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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. |
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 |
Blossom End Rot Blossom End Rot (BER) is a physiological disorder of tomatoes, peppers, and cucurbits caused by a calcium imbalance within the plant. The result is a water-soaked spot at the blossom end of the plant that enlarges, turning dark brown and leathery. |
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 Carolyn Male |
Tomato Diseases Forewarned is forearmed: how to read your tomato leaves. |
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 |
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 June 2000 Beth Marie Renaud |
Tomatoes in a Can Growing full-size tomatoes in containers saves space and protects plants from disease |
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 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 Deborah Wechsler |
Growing Giant Tomatoes All about growing really humongous plants and tomatoes |
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 Jack Ruttle |
Weird Tomatoes Heirloom tomatoes offer diverse characteristics and are easy to grow. Five top heirlooms are suggested. |
National Gardening National Gardening editors |
Leave Doomed Tomatoes on the Vine Plastic mulch is the quickest way to ripe fruit... |
National Gardening Diane Bilderback |
All About Dahlias These easy-to-grow plants produce prolific flowers in the summer and the fall. |
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 Charlie Nardozzi |
Those Bloomin' Holiday Gifts How to keep holiday gift plants at their best year-round... |
National Gardening Kris Wetherbee |
Meet the Asian Pears Growing your own is the surest way to experience them at peak flavor |
National Gardening |
Oriental Poppy Sporting huge, cup-shaped blooms in early summer, the Oriental poppy is the most striking of the perennial poppies, and the delicate, papery flowers belie the plant's hardiness and durability. But you should still heed these tips. |
National Gardening Eliot Tozer |
A Gardener's Guide to Frost How to predict when it's coming and what to do about it... |
National Gardening Robert E. Gough |
The Mighty Lingonberry Why, where, how to grow lingonberries. |
National Gardening |
Insect Pests of Tomatoes Here's some basic information on several widespread pests that, like you, hanker for tomatoes. |
National Gardening Shila Patel |
Drying Tomatoes Drying tomatoes is simple and the results -- delicious |
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 |
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 Jack Ruttle |
All-American Daylilies No other perennial gives as much for so little |
National Gardening Jack Ruttle |
The Tomato-Vetch Connection A USDA-devised mulch system is revolutionizing tomato farming... |
National Gardening Skip Richter |
A Tomato a Day May Keep the Doctor Away Apart from being a rich source of vitamins A and C, folic acid, and potassium, tomatoes have an additional beneficial nutrient. The compound lycopene, present in tomatoes and some other fruits and vegetables, is a powerful antioxidant that may help prevent cancer and other serious diseases. |
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. |
National Gardening Barbara Pleasant |
Marvelous Mums Plant these hardy fall-bloomers now or in spring |
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 |
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 Charlie Nardozzi |
Winter Annuals A colorful way to garden this winter... |
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 Kim Haworth |
Cymbidium Orchids Cymbidium orchids, with many showy, colorful blooms on each flower spike, are my favorites. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
The National Gardening Greenhouse The season never ends in the home solarium. |
National Gardening |
Container Gardening 101 Today's condominium owners and apartment dwellers do not have to forsake gardening. In fact, they can create their own garden hideaway in small spaces. |
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 |
Peach Essentials Tips for growing peaches |
National Gardening |
Big Pots - Early Tomatoes Large containers are attributed to the success of growing early tomatoes. |
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. |
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. |
National Gardening David Cavagnaro |
Amaranths: Ancient and Modern Heirloom curiosities or New Age food plants? |
National Gardening June 2000 Charlie Nardozzi |
Delightful Delphiniums New forms of these classic garden flower are more heat tolerant |
This Old House Marjorie E. Gage |
Reining in Water Use Ground rules for creating a lush yard that doesn't squander the available supply of H2O. |
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 Carol Deppe |
Breeding Your Own Squash A guide to plant breeding and seed saving in the squash and pumpkin patch... |
National Gardening Alice Knight |
Winter Heaths Early fall is prime time to plant these hardy long-blooming evergreens. |
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 |
Gardening Fact or Fallacy? Though plants, soils and weather conditions are always evolving, it seems as if some gardening practices become embedded like fossils. |