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Garden Plot: How to save lightning prone trees and harvest garlic

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Garden Plot: How to save lightning prone trees and harvest garlic

Garden Plot: Outdoor ants are good for the soil

Garden Plot: Outdoor ants are good for the soil

Garden Plot: Making pollinator gardens and hydrangeas bloom

Garden Plot: Making pollinator gardens and hydrangeas bloom

Garden Plot: When to move spring bulbs and what to get dad for Father’s Day

Garden Plot: Don’t wait until ‘mosquito week’ to stop your skeeters

Garden Plot: Don’t wait until ‘mosquito week’ to stop your skeeters

Garden Plot: Should you use sawdust or fine wood chips as mulch?

Garden Plot: Should you use sawdust or fine wood chips as mulch?

More Garden Plot

Garden Plot: Heat wave? That’s a tidal wave a’comin’

Garden Plot: Heat wave? That’s a tidal wave a’comin’

Garden Plot: Taking care of your plants on hot days

Garden Plot: Taking care of your plants on hot days

Best flowers for Mother’s Day and other garden gift ideas

Best flowers for Mother’s Day and other garden gift ideas

Garden Plot: Tums can help tomatoes, even when they don’t have heartburn

Garden Plot: Tums can help tomatoes, even when they don’t have heartburn

Springtime tips: When to mow your lawn, bring pepper and tomato plants inside

Springtime tips: When to mow your lawn, bring pepper and tomato plants inside

Garden Plot: Plants for this Easter — and next

Garden Plot: Plants for this Easter — and next

April showers, May flowers: What to know about your azaleas and lawn

April showers, May flowers: What to know about your azaleas and lawn

Best ‘tomato time’ and how to prevent morning glory, bamboo invasions

Best ‘tomato time’ and how to prevent morning glory, bamboo invasions

Get to the root of the problem: How to eradicate English ivy

Get to the root of the problem: How to eradicate English ivy

Pansies: Pretty in the garden and good for your skin

Pansies: Pretty in the garden and good for your skin

A pot to pea in: When and how to start planting peas

A pot to pea in: When and how to start planting peas

It’s (almost) time to start your seeds

It’s (almost) time to start your seeds

Springlike showers, temps bring mosquitoes, deer, sprouting florae

Garden Plot: Struggling shrubs and dangerous decks

Garden Plot: Struggling shrubs and dangerous decks

Garden Plot: Of potted posies and maligned moss

Garden Plot: Of potted posies and maligned moss

Picking Valentine’s Day flowers? Consider tulips over roses

Picking Valentine’s Day flowers? Consider tulips over roses

Winter gardening tips: Rethink that rock salt and remember the birds

Winter gardening tips: Rethink that rock salt and remember the birds

What to do if you’re worried about bacterial spots, specks on tomatoes

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