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Your Squash Leaves Turned White Overnight - Don't Pull the Plant Yet
Powdery mildew hits squash every August. The leaves it takes are gone, but the plant usually has weeks of fruit left. What to cut, what to spray, when to quit.
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Stop Leaving Your Garden Beds Bare Over Winter - Sow This Instead
The bed your beans just finished in doesn't have to sit empty until spring. Which cover crop to sow in August and September, and how to pick between them.
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The One Tomato Trick That Means You Never Buy That Seed Packet Again
How to save tomato seeds from this year's best fruit, right now, so next spring's seed order is one line shorter. A jar, some water, and four days.
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Those Brown Spots Climbing Your Tomato Plant Aren't From Watering
Yellow, spotted lower tomato leaves in late summer usually get blamed on watering. It's almost always early blight, and it climbs fast once it starts.
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This Common Watering Mistake Is Splitting Your Tomatoes
A dry spell followed by a heavy rain is the classic setup for cracked tomatoes. The fix isn't about the storm, it's about the week before it.
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How to Plan a Fall Vegetable Garden by Counting Backward From Frost
Late July is when fall planting gets decided. The days-to-maturity math that tells you what still has time to make it before your first frost.
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