |
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Getting the Best Deal on Plants Your guide to buying plants for the upcoming growing season... |
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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. |
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Planning a Low-Maintenance Landscape Landscapes that require minimum time and money to maintain require thoughtful planning and installation. So invest early in planning and structures, and you'll pay (and work) less later. |
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Perennials 101 Owing to a fairly recent revival of the casual "cottage garden" look, perennials are more popular with today's home gardeners than they ever have been. |
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Getting Started With Perennials First, we dispel a common myth: You don't need to be an expert gardener to grow perennials. Then we answer a few common questions about perennials. |
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Asparagus Essentials Information about the planning, preparation, planting, care and harvesting of asparagus. |
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Tools for Preparing the Garden Before a single plant even touches the ground in your garden, it would be wise to spend time preparing the soil. You'll have fewer weeds and diseases and better plant growth, flowering, and fruiting later. |
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Corn: Planting Variations If you like experimenting, there are some variations on the basic planting methods you may want to try. |
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Summer Escape: Planting Beneath Shade Trees If you've ever tried to grow a garden under a tree, you know that your plants have to compete with the tree's roots for space, water and nutrients. Here are some tips that can make growing a garden under a tree easier. |
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How to Get Rid of Weeds How to identify common weeds in your lawn and professional removal tips to get rid of them. |
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Cultivating the Garden A little work now will save you tons of time and trouble later in the season. |
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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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Fall Groundwork "This is prime time to prep your yard for the next growing season," says our landscape contractor. |
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Banishing Invasives for Good So you've decided to get rid of the problem shrubs in your garden. Now, how best to ditch them? |
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The War on Weeds How to identify and get rid of the most common weeds in your lawn. |
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Caring for Potatoes Caring for potatoes requires proper watering, cultivating and hilling. |
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Jack Ruttle |
The Tomato-Vetch Connection A USDA-devised mulch system is revolutionizing tomato farming... |
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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. |
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Making a Raised-Bed Garden Raised beds are popular because they are relatively easy to build, plant, weed, and maintain. |
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Bonnie Lee Appleton |
Fall Tree Care The attention young trees need in Fall |
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Warren Schultz |
Building Great Soil Soil is the most important factor in successful gardening. Here are tips on evaluating and improving your soil. |
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Dividing Perennials For one reason or another, most gardeners will need to divide their perennials at some point. Here are some guidelines. |
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Trench Planting Your Root Crops A quick way to improve soil for root crops... |
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May Is for Mulching Decorate and protect your beds now, before the heat of summer sets in. |
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Roger Cook |
Fall Fertilizing Why autumn is the right time of year to nourish your yard. |
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Get Ready for Fall Now's the best time to spruce up your yard |
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Planting Onions Plant your sets early in the spring. Onions do best if the temperature is cool when they start to grow, and warm as they mature. |
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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
June 2000
William Bryant Logan |
Helping Plants to Help Themselves Mycorrhizal fungi promote plant growth and reduce fertilizer dependence |
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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. |
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Winter Plant Tip: Buy Ugly Dormant bare-root plants make for a wise cold-weather purchase. |
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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). |
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Deborah Wechsler |
Ten Steps to Giant Tomatoes If you want to join the ranks of supergrowers in your area, follow these 10 steps. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2000
Joseph R. Provey |
Green Pastures Not all lawns that are in bad shape need to be replaced. A well-executed restoration plan can bring all but the worst turf back to life. |
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Patt Kasa |
Shop for Trees & Shrubs Years of experience have helped me hone my detective skills and I've developed an almost fool-proof method of choosing the healthiest specimens for my landscape. You can become a savvy shopper, too, by following these same guidelines. |
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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. |
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Preparing Soil for Greens When it's early in the season and nearly time to plant a host of greens, put in a little time with your garden soil to prevent weed problems. |
