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8 Garlic Varieties Worth Ordering This Week (And the One That Isn't Garlic)
Seed garlic sells out through September for October planting. What hardneck and softneck actually change about flavor, storage and your winter, plus eight varieties worth the order.
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No Root Cellar? Your Potatoes and Onions Want Opposite Rooms
Potatoes want cold and damp, onions want cool and dry, squash wants neither. How to find three storage climates in an ordinary house, and what rots when you don't.
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The Tomato Plants You Pull This Week Decide How Next July Goes
Some of what you clear out of the garden this month carries next summer's disease back into the bed. Most of it does not. How to tell which is which.
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Next June's Strawberry Harvest Is Decided in September, Not Spring
Strawberries set next year's flower buds in early fall. What you do to the bed this month matters more than anything you do in April.
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Green Tomatoes on the Vine? The Frost Timeline You're Ignoring
Tomatoes stop ripening once nights drop below 50°F, weeks before your actual frost date. What to pick now, how to ripen it indoors, and what to do with the rest.
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Freshly Dug Sweet Potatoes Taste Like Cardboard. The Week After Is What Fixes That.
Sweet potatoes are not sweet the day you dig them. What happens in the warm week afterward is what makes them worth growing, and most gardeners skip it.
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