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National Gardening	Timing The Potato Planting Potatoes can be planted very early in the season -- almost as soon as the frost is out of the ground and you're able to work the soil. In the North, you can plant your first crop of early maturing potatoes in April, usually six to eight weeks before the last frost.
National Gardening	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.
National Gardening	Harvesting Potatoes After all your work of planting and caring for your potato plants, here's how to get the most from your harvest.
National Gardening	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.
National Gardening	Caring for Potatoes Caring for potatoes requires proper watering, cultivating and hilling.
The Motley Fool July 1, 2011 Jacob Roche	Mr. Market Mistakes Good News for Bad What's going on with these fertilizer stocks?
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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.
National Gardening Kathy Bond Borie	Seed Catalog Savvy Reading between the lines to find the best varieties for your garden...
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	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	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).
National Gardening	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?
National Gardening	Corn: Planting Variations If you like experimenting, there are some variations on the basic planting methods you may want to try.
National Gardening Carol Deppe	Breeding Your Own Squash A guide to plant breeding and seed saving in the squash and pumpkin patch...
This Old House Therese Ciesinski	Check out These Seeds From Your Local Library Of the roughly 17,000 public libraries across the country, about 350 are now "lending" seeds, up from just a handful 15 years ago.
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BusinessWeek June 9, 2011 Bjerga & McFerron	U.S. Weather Woes May Mean Higher Food Prices With corn fields under water and wheat withering in Western heat, grain prices could soon soar, boosting already high worldwide food costs
Job Journal November 16, 2003 Marty Nemko	Seeds of Success What roses and a job search have in common.
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Popular Mechanics September 19, 2008 Ryan M. Wilson	How to Plant for Fall and Prepare Your Garden for Winter Planting a fall garden can be a rewarding effort and a great start to preparing your entire yard for winter's dormancy as the last head of lettuce is plucked.
National Gardening	Annuals and Perennials for Containers Learn the differences between annuals and perennials, and use this guide for planting and caring for them in containers.
Science News September 14, 2002 Janet Raloff	Afghanistan's Seed Banks Destroyed On Sept. 10, scientists in Kabul reported the loss of Afghanistan's principal agricultural insurance policy: two stores of carefully collected seeds, materials selected to represent the genetic diversity of native crops.
National Gardening	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.
The Motley Fool April 6, 2005 W.D. Crotty	Fast-Blooming Biotech Monsanto's net sales and net income soar in the second quarter. Is it time to buy this stock?
National Gardening Jack Ruttle	Starting Impatiens from Seed Impatiens is considered a light-lover, but gardeners and commercial growers often complain of weak or spotty germination and seedlings with widely varying vigor...
Insurance & Technology April 2, 2004 Julie Gallagher	IIABA Resists Crop Offering Association opposes online crop insurance sales as too complex.
National Gardening	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.
National Gardening	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.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2008 Brian Orelli	Will the Agriculture Sector Bust? Prices can't go up forever.
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Wired May 22, 2007 Lucas Graves	In the Event of Global Disaster, the Ultimate Crop Backup System The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is the first comprehensive effort to protect the world's agricultural gene pool.
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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.
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.
The Motley Fool January 13, 2012 Dan Caplinger	What Cheaper Food Means for Your Portfolio Corn prices plummeted yesterday. Here's how you can win from it.
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Chemistry World November 25, 2014 Rebecca Trager	US approves low acrylamide spud The US Department of Agriculture has approved the first genetically engineered potato variety designed to produce less of the suspected carcinogen acrylamide when cooked.
Inc. July 2007	Term Sheets If you've given extra shares to seed investors, get them to give them up - or forget about raising VC funds.
Popular Mechanics April 2008 Roy Berendsohn	Your Best Lawn Ever: PM's Guide to the Perfect Backyard Think of your lawn as a crop that's harvested once a week. It takes a lot of nutrition, water and care to keep it growing. Here's the action plan.
Chemistry World February 7, 2013 Andrew Turley	BASF drops GM potato projects BASF has announced that it is no longer seeking EU marketing approval for its controversial genetically modified potatoes.
BusinessWeek April 16, 2007 Gene G. Marcial	Farmers Rely On Syngenta In Their Fields The boom in corn planting has been a boon to Syngenta, and its stock has jumped.
Sports Central February 26, 2014 Andrew Jones	Sorting Out the One Seeds From the Twos As the college basketball season winds down, we're met with questions of bubble teams, road wins, strength of schedule, and my personal favorite debate this time of year: who deserves the number one seeds.
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