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Storage Clamp
In the absence of a root cellar, a clamp gives gardeners an inexpensive means to store fall-harvested root vegetables through the winter.read more
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Seeds, Seed Catalogs, and Seed Starting
Spring is in the Mailbox!Seed catalogs are a gardener's salvation in mid-winter. To help you get the most out of catalog season, we've compiled a list of our favorite organic seed companies, a how-to...
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Is Maple Syrup Endangered?
On the second and third weekends of March, more than 50,000 visitors will celebrate the 55th annual Highland Maple Festival in Monterey, Virginia.read more
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Super-Sturdy Tomato Cage
At the Organic Gardening Test Garden, tomato plants grow in heavy-duty wire cages we’ve used for years.read more
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Magnolia Magic
As a child growing up in Manhattan, Illinois, I gazed out my bedroom window and directly into the canopy of a majestic saucer magnolia.read more
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Stopping Stink Bugs
As temperatures begin to rise in spring, the brown marmorated stink bugs (BMSBs) that invaded homes in the fall begin emerging from their winter hiding places, looking for food and mates.read more
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Nitrogen: The Elusive Nutrient
Nitrogen is the most ephemeral of the key plant nutrients.read more
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Room to Grow
Whenever Sheridan Prior took her young children to a playground, they pretty much ignored the play sets there.read more
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Design Elements for a “Growing Up” Garden
Think about incorporating some or all of these ideas for an exciting, inspirational, and long-lasting space for growing children.read more
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Preventing Late Blight
Late blight, an increasingly common killer of tomato and potato crops, elicits dread in gardeners throughout the United States.read more
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7 Best Air-Cleaning Plants
Winter isn't easy on most of us. Piles of ice and snow greet us weekly, and short days make brief periods of sunshine even harder to come by.read more
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Marrying Elegant Design and Sustainability
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a homestead as “the home and adjoining land occupied by a family; the ancestral home.” You don’t have to be a back-to-the-land farmer, shear your own sheep, or...
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