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9 Seeds Worth Starting in January (and 4 That Will Wreck Your Spring)
Nine crops slow enough to justify a January sowing, four that will be leggy wrecks by May, and the frost-date sum that tells you which January you mean.
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Your Fall Seedlings Vanished Overnight. Look for the Slime, Not the Bug.
Ragged holes in fall greens and no insect anywhere on the plant. How to tell slug damage from caterpillars, earwigs and birds, and what stops it this week.
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Crop Rotation Only Works If You Remember Last Year, and Almost Nobody Does
Rotation isn't hard to understand and it's nearly impossible to execute, because you plan in February and the evidence disappeared in November. Fix it in September instead.
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Your Seedlings Don't Need a $200 Grow Light. They Need It Six Inches Closer.
Full-spectrum, blurple, wattage claims: most of what grow light listings sell you is irrelevant to seedlings. The spec that matters, and why distance beats every other decision.
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Those Gray Clumps on Your Kale Aren't Mold, and Washing Won't Fix Them
Cabbage aphids look like powdery mildew and behave like nothing else. How to tell them from the two things people mistake them for, and why soap sprays keep failing.
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6 Crops You Can Still Start in a Pot This Month, Ranked by How Fast They Feed You
September sowing on a balcony works, but the deadline isn't frost. It's daylight. Six container crops ranked by days to maturity, and how much to add for a fall sowing.
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