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National Gardening Michael Phillips |
Growing Organic Apples How to grow blemish-free apples without resorting to unfriendly sprays |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Summer's Bad Guys A guide to some of the most common garden pests and their controls... |
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 Whitney Cranshaw |
The "Do-Good" Bugs A guide to choosing and using beneficial insects, mites and nematodes... |
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. |
National Gardening Kris Wetherbee |
Meet the Asian Pears Growing your own is the surest way to experience them at peak flavor |
National Gardening Mark Whitelaw |
Growing Roses the Natural Way 14 friendly remedies for rose pests and diseases |
National Gardening William Ross |
Fruit Trees in Containers For folks who want to grow their own fruit, but who don't have adequate space or a suitable climate, growing fruit in containers offers several opportunities. |
National Gardening |
Insect Pests of Tomatoes Here's some basic information on several widespread pests that, like you, hanker for tomatoes. |
National Gardening Barbara E. Richardson |
High-tech Dust Foils Pests Modified kaolin clay ushers in a new era in plant protection... |
National Gardening Lee Reich |
Pruning Fruit Trees How to get young trees off to a good start and keep mature trees productive... |
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 |
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 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 Charlie Nardozzi |
EZ Pick Fruit Trees These naturally dwarf trees grow only 6 to 10 feet tall, are easy to care for, and are perfect for small families. Available in apple, peach, pear, and other varieties. |
National Gardening |
Apple Essentials Tips on planting, tending, and harvesting |
National Gardening |
Peach Essentials Tips for growing peaches |
National Gardening |
Peach Care Peaches do best in well-drained, sandy soils. Plant in the spring so the tree will be well established by winter. |
National Gardening |
Peach Tree Borer Peach tree borer is mostly a problem in California, but can occur wherever peaches grow. |
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 Nan Sterman |
Hardy Kiwi Have you tasted these remarkable miniature kiwis yet? Every bit as delicious as the larger, more familiar fuzzy kiwi, hardy kiwis are much easier to grow and eat (skin and all). |
National Gardening |
Scale Different species of scale insects attack various kinds of fruits in all parts of the country. |
Food Processing February 2010 Dave Fusaro |
Plan Now for This Summer's Pests Old pest management solutions are being phased out; new technologies are arriving. |
Chemistry World June 23, 2015 Ida Emilie Steinmark |
Fruity alternative to toxic insecticides A compound found in fruit could be the safe insect repellent of the future, according to a group of scientists from the University of California, Riverside in the US. |
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 Robert Kourik |
Fabulous Figs Which fig tastes best? Is it 'Panachee', 'Celeste', or perhaps 'Conadria'? |
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 Shila Patel |
Peaches, Plums, Nectarines: When to Harvest Tree fruits are beginning to ripen this month, so we asked an expert on the subject how to harvest fruit at its absolute peak. |
National Gardening |
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. |
National Gardening |
Planting and Pruning Plums European plums grow in tight clusters, but require little thinning. |
National Gardening Lewis & Nancy Hill |
Seaberry Among the recent horticultural arrivals from Russia and central Asia is the seaberry, also known as sea buckthorn |
Food Processing September 2012 David Phillips |
Seasonal Approaches To Pest Control Can Prevent A Cold-Weather Invasion As summer ends and winter approaches, food plant managers need to change their focus and strategy if they want to keep insects and rodents out of their plants. |
National Gardening Lance Walheim |
What's New With Deciduous Fruit? New tree fruit varieties don't appear very often, but when they do, it usually points to a significant development in flavor, hardiness, or disease resistance. |
National Gardening |
Planning for Peaches As with most fruit trees, the trick is to start out with the peach variety that suits your climate. |
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. |
This Old House Lynn Ocone |
Putting Down Roots How to add a tree to your yard---the right way. |
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. |
Food Processing September 2011 Bob Sperber |
Pest Management Rules Change for Food Processors Winter's coming, along with new pests, paperwork and an EPA rule that lets mice get closer to your doorstep. |
Food Processing August 2007 Ashman & Beckley |
Product Spotlight: Carbonating Fruit Fizzy Fruit Co. adds carbonation to grapes for a unique - and polarizing - experience. |
Smithsonian November 2006 Eric Jaffe |
Unwelcome Guests A team of researchers has discovered a pattern in the gypsy moth's advance that might go a long way toward curbing the American invasion -- a battle that has cost roughly $200 million in the past 20 years. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams |
Fruit Fly Cells Don't All Know What Sex They Are HHMI scientists have now found that many cells in male and female fruit flies not only look the same, they are more identical at a molecular level than was previously thought. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Decoding Fruit Labels You may have noticed the individual stickers on many fruits in grocery stores. They're not just there to help checkout clerks record the price. The PLU numbered code on the stickers actually can tell you how the fruit was grown. |
Food Processing September 2013 Kevin T. Higgins |
Pest Management Firms Morphing Into One-Stop Bug Shops A warm place to rest and all the food and drink desired describes the appeal of all-inclusive resorts for people -- and food processing facilities for insects and other pests. |
AskMen.com Damon Curzi |
10 Exotic Fruits That Add Kick To Meals From fruit that resembles a hand to fruit that smells like a sewer, there are endless options for spicing up your meals and desserts. And with most tropical and exotic fruits becoming more readily available and reasonably priced, they are certainly worth trying. |
Food Processing June 2007 Lee Stiffler-Meyer |
Dried and true Dried products offer a practical way to introduce real fruits into many products -- but first consider the drying technique. |
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. |
Science News June 11, 2005 Christen Brownlee |
Calories May Not Count in Life Extension A team of researchers has shown in fruit flies that shifting a diet's relative amounts of nutrients, such as carbohydrates, protein, and fat, while only modestly cutting calories, extends life span just as much as a drastic calorie cut does. |
Chemistry World July 12, 2007 John Bonner |
Aphids Defend Colony with Cabbage Chemistry Ladybirds bite off more than they can chew if they try to feed on aphids armed with a chemical weapon based on mustard-oil, researchers report. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Jennifer Michalowski |
Mimicking a Fruit Fly's Natural Environment Yields Genetics Discovery The tiniest hairs on fruit fly larvae have complex genetic controls that David Stern almost missed -- until he took the fruit flies out of their cozy incubators. |
This Old House Deborah Baldwin |
How to Deal With Moths That Munch What attracts these pesky bugs and how to keep them from destroying your sweaters |