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How-ToTrim a Hedge With Straight Edges
The straight edge that is the hallmark of the formal hedge depends most on what you do before you cut. Accurate measurements and well-placed stakes are key when you are…
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DesignFeeding and Mulching Roses
Choose a fertilizer that is labeled as being especially for roses. It will have the right balance of nitrogen for top growth, phosphorus, which stimulates the bloom, and potassium for…
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How-ToDealing with Thrips Damage
A supplement to the 2013 edition of Common Sense Pest Control from Taunton Press.
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How-ToControl Spider Mites With Beneficial Mites
You’re ready to try a more sustainable method of pest control and have purchased some beneficial mite eggs to release onto a plant infested with spider mites. How do you…
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How-ToThe Helpful Green Lacewing
Green lacewings are slender, bright, green-bodied flies that have massive appetites and use their big, sickle-shaped mouthparts to consume soft-bodied insects like aphids, thrips, white flies, and spider mites, as…
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How-ToHow to Prune Out Diseased Wood
In pruning texts and articles you'll often see references to the 3 D's. This stands for dead, damaged, and diseased wood. All three types are harmful to your plant and should…
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How-ToHow to Remove Dead Wood
A lot of the pruning you do for woody plants is done in late winter or early spring. But there are a few exceptions to this general rule. Dead…
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How-ToRidding Your Garden of Slugs and Snails
Snails and their no-shelled cousins, slugs, are a common problem in many gardens. Sometimes they're imported with new plants; once introduced to the terrain, they are hard to eliminate. Getting…
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How-ToUnderstand Deer Browsing Behavior to Better Protect the Garden
Managing 500 acres of grounds at a historical landmark resort can be very challenging, especially with a burgeoning herd of deer, and John Van Etten, horticulturist at Lake Mohonk Mountain…
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How-ToReleasing Beneficial Insects in Your Garden
Chances are many beneficial insects already live in your garden, but not at the population densities necessary to effectively control certain pests. So it may be necessary to seek reinforcements…
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