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This week's article is: Growing Potatoes Above Ground in a Lehigh Bin
- Growing Potatoes Above Ground in a Lehigh Bin
- Hey Gardener: Leave those plants alone!
- Maple Tree Wilt and a Timely Tomato Warning
- How to Store, Divide and Force Spring Bulbs
- “Bagworms”: The Caterpillar Pests You Didn’t Know You Had
- Cover Crops for Gardeners
- The Many Faces of Mushroom Soil
- It’s Time to Start Removing Winter Mulch
- What to Fill Your Raised Beds With
- Best Flowers for Cutting
- How to Start Your Own Seeds—if You Dare!
- Is This Your Summer for Backyard Chickens?
- Monkeys are Attacking my Fruit Trees!
- Special Report: Predicted Fresh Produce Inflation Means It's More Important Than Ever to Grow Your Own Food
- Peas Please! They're the Perfect Cool Weather Crop
- Should You re-use old potting soil?
- Special Report: Predicted Fresh Produce Inflation Means It's More Important Than Ever to Grow Your Own Food
- Last Minute Gifts for Gardeners
- Pantry Moths and Other Flying Pests
- Tough year for Christmas Trees
- Spring and Summer Bulb Stories & Beer Fridge Advice
- Handling Worm Poop Over the Winter
- The Art and Etiquette of Fall Leaf collection
- Trapping Stink Bugs by the Box
- When the Ants Come Marching In
- What's a'matter? You got Bulbs in Your Lawn or Something?
- The Legality and Reality of Taking Down Trees
- Should You re-use old potting soil?
- Part 1: Bringing in Your Plants; not Pests and Part 2: Helping Pepper Plants Thrive Over Winter
- Mosquito Trucks: Are They Spraying the Wrong Thing?
- Can you Grow Your Own Kimchi?
- It's Time for the THIRD Season of Gardening
- Deer, Evil Squirrels, Cartoon Dice, Killing a Lawn Softly and Explaining Endorphins
- Contaminated Clippings: Death From the Lawn!
- Why are my Arborvitae Turning Brown?
- A Convincingly Crappy Crepe Calamity
- Baseball is Gardening is Baseball
- Fighting Bugs, Butterflies and Slugs in Scotland
- In Praise of Potatoes
- Is Creosote the Cause When Grass Won't Grow?
- Carolina Reapers: They Are HOT< HOT< HOT!
But They Themselves Don't Like That Level of Heat - Can Floating Goats Control Water Weeds?
- Of Cow Manure and Compost Tea
- What's eating my buds?
- Can You Grow 'Conventional' Plants Organically?
- We'll Have you Rolling in the Clover!
- Growing Grass in the Spring
- Fleabane: The Misunderstood Native Pollinator Plant
- Sulfur: It's not just for Chiggers Anymore!
- "Dandelions Will Make You Wise"
- What to do When Weather Wins
- Growing a Great Pumpkin Patch
- What to Do When Asters Get Too Tall
- Here Come the Cicadas! (or su-kad-ahs if you're British)
- Dancing in the Dark with Rhubarb Or: The noisy secret to super sweetness
- New Thoughts on the Soil-Borne Wilts that Terrify Tomatoes
- How to Start Peas (& Beans) Indoors
- What Should we Do about Worms from Out of Town?
- How to Outwit Terrible Ticks!
- The Healing Power of Hibiscus
- Tall Tales & Rumors: How to Really Use Coffee Grounds
- When Aphids are the Root of the Problem
- A Dogwood Dilemma
- A Tilling Tragedy in the Making
- Grow Your Own Birdseed!
- Are you Making Compost? Or Just Composting?
- Is Rosemary an Insect Repelling Plant?
- After Holiday Holiday Plant Care
- Saving Home Grown Potatoes for Planting
- Pantry Moths and Other Flying Pests
- Black Walnuts: Threat or Menace?
- How to Handle Leaf 'Litter'
- Overwintering Begonias: Begonia Winter Care
- The Best Foundation Plants For the Front of Your House
- Can we Re Populate Our Lightning Bugs
- Preen Herbicide: What is Preen and is it Safe?
- Protecting Blueberries and Other Potted Plants over Winter
- When a Hornets Nest is Harmless
- Garden Flies: How to Get Rid of Flies in a Vegetable Garden
- Yes—You Can Start Pepper Plants in August!
- Lots of Plants Besides Tomatoes Love Eggshells. Slugs Don't.
- The Seed of the Potato Bears Bitter Fruit!
