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Sow Spinach Now, Ignore It All Winter, Cut It in April
Spinach sown in late summer sits out the winter alive and starts growing again before you can dig. The timing, the mulch, and the varieties that survive it.
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That Pepper Plant Is a Perennial, and Composting It in October Is a Waste
Peppers are tender perennials, not annuals. How to cut yours back, bring it inside before frost, and get ripe fruit weeks earlier next summer.
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Take Cuttings From These Herbs Now or Buy Them All Again in May
The basil and rosemary you already own can make next year's plants for free, but only if you take the cuttings while it is still hot. How to do it, and which herbs to skip.
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Your Tomato Plant Is Still Setting Flowers, and Every One Is a Lie
A tomato flower opening in late August will not become a tomato. Here is the math, and what pinching the tops off does for the green fruit already on the vine.
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Your Tomato Leaves Have Greasy Gray Patches. Pull the Plant Today.
Late blight is not the spotting you have been ignoring all summer. It kills a tomato plant in under a week and blows to your neighbors. How to tell, and what to do.
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Save These Seeds This Week - And Whatever You Do, Skip the Squash
Beans, lettuce and peppers are making free seed in your garden right now. Squash and cucumbers are setting a trap. How to tell which is which before you save.
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