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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.   |
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Buying Strawberry Plants What to look for and know when buying strawberry plants. |
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Choosing Tomato Varieties Healthy, vigorous tomato vines can produce a lot of fruit. But of the thousands of varieties available, how do you narrow your choices? |
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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. |
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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. |
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Getting Ready for Strawberries It is not mere pride that makes a freshly picked home-grown strawberry taste better -- it really does. The fresher the berry, the sweeter the taste. Strawberries are high yielders. |
This Old House
March 27, 2001
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Growing Perfect Tomatoes Treat yourself to one of the true pleasures of summer: your own homegrown tomatoes fresh from the vine... |
National Gardening
Carolyn Male |
Tomato Diseases Forewarned is forearmed: how to read your tomato leaves. |
Smithsonian
July 2006
David Karp |
Berried Treasure Why is horticulturalist Jan Swartz so determined to grow an exotic strawberry beloved by Jane Austen? He's searching for what may be the most elusive prize in the highly competitive, secretive, $1.4 billion-a-year strawberry industry. |
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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 |
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Tomato Problems Some problems with tomatoes are not caused by insects or diseases. Here are a few common problems. |
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Winter Plant Tip: Buy Ugly Dormant bare-root plants make for a wise cold-weather purchase. |
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
Charlie Nardozzi |
Grow Space-Saving Tomatoes If you only have a small garden, there are varieties of tomatoes that will fit perfectly into the space. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Set Your Garden Aglow For a number of years plant breeders have been introducing yellow- or light green-leafed varieties of popular shrubs. The goal has been to select plants with attractive foliage that complements the flowers. |
National Gardening
Ben Watson |
Hybrid or Open Pollinated Is one type of vegetable seed better than another? |
National Gardening
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Leave Doomed Tomatoes on the Vine Plastic mulch is the quickest way to ripe fruit... |
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Pruning Brambles Pruning reduces the chance of pest invasion and infection, allows better air circulation and light exposure and, ultimately, more fruit. |
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Blackberry Essentials Tips for growing blackberries |
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
Warren Schultz |
Sweeter Sweet Corn Sugary, enhanced varieties stay sweet longer on the stalk and in the kitchen. |
This Old House
February 2, 2001
Warren Schultz |
Getting the Best Deal on Plants Your guide to buying plants for the upcoming growing season... |
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
Robert E. Gough |
The Mighty Lingonberry Why, where, how to grow lingonberries. |
Entrepreneur
June 2010
Kara Ohngren |
Stay Hungry How Peter D'Amato's strange obsession made him America's biggest dealer of carnivorous plants. |
Food Processing
October 2005
Diane Toops |
Rollout: October's most interesting new food products Thin crust pizza with zero trans fats... Bite-sized cookie from Pepperidge Farm ... Handy flavor sprays... IQF fruit in resealable packages... Fruit-flavored malt-beverage energy drink... Noncarbonated flavored milk beverages... |
This Old House
Deborah Snoonian |
Best Places to Buy Bloomers Great online nurseries you might not yet know about. |
National Gardening
Jack Ruttle |
The Holiday Cactus For lavish winter color, invite these rainforest natives indoors |
National Gardening
June 2000
Charlie Nardozzi |
Delightful Delphiniums New forms of these classic garden flower are more heat tolerant |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Disabled Workers Distribute Free Plants An professional garden photographer started a nonprofit web business to help disabled residents work and to help send unwanted plants all over the country. |
National Gardening
June 2000
Beth Marie Renaud |
Tomatoes in a Can Growing full-size tomatoes in containers saves space and protects plants from disease |
Seasoned Cooking
July 2008
Ronda L. Carnicelli |
Happy Endings A recipe that transforms a ho-hum cake mix into a moist, delicious coconut cake that's terrific when paired with berries -- especially fresh raspberries. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Winter Annuals A colorful way to garden this winter... |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Berries Curb Cancer It's fresh berry season and now there's more reason than ever to keep the fruit bowl full. Raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, and muscadine grapes appear to have cancer-fighting potential. |
