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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	Corn: Planting Variations If you like experimenting, there are some variations on the basic planting methods you may want to try.
National Gardening	Cultivating Greens Weeds are green and while some, like lamb's quarters and purslane, can be eaten as greens, you really don't want them growing in among your salad crops. They steal moisture, fertilizer and sunlight.
Popular Mechanics April 2009	How to Build and Install Raised Garden Beds These controlled experiments in plant parenthood are so easy, in fact, that they're also well-suited to novices picking up a shovel for the first time.
National Gardening	Tools for Planting Using the right tools and the proper techniques will not only make planting less of a chore, but also a greater success.
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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.
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This Old House Roger Cook	May Is for Mulching Decorate and protect your beds now, before the heat of summer sets in.
National Gardening	Establishing a Wildflower Meadow A how-to guide for planting a wildflower meadow.
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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	Corn Care Corn doesn't need any more attention than other garden vegetables, but it's a crop that can take up a fair amount of time if you plant a lot. Make it easier by combining tasks.
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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.
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 Deborah Wechsler	Growing Giant Tomatoes All about growing really humongous plants and tomatoes
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This Old House Lynn Ocone	Say Good-bye to Weeds Think it's an overstatement to call it the war against weeds? Here's what you're up against...
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This Old House Roger Cook	Smart Sprinkling When the skies are cloudless and the days are hot and long, you can help your lawn and garden survive by watering wisely
This Old House Roger Cook	Right Plant, Right Spot Follow these 4 rules for plant shopping and you'll never end up with a garden misfit
National Gardening	Planting and Care of Annual Flowers When it comes to cut flowers, it's hard to beat annuals for their sheer production and ease of growing.
This Old House Roger Cook	Spring Is Here -- Where Do I Start? April's the time to head outdoors for the annual landscape cleanup.
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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.
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.
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This Old House Roger Cook	Fall Fertilizing Why autumn is the right time of year to nourish your yard.
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National Gardening Cathy White	Building a Pond Garden Reap the pleasures of water by adding a pond to your garden.
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	Naturalizing with Tulips Species tulips and hybrids of Tulipa fosteriana, T. greigii, and T. kaufmanniana are ideal candidates for naturalizing, as they spread rapidly by seed, stolons, and bulblets.
National Gardening	Planting Grapes The fall before you plant, mark the location for your vines. Get rid of all weeds, especially perennial ones, as your vines can easily survive 30 years or more in the same location.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Arsenic-Eating Fern Researchers at Edenspace Systems, a leader in phytoextraction -- using plants to extract poisonous chemicals, such as arsenic, lead, and uranium from the soil -- have found a plant that loves sucking arsenic out of the soil.
National Gardening	Planning a Low-Maintenance Landscape Landscapes that require minimum time and money to maintain require thoughtful planning and installation. So invest early in planning and structures, and you'll pay (and work) less later.
This Old House September 2007 Roger Cook	Fall Groundwork "This is prime time to prep your yard for the next growing season," says our landscape contractor.
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