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Healthy Home Orchards Use basic pest control techniques to harvest a healthy fruit crop.   |
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Apple Diseases Any of the three fungal diseases described here -- scab, cedar apple rust and powdery mildew -- can cause serious defoliation that threatens not just the quality of your apple crop but the future health of your trees as well. |
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Summer's Bad Guys A guide to some of the most common garden pests and their controls... |
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Apple Essentials Tips on planting, tending, and harvesting |
National Gardening
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Growing Roses the Natural Way 14 friendly remedies for rose pests and diseases |
This Old House
July 6, 2000
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Working the Bugs Out Here's a safe and effective system to control the plant-eating pests in your yard. |
National Gardening
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Meet the Asian Pears Growing your own is the surest way to experience them at peak flavor |
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. |
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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
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High-tech Dust Foils Pests Modified kaolin clay ushers in a new era in plant protection... |
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Insect Pests of Tomatoes Here's some basic information on several widespread pests that, like you, hanker for tomatoes. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Peach Essentials Tips for growing peaches |
National Gardening
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Pruning Fruit Trees How to get young trees off to a good start and keep mature trees productive... |
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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. |
National Gardening
Lance Walheim |
What's New With Deciduous Fruit? New tree fruit varieties don't appear very often, but when they do, it usually points to a significant development in flavor, hardiness, or disease resistance. |
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Peach Tree Borer Peach tree borer is mostly a problem in California, but can occur wherever peaches grow. |
National Gardening
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The "Do-Good" Bugs A guide to choosing and using beneficial insects, mites and nematodes... |
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Growing Apples Apples require a fair amount of patience planning. If you want a choice crop, you'll have to control insects, diseases, and other pests, worry about the weather, prune every year, keep up the harvest, and gather drops before they clog the lawn mower |
This Old House
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Putting Down Roots How to add a tree to your yard---the right way. |
This Old House
December 2007
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Choose a Live Christmas Tree Choose a live tree to extend the holiday spirit long past Christmas. Buy one now, plant it later, then watch it grow year after year. |
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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
Robert Kourik |
Gardening Fact or Fallacy? Though plants, soils and weather conditions are always evolving, it seems as if some gardening practices become embedded like fossils. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Minerals for Soil How to use rock-based fertilizers and amendments to increase the vitality of your soil |
| 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
Charlie Nardozzi |
EZ Pick Fruit Trees These naturally dwarf trees grow only 6 to 10 feet tall, are easy to care for, and are perfect for small families. Available in apple, peach, pear, and other varieties. |
| Garden Gate |
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. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Soil Testing If you've heard it once, you've heard it a hundred times: every garden should have its soil tested. |
| 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
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
Lance Walheim |
How to Buy and Plant Trees Improve the health and longevity of your trees... |
This Old House
Sal Vaglica |
Christmas Tree 101 Tips on how to buy the perfect tree, and what to do with it when you get home. |
National Gardening
Margery Guest |
On Becoming a Master Gardener Master Gardeners are a diverse lot. They come in many ages and from all walks of life. But the one thing they all have in common is the desire to share gardening knowledge and experience with other gardeners. |
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. |
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Improve Soil Fertility with Compost A little soil common sense will go a long way to helping you understand how to care for your garden. All soils are not the same; they differ in many ways, including texture, fertility, and pH. |
Science News
September 21, 2002
Janet Raloff |
A Dairy Solution to Mildew Woes Milk may prove the savior of some organic wines. New field trials show that it kills a powdery mildew that would otherwise damage vine leaves and destroy grapes. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Got Mildew? Get Milk! Is your garden plagued with powdery mildew on your bee balm, phlox, grapes, squash, and pumpkins? New research from Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand describes a household remedy that's easy to use and as effective as many chemical fungicides: milk. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Soil Common Sense Five simple home tests for basic soil problems, with proven remedies |
| National Gardening |
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. |
National Gardening
Skip Richter |
Turn Leaves into Gold These golden leaves can be turned into "black gold" for the garden. They make great soil-enriching compost or a protective mulch. |
This Old House
Max Alexander |
A Tree for All Seasons Trim it now, plant it later, and watch it grow through the years. |
Popular Mechanics
September 5, 2008
Joseph Truini |
9 Steps to Planting a Tree (and Saving a Buck) There's never been a better time to grab a shovel and get planting. Here's what to do if you're transplanting a sapling tree from a nursery, as opposed to starting with seeds, in nine easy steps. |
National Gardening
Shila Patel |
Peaches, Plums, Nectarines: When to Harvest Tree fruits are beginning to ripen this month, so we asked an expert on the subject how to harvest fruit at its absolute peak. |
Popular Mechanics
April 1998
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Gardening Guide: Planting Mature Trees Cut years off your landscaping schedule with the right equipment and transplanting know-how... |
| National Gardening |
Improving Clay Soil If your garden has heavy clay soil, you know what a challenge it can pose to plants, not to mention gardeners. Heavy clay drains slowly, meaning it stays saturated longer after rain or irrigation. |
| National Gardening |
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. |
| The Family Room |
The Care & Feeding of Christmas Trees Every tree trimmer's nightmare is the tree that immediately loses all its needles and becomes drier than the Nevada dessert in a mere matter of days. Don't let this happen to your tree... |
| National Gardening |
Cabbage Looper This catepillar can harm your plants. How can you control it? |
Smithsonian
November 2006
Eric Jaffe |
Unwelcome Guests A team of researchers has discovered a pattern in the gypsy moth's advance that might go a long way toward curbing the American invasion -- a battle that has cost roughly $200 million in the past 20 years. |
