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Start Your Seeds in This Order or Your Peppers Will Be Late
Onions and celery go first, squash last, and peppers earlier than most people think. Nine crops ranked by how many weeks before last frost to start them.
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8 Things to Do With Fall Leaves Before You Bag a Single One
Fall leaves are the cheapest soil improver you'll ever get. Eight ways to use them this autumn, from mulching bare beds to building a new bed on the lawn.
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Every Way to Fill a Raised Bed, Ranked by How Soon You Can Plant in It
Bagged mix, bulk soil, your own dirt, buried logs or lasagna layers: five ways to fill a raised bed, how soon each is plantable, and why October changes the maths.
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The Crops That Save You Money Are the Ones Sold in Little Plastic Boxes
If you garden to cut the grocery bill, potatoes and onions are the wrong place to start. Plan next year around the herbs, salad and fruit you buy by the ounce.
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Brown Tunnels in Your Fall Radishes? A Maggot Did That, and It's Probably Already Gone
Rusty grooves and slimy tunnels in fall radishes and turnips are cabbage root maggots. How to tell them from wireworms and slugs, and what to do before winter.
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The Pests That Wrecked Your Summer Are Asleep in Your Garden Right Now
Squash bugs, borers and slugs do not leave in autumn. They overwinter a few feet from where they fed, and one October afternoon does more than a summer of spraying.
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