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Succession Planting: How to Keep Your Vegetable Garden Producing All Summer
An empty bed in July isn't a finished garden. How to match fast crops to the days you have left before frost and keep harvesting into fall.
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Tomatoes Are Fruit, Zucchini Is Too: The Produce Aisle Has Been Lying to You
Botanically, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and squash are all fruits. The rule is one sentence long, and it predicts which crops need bees to produce.
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Your Zucchini Plant Is Covered in Flowers and Still Growing Nothing - Here's the Real Reason
Zucchini grows separate male and female flowers, and only the female ones make squash. How to tell them apart and finish the job the bees didn't.
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How to Get Rid of Squash Bugs Naturally
Squash bugs win by being invisible until the damage is done. The whole fight is at the egg stage, and it's a five-minute job once a week.
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How Often to Water a Vegetable Garden
Overwatering and underwatering look identical from above, which is how most gardeners kill plants. The fix is a finger, two inches down.
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How to Get Rid of Aphids Naturally
Aphid control is simpler than most guides make it. Start with the hose, escalate only if you need to, and know when a few aphids aren't worth treating.
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