Pests and Disease - Fine Gardening
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How-To
Tips to Help You Squeeze More Out of Your Garden
Winning tip: Keep your hose from harming your delicate plants I find this works perfectly to prevent any injury or damage to my delicate plants when hauling hoses around the…
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Design
Why to Stop Tilling and Grow Your Garden Like a Prairie
In graduate school my research involved comparing the health of soils in remnant native tallgrass prairies to adjacent farmlands. One of the lessons I learned is that we’d all be…
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Design
The Story of Doe #45
Hi GPODers! Today we've got a short story that is a tale as old as time, or as old as gardeners have been planting flowers to be enjoyed rather than…
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How-To
What’s Wrong with My Hydrangea? Learn to Recognize and Treat Common Diseases
Hydrangeas (Hydrangea spp. and cvs., Zones 3–9) are timeless favorites of gardeners everywhere, but these beloved shrubs are also favored by a wide variety of pathogens. Fortunately, there are many…
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Design
More Rabbits and Flowers From Maxine’s Garden
Hey GPODers! Today we're back in Rotterdam, New York exploring Maxine Brisport's wildlife-friendly garden. In case you missed the first part (which you should definitely check out here), Maxine contends…
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Design
Rabbits and Their Leftovers in Maxine’s Garden
Happy Monday GPODers! We're starting off the week in Rotterdam, New York, visiting the garden of Maxine Brisport. Maxine has shared her beautiful garden with us several times in the…
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Article
How to Manage Flea Beetles: The Cutest Pests You’ve Never Heard Of
Late spring sees me watching and waiting, breath not quite bated—and certainly not baited—to find out my fate for the season with one garden critter in particular: the flea beetle.…
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How-To
Social Media Gardening Tips and Tricks to Avoid
If your feed is anything like mine, you get a constant stream of newsy horticultural information every time you look at your phone. Many of these articles, memes, and posts…
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Design
Episode 155: Deer-Resistant Favorites
One of the worst sights you can ever see in the garden is a plant that has been browsed by deer. (Note: We don't love the gentle word “browsed” in…
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How-To
Garden Pest and Disease Watch: Eastern Filbert Blight and Elm Zigzag Sawfly
Question: My 30-year-old Harry Lauder’s walking stick (Corylus avellana* ‘Contorta’, Zones 4–8) is starting to die back. Some leaves are chlorotic and then turn brown, with the branch becoming dry…