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Pests And Problems
Guides and how-tos from the Garden Planner Pro blog on pests and problems.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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