- Horse nettle Beware the Wild Perennial Tomato
- Of Mice and Mint (and Mothballs)
- Potash Fertilizer: How to Get the Right Kind of K in Your N-P-K
- The Not-So-Great Imposter; when Wood Sorrel looks like Clover
- Of Oak Leaves and the Timing of Mulch
- When Drippy Trees Attract Danger
- Controlling Weeds That Have Gone to Seed
- The Problem with Paw Paws
- How to Grow Sweet Potato Vines
- Can Leaf Mulch Hurt Your Garlic Crop
- New Way to Control Asiatic & Japanese Beetles
- Stages of Tomato Ripening and When to Pick Them
- Should You Cover Your Compost
- What's Not to Love About the Linden Tree?
- Did 'possums' make holes in the ground?
- How to Keep Squirrels Out of The Garden: Protect Your Tomatoes & Other Fruits
- Soil Solarization: What it Can and Can't Do
- Peonies and hydrangeas: When is a tree not a tree? (or "I've Seen Peonies from Both Sides Now...")
- Hey Joe: What's in That Mosquito Spray?
- Three Ways to Get Even with Thistle
- How far South Can You Grow Raspberries
- How to Find the Right Grass to Plant in Spring
- Raised Bed Review; Plus Perlite vs. Vermiculite
- What Happens When You Handle Wet Plants?
- Controlling Snails and Slugs
- Ficus disruptus - When Ants Take Over an Indoor Fig
- Tree Stump = Compost—with no work!
- Careful with that Garlic, Eugene!
- Wood Ash and Lilac Soil pH: Do Lilacs Like Acidic Soil?
- Peach Tree Borers and other Un-peachy Realities
- Does the Color Blue Repel Pest Insects? Or Spooks?
- 'Squash Beetles'? Or Squash Bugs?
- Planting Trees & Shrubs--Should You Never Improve the Soil in the Planting Hole?
- Peat Moss Cow Manure Fall leaves What Should You Put in Your Beds
- The Positives and Perils of Volunteer Potatoes
- Chasing Creeping Charlie
- What's the Deal with Epsom Salts?
- Top Tips for Spring Bloom Success NEXT Year!
- Coffee Grounds and Ashes: Uses and NON Uses
- Gardening for the Differently Abled
(And all of us who are Simply Getting Less Young) - These Plants Are for the Birds!
- Hügelkultur & Raised Bed Building
- Praying Mantis: Garden Friend? Or Fiend?
- Exercises to Get You Ready to Garden Without Pain
- Fighting Produce-flation; Tomatoes and Peppers
- It's a Caterpillar! It's a Slug! No--It's a Sawfly!
- The Great Garlic Debate
- Peas Please! They're the Perfect Cool Weather Crop
- Polish Off Your Poison Ivy Without Personal Peril With These Seven Secrets of Successful PI Pullers!
- Of Poop, Prions and Pesky Parasites
- Can you Grow Violets Indoors
- Blue-Winged Wasps and Deadly Yellowjackets
- PULVERIZE Your Garlic!
- Snakes vs Rats in a California Garden
- Questions About Compost
- Support Your Local Garlic!
- Propagating a Perfect Prune Plum
- The Important Secrets of Springtime Mulch
- A New Look at Elderberries
- A Crash Course on Saving Some Seeds for Next Season
- What's Eating my Garden? And are the 'Leftovers' Safe?
- Hey Rube! Where's the Rhubarb??
- What do you do with a Toad in a Pot of Petunias
- Heirloom Rhubarb vs. Oklahoma Summers
- More Seedy Suggestions for Fighting 'Produceflation'
- Special Report: Predicted Fresh Produce Inflation Means It's More Important Than Ever to Grow Your Own Food
- A Baker's Dozen of Things you MUST (or should) do this Fall
- Grass Wars Bermuda vs Fescue in Virginia
- Straw Bales: The Trend That Will Not Die!
- What Went Wrong with my Tomatoes?!
- 'Rock Mulch': Can You Use River Rock as Mulch?
- Did Ants Kill a Tree?
- If a tree falls in the backyard, can you plant something on it?
- Fruit Flies in the Worm Bin
- Can Invasive Asian Ladybugs Control Indoor Plant Pests
- Is There Anything Productive You Can Do With Your Garden When You Need to Take a Year Off?
- What I have learned about Loofa Gourds
- How to Safely Use Railroad Ties for Landscaping
- What Is Peat Moss and How to Use It
