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Cutting Back Lilies

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My lily flowers have now died, and are ready to be deadheaded. Before heading out front with my clippers, I thought I'd do a little rese...

My Good Veggie Crops This Year...

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...have been tomatoes, beans, peas, zucchini and cucumber. Here's a picture of some tomatoes and beans I picked recently. My biggest cha...

Potato Growing Tips

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My potato crop was a little light this year, so I thought I'd give myself a potato growing refresher: Rotate planting location on a 3 ye...

Brussel Sprouts Info

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This is a new crop for me: Brussel sprouts . I planted them for the first time this spring, and the plants have thrived. Thrived, but... no...

Pollinating Strawberries, and Hand Pollination

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Strawberries, while technically being self-pollinating, do benefit from some help. Many gardeners find that hand pollination of their strawb...

Pollinating Blueberries

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Last year I bought two small blueberry bushes, which both had flowers at the time of purchase. I brought them home and planted them on eithe...

Pollination Terminology

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Pollination is a fairly involved topic that I am just beginning to learn. Here is some basic terminology: Male flowers: produce pollen and ...

Ripening Tomatoes

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Tomatoes taste best when they're ripened on the vine, but sometimes there isn't time before the first frost in the fall. This happen...

Growing New Plants From Old, Without Buying New Stock

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My Father-In-Law bought marigold seeds once , years ago. He plants them every year in our garden but he uses seeds from his own previously g...

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