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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. |
National Gardening Lee Reich |
Blueberry Prescription A timeless favorite for the garden and the kitchen... |
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 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 Kris Wetherbee |
Meet the Asian Pears Growing your own is the surest way to experience them at peak flavor |
National Gardening Robert E. Gough |
The Mighty Lingonberry Why, where, how to grow lingonberries. |
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 |
Blackberry Essentials Tips for growing blackberries |
National Gardening April 2000 Barbara Pleasant |
Balloon Flower Easy to grow, reliable, looks great as a border -- and it's blue |
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 |
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. |
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 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. |
This Old House |
Winter Plant Tip: Buy Ugly Dormant bare-root plants make for a wise cold-weather purchase. |
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 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 |
Winter Annuals A colorful way to garden this winter... |
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 Michael MacCaskey |
Winter's Hollies Top hollies for your winter garden... |
National Gardening June 2000 Beth Marie Renaud |
Tomatoes in a Can Growing full-size tomatoes in containers saves space and protects plants from disease |
National Gardening John R. Dunmire |
Guide to June Gardening The month may present different images in various parts of the country, but to most gardeners, it conveys feelings of richness, abundance, and completion. |
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. |
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. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Getting Gardens Ready for Winter While gardeners in warmer climes (USDA zones 8 to 10) relish the cool air because it signals fall planting time, most gardeners across the country know it's time to wrap up the garden. |
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 Deborah Wechsler |
Growing Giant Tomatoes All about growing really humongous plants and tomatoes |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Best Winter Annuals For gardeners in the South, fall is the time to switch gears. While northern gardeners are pulling out plants in preparation for freezing temperatures, southern gardeners can plant pansies, violas, and other hardy annuals to provide color from winter to early spring. |
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 February 7, 2003 Joseph F. Williamson |
A Gardener's Guide to Zone Maps Which climate zone do you garden in? Why does it matter? |
National Gardening |
Maintaining Container Gardens These simple maintenance tasks will keep keep your patio planters and window boxes looking their best throughout the growing season and help cold-climate gardeners prepare for winter. |
Food Processing December 2005 David Feder |
Power to the Purple Berries have become "berry berry" popular with consumers and food processors alike, as demonstrated in these healthy, handy applications. |
National Gardening Ben Watson |
Hybrid or Open Pollinated Is one type of vegetable seed better than another? |
National Gardening Amy Bartlett Wright |
Landscaping for Winter Birds Choosing the right trees and shrubs may help you gain many a feathered friend |
National Gardening |
Improving Clay Soil If your garden has heavy clay soil, you know what a challenge it can pose to plants, not to mention gardeners. Heavy clay drains slowly, meaning it stays saturated longer after rain or irrigation. |
National Gardening National Gardening editors |
Leave Doomed Tomatoes on the Vine Plastic mulch is the quickest way to ripe fruit... |
National Gardening |
Choosing Perennial Plants When choosing perennial plants you'll need to consider their hardiness rating, your planting location, and when they flower so you'll have season-long color. |
National Gardening |
Peach Essentials Tips for growing peaches |
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. |
National Gardening |
Buying Strawberry Plants What to look for and know when buying strawberry plants. |
Real Travel Adventures May 2010 Bonnie Neely |
Picking Blueberries In East Texas Secretly, I was dreading the actual "picking." As a city dweller, my limited experiences with picking anything were anything but pleasurable! |
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 Michael MacCaskey |
Heirloom Beans Top chefs pick the most flavorful heirloom beans |
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 |
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. |
National Gardening |
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 |
Food Processing March 2010 Diane Toops |
Food Biz Kids: Our Kids love Flavor Kickers According to our Junior High Tasters, General Mills' Fruit by the Foot Flavor Kickers are 'Needed in the world for junk food snacks!' |
Seasoned Cooking March 2006 Ronda L. Carnicelli |
Taste of Spring Crisp If you are yearning for fresh fruit, and berries in particular, here is a recipe for you. |
Food Processing September 2006 |
Ingredient Round-Up: Fruits, Nuts & Vegetables Caramelized onion... Fruit and berry replacements... Vegetable and herb blends... Fruit acids... Real, cultivated blueberries... etc. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Redwing Viburnum A new viburnum helps birds and gardeners, providing an attractive shrub with gorgeous fall foliage and tasty red berries. |
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. |