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    How To Use Beer Traps to Catch Slugs – & The Big Mistake to Avoid

    If you’ve got slugs, one of the best ways to get rid of them is to open up a bar. Yes, it appears that, like many of us, after working hard in the garden all day, slugs also appreciate a beer. Slug traps that employ this bubbly beverage are cheap, easy to set up and maintain, and more...
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    4-Ingredient All-Natural Deer Repellent for Your Garden

    When you live in an area with a high deer population, sometimes you find yourself wondering just who you’re growing all these vegetables and flowers for – you or Bambi? But you can keep deer from nibbling your azaleas and asparagus with this easy-to-make deer repellent recipe. Who Is This...
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    It’s Time to Wrap Your Cucumber & Squash Stems in Aluminum Foil

    I’ve been eating mini cucumbers from the grocery store all winter long. But I ate my very first homegrown cucumber of the season the other day, and it stopped me in my tracks. Standing there in my kitchen, I thought, “Now that’s what a cucumber is supposed to taste like.” It was so crunchy, with...
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    Handy Tricks to Ripen Tomatoes Faster This Summer

    Isn’t it funny how, as gardeners, our favorite thing to grow is often the most problematic? I probably don’t even need to say it to know we’re all thinking about tomatoes. If it isn’t some weird soil disease or a chomping pest, it’s fruit that seems to hang around all summer without actually...
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    Bad Garden Hygiene Can Spread Disease Among Your Vegetables

    Did you know you might be contributing to the spread of diseases in your garden? We all like to think we would never be so careless. After all, we spend a lot of time taking good care of our plants. But there are a few things we all do without even thinking about it. These bad habits...
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    Why Home Gardeners Should Stop Using Crop Rotation

    Crop rotation is the practice of rotating the types of vegetables you grow in a given section of your garden each year. The idea behind it is to reduce the pest load, prevent the spread of plant diseases, and allow the soil to recover its nutrients after growing heavy-feeding crops. Whether...
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    Vegetables You Can Still Plant in August by Hardiness Zone

    Whether you’re holding on to the last few weeks of summer for dear life or praying for it to hurry up and end, one thing is clear – August begins the countdown to the end of summer. While I’m over here dreaming of crisp mornings on the porch with coffee and a sweater, I’m also eyeing my garden...
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    5 Popular Gardening Trends I No Longer Use in My Garden

    When you think about something as old as gardening, rarely do you think of the word “trendy.” But just like with everything else, trends pop up in the gardening community. And just like everywhere else, those trends come and go. Remember when we were all growing tomatoes upside down in 5-gallon...
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    7 August Garden Jobs That Can Make or Break Your Garden

    August has always struck me as a weird month. It’s a month of impatient transition. We’re still dealing with the scorching temperatures of summer; the countertop is hidden beneath a myriad of tomatoes, and if you say zucchini is on the menu for dinner, there’s an audible groan. Yet, there’s a...
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    Stop Ruining Your Tomatoes in the Fridge – Do This Instead

    Gardeners know the absolute joy of tasting a homegrown tomato, bitten into, right off the vine. It’s why so many of us turn our noses up at those tasteless things in the grocery store. The sweetness, tang and aroma can’t be beat. It truly is summer in a bite. However, if you take that same...
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    15 Perennial Vegetables & Fruits to Plant in Fall & Harvest for Years

    Fall is a time for cozy sweaters, pumpkin spice beer (I’ll leave the lattes to others) and chilly nights around the fire pit. It’s the time when we finish preserving our harvest and button up our gardens for winter. But it also happens to be the perfect time to plant long-lived crops that show...
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    Vegetables You Can Still Plant in September (No Matter Where You Live)

    By the time September rolls around, there are two types of vegetable gardeners. There are the ones that say, “Garden? What garden? That was summer. This is fall. I’m going to pick apples and buy mums, leave me alone.” And then there are those of us, frantically sorting through our seed packets...
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    Plant Asparagus This Fall & Harvest Next Spring – No Waiting!

    It’s fall, and that means it’s time to plant asparagus! I know, traditionally, asparagus is planted in the spring. But there are some solid reasons to start your asparagus on the other end of the growing season instead. Plus, if you’re impatient, like me, I’ll share how you can start harvesting...
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