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National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Priming Seeds A new twist to pregermination -- adapted from a technique commercial growers call seed-priming -- offers improved flexibility for gardeners. It offers quick growth similar to that of pregerminated seeds, but the seeds don't need to be planted right away...
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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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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).
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National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Wildflowers for the Holidays It's the holiday season and if you're trying to find the right gift for the gardeners in your family, consider wildflowers.
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 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 Jack Ruttle	Weird Tomatoes Heirloom tomatoes offer diverse characteristics and are easy to grow. Five top heirlooms are suggested.
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.
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National Gardening	Corn: Planting Variations If you like experimenting, there are some variations on the basic planting methods you may want to try.
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
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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.
This Old House Ryan Robbins	Harvesting Seed Help your favorite flowers propagate by collecting and sowing their seeds by hand.
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National Gardening Patt Kasa	Putting the Garden to Bed The short warm days and crisp nights of autumn trigger leaf color changes, and remind me it's time to clean up the garden.
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National Gardening	Tomato Problems Some problems with tomatoes are not caused by insects or diseases. Here are a few common problems.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Sunflower Seeds Can Harm Plants Sclerotinia fungal disease infects nearly 360 different plants, including such favorites as beans, cabbage, tomatoes, lettuce, sunflowers, petunias, zinnias, and poppies. It's not the kind of disease you want to encourage in the garden.
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.
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	Fall Potato Planting In the South good seed potatoes may not be available for fall planting. Your best bet is to provide your own, even though there's some risk of planting diseased potatoes.
Science News August 31, 2002 Ivars Peterson	Golden Blossoms, Pi Flowers Fibonacci numbers (and the golden ratio) come up surprisingly often in nature, from the number of petals in various flowers to the number of scales along a spiral row in a pine cone. How do these numbers and the golden ratio arise?
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National Gardening Ann Whitman	Making a Water Garden in a Tub To the uninitiated, water gardens seem complicated, expensive, and fussy. But many of the principles of gardening in water are the same as those for gardening in soil. If you can grow a tomato, you can grow a water lily.
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