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Fall Potato Planting In the South good seed potatoes may not be available for fall planting. Your best bet is to provide your own, even though there's some risk of planting diseased potatoes.   |
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Seed Potatoes Small seed potatoes can be planted whole, but larger ones should first be cut into pieces with at least one eye or recessed dormant bud. |
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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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Caring for Potatoes Caring for potatoes requires proper watering, cultivating and hilling. |
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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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Harvesting Sweet Potatoes With sweet potato plants the vines don't die and signal harvesttime the way white potato vines do. This article tells you the best time to harvest, how to cure your sweet potatos and how to store them. |
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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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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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Working with Onion Transplants Onion transplants may need special care when first planted in the ground. Here are some techniques to keep in mind. |
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Gardening Climates 101 National Gardening has created its own system of 14 "gardening zones." Rather than minimum temperature alone, these regions are defined by largely similar gardening conditions. Expert gardeners in each region report on conditions and happenings in their region twice monthly. |
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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. |
National Gardening
Diane Bilderback |
Multiplying Dahlias One tuber can give you 5 or 6 blooming plants this year. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Fall Garden Cover Crops For healthier soil next spring, sow a cover crop this fall... |
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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. |
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Cabbage Family Greens These cabbage family greens make great additions to any salad garden. |
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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. |
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Planting Peas You can plant peas in a number of different fashions. Check to see which one suits your garden best. |
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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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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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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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Charlie Nardozzi |
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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Charlie Nardozzi |
Wildflowers for the Holidays It's the holiday season and if you're trying to find the right gift for the gardeners in your family, consider wildflowers. |
Science News
December 22, 2007
Janet Raloff |
Food for Thought: It's Spud Time The United Nations wants more people to appreciate the potato's potential to fight world hunger. |
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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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Blossom End Rot Blossom End Rot (BER) is a physiological disorder of tomatoes, peppers, and cucurbits caused by a calcium imbalance within the plant. The result is a water-soaked spot at the blossom end of the plant that enlarges, turning dark brown and leathery. |
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Planting and Care of Annual Flowers When it comes to cut flowers, it's hard to beat annuals for their sheer production and ease of growing. |
National Gardening
Michael MacCaskey |
Summer Bulbs Consider these for summer color |
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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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Sweet Corn Essentials Tips on planting, growing, and harvesting sweet corn. |
National Gardening
Lynn Ocone |
Planning a Vegetable Garden How to design and build a vegetable garden that really works |
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Michael Ableman |
A Prayer for the Pumpkins In the garden as in life, timing is everything. Growing your own Halloween pumpkins is more challenging than buying them... |
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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
Charlie Nardozzi |
Ornamental Sweet Potatoes Grow sweet potatoes for their leaves... |
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... |
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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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Early Spring Bulbs Plan now for fall planting, and come spring you'll be glad you did! |
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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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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. |
National Gardening
Michael MacCaskey |
Getting Started With Tulips If you want to see tulips bloom at winter's end, now is the time to buy bulbs and get them planted. |
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Charlie Nardozzi |
Those Bloomin' Holiday Gifts How to keep holiday gift plants at their best year-round... |
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Bulbs 101 In addition to their charm and beauty, the large and diverse group of plants known as bulbs have a lot going for them: They come in neat little packages, are just about 100 percent guaranteed to bloom the first year they are planted, and are surprisingly pest- and disease-free. |
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Kathy Bond Borie |
Seed Catalog Savvy Reading between the lines to find the best varieties for your garden... |
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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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Establishing a Wildflower Meadow A how-to guide for planting a wildflower meadow. |
National Gardening
Eliot Tozer |
A Gardener's Guide to Frost How to predict when it's coming and what to do about it... |
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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. |
Science News
June 19, 2004
Janet Raloff |
Coming Soon--Spud Lite Florida farmers have begun referring to the new spud as a "low-carb" cultivar. It's poised to hit groceries next January, just in time to take advantage of the low-carbohydrate-diet craze. |
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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. |
Job Journal
November 16, 2003
Marty Nemko |
Seeds of Success What roses and a job search have in common. |
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. |
