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- Milkweeds and Their Foes!
- How to Handle Leaf 'Litter'
- Loofa Gourds; Grow Your Own Shower Sponge
- Black Walnuts: Threat or Menace?
- Dig That Crazy Mixed-Up Lawn!
- The Great Garlic Debate
- Fleabane: The Misunderstood Native Pollinator Plant
- These Plants Are for the Birds!
- How to Outwit Terrible Ticks!
- Top Tips for Spring Bloom Success NEXT Year!
- Of Poop, Prions and Pesky Parasites
- Proper Postures for Personal Protection in Your Potager
- How to Get Lettuce to Persist into Summer
- Dancing in the Dark with Rhubarb Or: The noisy secret to super sweetness
- Exercises to Get You Ready to Garden Without Pain
- Peonies and hydrangeas: When is a tree not a tree? (or "I've Seen Peonies from Both Sides Now...")
- Hügelkultur & Raised Bed Building
- A New Look at Elderberries
- Fighting Produce-flation; Tomatoes and Peppers
- More Seedy Suggestions for Fighting 'Produceflation'
- Peas Please! They're the Perfect Cool Weather Crop
- Special Report: Predicted Fresh Produce Inflation Means It's More Important Than Ever to Grow Your Own Food
- Gardening for the Differently Abled
(And all of us who are Simply Getting Less Young) - What's Behind These Cucumber Complications?
- Is Creosote the Cause When Grass Won't Grow?
- Three Ways to Get Even with Thistle
- Carolina Reapers: They Are HOT< HOT< HOT!
But They Themselves Don't Like That Level of Heat - Why are my Arborvitae Turning Brown?
- Can Floating Goats Control Water Weeds?
- A Convincingly Crappy Crepe Calamity
- How to Ripen Up that Last Tomato of Fall
- Please Don't Plant 'Ornamental' Pear Trees!
- A Baker's Dozen of Things you MUST (or should) do this Fall
- PULVERIZE Your Garlic!
- Support Your Local Garlic!
- Forgotten Bulbs and The Real Deal on Bare Rooted Plants
- Tomatoes: It's All About the Rotation!
- Baseball is Gardening is Baseball
- Top Tips For LOTS of Spring Peas
- Seed Starting VI: Pricking Out, Thinning and Hardening Off
- Seed Starting V; What's in The Bag? Compost? What Kind? Plus: Dahlias & Pine Straw & Mulch; oh My!
- Seed Starting Wars! Episode III The Return of the Light!
- The Right Way to Start Seeds (Because there are a LOT of wrong ways!)
- Getting Started for Seed Starting
- A Battleship full of Butterfly Plants!
- Are Milkweed Bugs a Menace for Monarchs?
- The Good and Bad of Food for the Birds
- Last Minute Gifts for Gardeners
- Greenhouse Design 101
- Great Ideas for Worm Castings, Worm Tea and Tumblers
- When Plants Kill Plants
- Pokeweed: Threat or Menace? (And did the Gators REALLY eat her Granny?)
- Composting Down Under
- Hair of the Dog Can Deter Evil Squirrels...But What About Slimy Slugs?
- What Went Wrong with my Tomatoes?!
- What's the Deal with Epsom Salts?
- Squash Vine Borer Prevention
- The Seed of the Potato Bears Bitter Fruit!
- Hornet Nests: OK in trees; NOT in the Ground
- In Praise of Snags
- Update on Groundhog and Raccoon Woes; the People Speak!
- Is Your Maple Tree Wilting?
- Praying Mantis: Garden Friend? Or Fiend?
- 'Squash Beetles'? Or Squash Bugs?
- In Praise of Potatoes
- Careful with that Garlic, Eugene!
- Pine Needles, Pine Straw and Pine Fines
- NOW is the Time to Care for your Spring Bulbs Correctly
- Bagworms: The Creepiest (or Sneakiest) Caterpillars?
- Moles? Voles? Shrews? Woodchucks? What's Eating My Garden?!
