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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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Buy This in August or Your Fall Garden Ends on One October Night
Row cover is what stands between a fall garden that quits in October and one you harvest into December. Which weight to get, and why August is when to get it.
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Those White Butterflies Over Your Fall Kale Aren't Just Passing Through
August-planted brassicas get shredded worse than spring ones, and the cabbage worms doing it are nearly invisible. How to spot them and what actually stops them.
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Your Onions Rot in Storage Because of What You Did the Week You Pulled Them
Onions that go soft at the neck in November were lost back in August. How to cure onions and garlic properly, what to sort out, and where to keep them.
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