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National Gardening	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.
This Old House July 6, 2000 Denny Schrock	Working the Bugs Out Here's a safe and effective system to control the plant-eating pests in your yard.
National Gardening	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.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Summer's Bad Guys A guide to some of the most common garden pests and their controls...
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.
National Gardening	Flea Beetle Flea beetles can spread diseases such as early blight to potatoes or bacterial wilt to corn, and larvae feed on roots.
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.
National Gardening Whitney Cranshaw	The "Do-Good" Bugs A guide to choosing and using beneficial insects, mites and nematodes...
National Gardening	Corn Diseases, Insects, and Pests Most of the trouble gardeners have with corn is easily controlled.
National Gardening Mark Whitelaw	Growing Roses the Natural Way 14 friendly remedies for rose pests and diseases
National Gardening	Cucumber Beetle They are more dangerous to their cucumber family hosts than many pests because they transmit deadly diseases -- mosaic and bacterial wilts.
National Gardening	Asparagus Beetle Two species are common. One is blue-black and common throughout the U.S. The other is orange with black spots. Both adults and larvae feed on developing spears, and later in the season, on ferny foliage.
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...
National Gardening	Colorado Potato Beetle If you see in your garden a small yellow beetle with black stripes over its wings and black spots just behind its head, say hello to the Colorado potato beetle. Potatoes are its first love, but this beetle will eagerly consume leaves of potato relatives eggplant, ground cherry, peppers, tomato, and tomatillo.
National Gardening Jack Ruttle	Get A Head The reason a lot of people start taking cabbage for granted is that it often turns out to be too much of a good thing. With a little planning before you plant, you can arrange your harvest according to your needs.
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 Whitney Cranshaw	Healthy Home Orchards Use basic pest control techniques to harvest a healthy fruit crop.
National Gardening	Scale Different species of scale insects attack various kinds of fruits in all parts of the country.
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 July 2, 2003 Cathy Cromell	Garden Guru: Whitney Cranshaw Often called upon to bridge the gap between the interests of insects and the interests of humans, Colorado author and entomology professor Whitney Cranshaw uses Integrated Pest Management's premise of working with the natural life cycles of insects to control pest problems with less pesticide.
National Gardening	Corn Rootworm Corn rootworm is most likely a problem in gardens where corn has grown for two seasons or more.
National Gardening Deborah Wechsler	Growing Giant Tomatoes All about growing really humongous plants and tomatoes
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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 Barbara E. Richardson	High-tech Dust Foils Pests Modified kaolin clay ushers in a new era in plant protection...
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National Gardening Michael Phillips	Growing Organic Apples How to grow blemish-free apples without resorting to unfriendly sprays
National Gardening	Tarnished Plant Bug Called "tarnished" for its brown-coppery color, this otherwise unassuming little bug is a major pest, especially for commercial growers.
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	Tomato Problems Some problems with tomatoes are not caused by insects or diseases. Here are a few common problems.
National Gardening Deborah Wechsler	Ten Steps to Giant Tomatoes If you want to join the ranks of supergrowers in your area, follow these 10 steps.
Chemistry World April 29, 2014 Emma Stoye	Tomatoes' cry for help turned into chemical weapon to battle insects Tomato plants not only take heed of their neighbours chemical 'warnings' but actually convert the signals into substances to defend themselves against imminent insect attack, researchers in Japan have discovered.
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National Gardening June 2000 Beth Marie Renaud	Tomatoes in a Can Growing full-size tomatoes in containers saves space and protects plants from disease
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National Gardening	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.
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.
National Gardening	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	Organic Gardening 101 The gardener who is committed to organic gardening does not simply boycott artificial chemical fertilizers and pesticides. He or she is committed to techniques that build healthy soil.
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National Gardening	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).