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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 |
Pruning Brambles Pruning reduces the chance of pest invasion and infection, allows better air circulation and light exposure and, ultimately, more fruit. |
National Gardening |
Blackberry Essentials Tips for growing blackberries |
National Gardening |
Preparing for Raspberries Raspberries are so delicate and perishable they're scarce at the supermarket and fruit stands and expensive if you find them. Fortunately, they're easy to grow at home. |
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 Carolyn Male |
Tomato Diseases Forewarned is forearmed: how to read your tomato leaves. |
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 Robert E. Gough |
The Mighty Lingonberry Why, where, how to grow lingonberries. |
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 |
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 |
Buying Strawberry Plants What to look for and know when buying strawberry plants. |
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 Kris Wetherbee |
Meet the Asian Pears Growing your own is the surest way to experience them at peak flavor |
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 |
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 |
How to Prune Summer-Bearing Raspberries Late winter or early spring, just at the end of the dormant season, is the best time to prune summer-bearing red raspberries. Here's how. |
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 |
Growing Giant Tomatoes All about growing really humongous plants and tomatoes |
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. |
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 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 |
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 |
Planting Groundcover Use low-growing perennial plants and shrubs as groundcovers to cover slopes and rough ground or to replace high-maintenance lawns. Choose plants that thrive in your particular soil and climate. |
National Gardening December 1999 National Gardening Association |
They Live On Air... Exotic-looking tillandsias are easy to display and maintain, and make ideal houseplants |
This Old House February 2, 2001 Warren Schultz |
Getting the Best Deal on Plants Your guide to buying plants for the upcoming growing season... |
National Gardening |
Getting Started With Perennials First, we dispel a common myth: You don't need to be an expert gardener to grow perennials. Then we answer a few common questions about perennials. |
This Old House Lynn Ocone |
Houseplants for People Who Can't Grow Houseplants No matter the color of your thumb, this guide will help you select and care for plants that will thrive. |
National Gardening Jane von Trapp |
Entry Garden Make-Over A front entrance garden has to be functional and inviting, but where do you begin? |
National Gardening National Gardening editors |
Leave Doomed Tomatoes on the Vine Plastic mulch is the quickest way to ripe fruit... |
This Old House Peter V. Fossel |
Coming Up Roses Climbers and ramblers will cover a trellis, an arbor, even a shed roof, with a profusion of blooms. |
This Old House Jeanne Huber |
Planting in Pots Container gardens are a movable feast for the senses. Here's how to assemble and care for knockout combinations |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Winterizing Modern Roses If you grow grafted, modern bush roses such as hybrid teas, floribundas and grandifloras in USDA Hardiness Zone 6 and colder, you must provide winter protection to ensure their survival. Protect the graft union first. |
This Old House Peter V. Fossel |
Coming Up Roses Climbers and ramblers will cover a trellis, an arbor, even a shed roof, with a profusion of blooms |
Science News April 20, 2002 Janet Raloff |
Berry Colorful Nutrition News (with recipes) A new study now suggests that raspberries contain compounds that retard biochemical processes underpinning many degenerative diseases and symptoms of aging... |
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 |
Pruning Trees and Shrubs With a little instruction and some common sense, you'll be able to prune your trees, shrubs, and roses like a pro and have beautifully shaped, flowering plants to boot. |
Popular Mechanics June 13, 2008 Erin McCarthy |
5 Reasons Why Researchers Say The Happening Is Junk Science In these days of melting ice caps and wild weather, M. Night Shyamalan's new movie poses an interesting question: What happens if the environment, spurred by centuries of pollution and disregard, turns against us? |