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Vegetables
Crop-by-crop guides to what grows well, where, and when.
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Your Fall Kale Turned Purple. Put the Bone Meal Down.
Kale, cabbage and lettuce going purple in autumn is usually the cold, not a phosphorus shortage, and feeding won't fix it. When purple does mean a problem.
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The Crops That Save You Money Are the Ones Sold in Little Plastic Boxes
If you garden to cut the grocery bill, potatoes and onions are the wrong place to start. Plan next year around the herbs, salad and fruit you buy by the ounce.
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8 Things to Plant in October While the Soil Is Still Warm
October soil is warmer than October air, and eight crops are happy to root in it now and finish in spring. What to get in the ground before it cools.
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How Many Plants Actually Fit in a 4x8 Bed? Almost Everyone Guesses High
A crop-by-crop count for a 32 square foot raised bed, from 500 radishes down to one pumpkin, and the four crops where crowding costs you the whole harvest.
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9 Seeds Worth Starting in January (and 4 That Will Wreck Your Spring)
Nine crops slow enough to justify a January sowing, four that will be leggy wrecks by May, and the frost-date sum that tells you which January you mean.
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6 Crops You Can Still Start in a Pot This Month, Ranked by How Fast They Feed You
September sowing on a balcony works, but the deadline isn't frost. It's daylight. Six container crops ranked by days to maturity, and how much to add for a fall sowing.
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Sow Spinach Now, Ignore It All Winter, Cut It in April
Spinach sown in late summer sits out the winter alive and starts growing again before you can dig. The timing, the mulch, and the varieties that survive it.
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Container Vegetable Gardening: What Actually Grows Well in Pots
Nearly every container failure comes down to pot size. What grows well in pots, how big each one needs, and the mistakes that kill patio crops.
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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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