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National Gardening 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.
National Gardening	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.
National Gardening National Gardening editors	Choosing Pea Varieties Peas are fun and easy to raise because they take very little work and mature rapidly. It's possible to grow them in any part of the country, even though English and edible-podded peas prefer cool, moist weather.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Edamame A favorite Asian snack: While the typical home garden use of soybeans is as a cover crop, some varieties of the common soybean (Glycine max) have been bred to be eaten fresh.
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	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 Jack Ruttle	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.
National Gardening	Preparing to Plant Peas Peas are everyone's garden favorite. There's nothing like the taste of fresh sweet peas in spring. Here's some history and tips on planting peas.
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.
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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National Gardening	Whiteflies Found throughout the United States. These tiny, insects feed in large numbers on leaf undersides of tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, and other plants by sucking out plant juices.
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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.
Science News September 17, 2005 Janet Raloff	Using Light to Sense Plants' Health and Diversity A new experimental laser device promises speedy and more-detailed maps of crop-nutrition needs by taking readings from plants themselves as a tractor or other vehicle moves through a field.
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 Ann Whitman	Making a Water Garden in a Tub To the uninitiated, water gardens seem complicated, expensive, and fussy. But many of the principles of gardening in water are the same as those for gardening in soil. If you can grow a tomato, you can grow a water lily.
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National Gardening	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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