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How to Select Healthy Fruit Trees and Berry Bushes

Guest Author Stella Otto's 1st part of the Fruit Growing 101 series: How to know if a fruit tree or berry bush is healthy before you bring it home from the garden center Continue reading →

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How to Prune Raspberries and Blackberries

By knowing how raspberries and blackberries grow, you'll be able to prune them easily, keeping your berry patch productive for many years. Continue reading →

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Magic Weed Killer? No Such Luck

What's the best way to control weeds? Hint: it doesn't come in a bottle Continue reading →

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Flowers, Shrubs, Herbs, Trees that Rabbits and Deer Won’t Eat

Contains a searchable table of plants that deer and rabbits usually will not eat. Plant these to be safe. Continue reading →

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How To Rotate Crops In A Vegetable Garden

Careful crop rotation is key to successful home gardening. Article includes sample plan for crop rotation and definition of plant families Continue reading →

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Step ‘N Tilt Core Lawn Aerator Review

I was recently asked to test a new manual lawn aerator called the Step ‘N Tilt Core Lawn Aerator 2. I gladly accepted because well, my lawn was in need of aerating. My big problem with manual lawn...

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Pesticides Implicated In Deaths of Bees and Birds

Recent studies have concluded that the world's most widely used class of insecticides are responsible for the massive die-off of honeybees and deaths of birds. Continue reading →

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How To Grow Tomatoes And Other Vegetables In Containers

If you don't have space, time, or energy to build a garden, you can still enjoy fresh tomatoes by growing them in containers in a sunny area outdoors.

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April Gardening Tips: Prune Grasses, Spread Corn Gluten Meal, Start Dahlias

Charlie Nardozzi and Dr Leonard Perry share garden tips and lawncare tips for April

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The Landscape Fabric Weed Barrier Myth

It's a myth that landscape fabric will suppress the weeds in your garden for years. Experienced gardeners know that defies logic.

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How Home Gardeners Can Save The Monarch Butterfly

Monarch butterfly populations are in serious trouble. You can help save them by planting milkweed in your garden

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It’s Not Your Imagination, Your Flowers Are Blooming Earlier

A recent study showed that due to climate change, plants are producing flowers earlier than at any point in history. What that means for your garden

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March Gardening Tips: Start Seeds, Build a Cold Frame, Check Fruit Trees

Charlie Nardozzi and University of Vermont Horticulture professor Leonard Perry discuss pre-season gardening activities

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Japanese Knotweed Removal 101

So you've got Japanese knotweed threatening to strangle the life out of the other plants in your garden. It needs to be removed, but where to begin?

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How to grow bush beans and pole beans in your garden

There may be no easier or more beneficial garden crop than beans. They're low maintenance, adapted to nearly any climate, and are a fantastic source of protein

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Do You Know Your First and Last Frost Dates?

Knowing where your first frost date and last frost date fall is essential to gardening success. Includes tables with first and last local frost and freeze dates

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What Insects Are Eating My Salad Greens?

A reader asks how he can get rid of aphids that are eating his mustard greens

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How To Prune Any Plant In Your Garden

Every new gardener has lots of questions about pruning, as pruning done correctly makes your plants robust, but done incorrectly is a disaster. Learn how.

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Has Organic Gardening Lost The Image War?

Big Food and Big Ag have spent billions on disinformation to make the organic label radical, too expensive, and not based on reliable science. Time to flip it.

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Japanese Beetle Problem? Try Geraniums and Milky Spore

One of the most reviled garden pests is the Japanese Beetle, which is very difficult to get rid of. Fortunately, a small number of organic treatments work well.

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Hugelkultur Raised Garden Bed Composts Tree Wood

Building a raised Hugelkultur garden bed is an excellent way to re-purpose tree wood

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Take the Better Gardener Pledge

Take the Better Gardener Pledge and vow to create a safe environment for your food, family, pets, wildlife, and the biological community in your soil.

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Are Poinsettias Harmful To Dogs and Cats?

The Poinsettia is a beautiful plant which has come to be identified with the holidays. But is it poisonous to your cat or dog?

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Gifts For The Gardener On Your List

Not sure what holiday gift to buy your favorite gardener? Here are the best gardening books and products I've reviewed over the past few years.

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The most popular fresh cut Christmas trees and their unique features

With a little knowledge about the different species of Christmas trees, you can narrow your choices on the tree farm and cut the perfect tree for your home

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How to Buy a Christmas Tree

Tips for buying fresh cut trees and a list of the most popular Christmas trees sold in the U.S. For me, the most exciting day of the holiday season isn’t Christmas or Christmas Eve, but the day I...

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How trees protect your home by slowing wind speed, soil erosion, and water runoff

After Hurricane Sandy felled thousands of trees in October and took down power lines throughout the mid Atlantic, I started thinking about how the sudden loss of those beautiful old growth trees...

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Pictures of Hurricane Sandy Damage, Bethlehem, PA

Hurricane sandy was the most ferocious storm to ever hit the Northeast. Pictures of the damage to my town, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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November gardening tips: Mulch flower beds, protect trees, clean gardening tools

Mulching, protecting young trees, and wrapping evergreens are some of the gardening tips for November.

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How to Select Healthy Fruit Trees and Berry Bushes

How to Prune Raspberries and Blackberries

Magic Weed Killer? No Such Luck

Flowers, Shrubs, Herbs, Trees that Rabbits and Deer Won’t Eat

How To Rotate Crops In A Vegetable Garden

Step ‘N Tilt Core Lawn Aerator Review

Pesticides Implicated In Deaths of Bees and Birds

How To Grow Tomatoes And Other Vegetables In Containers

April Gardening Tips: Prune Grasses, Spread Corn Gluten Meal, Start Dahlias

The Landscape Fabric Weed Barrier Myth

How Home Gardeners Can Save The Monarch Butterfly

It’s Not Your Imagination, Your Flowers Are Blooming Earlier

March Gardening Tips: Start Seeds, Build a Cold Frame, Check Fruit Trees

Japanese Knotweed Removal 101

How to grow bush beans and pole beans in your garden

Do You Know Your First and Last Frost Dates?

What Insects Are Eating My Salad Greens?

How To Prune Any Plant In Your Garden

Has Organic Gardening Lost The Image War?

Japanese Beetle Problem? Try Geraniums and Milky Spore

Hugelkultur Raised Garden Bed Composts Tree Wood

Take the Better Gardener Pledge

Are Poinsettias Harmful To Dogs and Cats?

Gifts For The Gardener On Your List

The most popular fresh cut Christmas trees and their unique features

How to Buy a Christmas Tree

How trees protect your home by slowing wind speed, soil erosion, and water runoff

Pictures of Hurricane Sandy Damage, Bethlehem, PA

November gardening tips: Mulch flower beds, protect trees, clean gardening tools

Cape Hyacinth, Autumn Snowflake, Romuleas – Three Little Bulbs With Big Impact

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