- Hey Rube! Where's the Rhubarb??
- Attack of the 17-Year Cicadas!
- Best Flowers for Cutting
- My Definitions of Dirt
- The Dirty Little Secret of Raised Bed Success
- Seed Starting Part III; Keeping Your Transplants Alive
- Seed Starting II: Light!
- Seed Starting: The Basics
- Peas & Beans; to Start indoors? Or Not to Start? That IS This Week's Question!
- Caring for a Potted Christmas Tree in Spain
- Caring for Crepe in Colder Climes
- What to do About Dirty Rats
- An old Avocado Tree in Tennessee and a Troubled Youngster in NJ
- When is a Prune Not a Prune? When it's a Plum!
- Handling Worm Poop Over the Winter
- Spring and Summer Bulb Stories & Beer Fridge Advice
- Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
- Of Mice and Mint (and Mothballs)
- Make Your Peppers Perennial!
- The Perils of Pruning
- How to Tip-Toe Your Tulips To Spring Bulb Success
- It's Time for the THIRD Season of Gardening
- A Crash Course on Saving Some Seeds for Next Season
- How to Grow Great Garlic!
- Have a Happy Harvest; How and When to Pick your Produce
- A Triple: Tomato Rot! Compost! Wood Chips!
Plus, a special appearance by cuke-free cucumbers - Contaminated Clippings: Death From the Lawn!
- Deer, Evil Squirrels, Cartoon Dice, Killing a Lawn Softly and Explaining Endorphins
- Fighting Bugs, Butterflies and Slugs in Scotland
- Attempting to Ensure Late Season Success
- More Advice for Gardeners in Training
- Secrets of Success for First-Time Growers
- Mike's Top Tips for Tomato Success
- Forsythia and Beautiful Bulbs; How to Make sure that Spring Springs Again!
- The Real Cure for the Corona Virus Is Just Outside Your Door
- Spider-Man, Good! Spider Mites, Bad!
- For the Love of Leaves
- The Proper Care of Roses
- The Important Secrets of Springtime Mulch
- Pounding Sand Down Under
- Seed Starting 101
- What Should You Do When a Fox Shows Up?
- Coffee Grounds and Ashes: Uses and NON Uses
- Growing Potatoes Above Ground in a Lehigh Bin
- The Rules of Soil Solarization
- Where Should You 'Leave Your Leaves'?
- A Potpourri of Pithy Problems Promptly Resolved*
- Holiday Gifts for Ticks! (Tick Prevention, That Is...)
- Tulips, Great Gardeners & Definitive Designs; Books That Any Plant Lover Will Treasure
- Perfect Picture Books for Gardener Gifts
- Pruning for Holiday Greens
- Reach for the Hose if You're Seeing Spots
- How to Choose the Best Leaf Shredder for You
- Straw Bales: The Trend That Will Not Die!
- Questions About Compost
- When to Prune Raspberries and Roses
- Is Your Garlic in the Ground?
- It's a Caterpillar! It's a Slug! No--It's a Sawfly!
- The Plants That Deer Eat Last
- Blue-Winged Wasps and Deadly Yellowjackets
- Growing Herbs Indoors Over Winter
- Evicting Evil Squirrels!
- Yes--You Can Start Pepper Plants in August!
- Will Grinding Down Tree Roots Improve a Lawn?
- The Sad Story of Hosta Plants in Full Sun
- Is Fish Poop Good for Your Plants?
- If 'The Poppy is Also a Flower';* Is the Hosta Also a Weed?
- Preen Herbicide: What is Preen and is it Safe?
- How Much Compost Could Wood Chips Wreck; if Wood Chips Could Wreck Compost?
- Save Your Squash from the Dreaded Vine Borer!
- What Happens When You Handle Wet Plants?
- What Good is a Greenhouse in the Summer?
- Is Rosemary an Insect Repelling Plant?
- Planting Trees & Shrubs--Should You Never Improve the Soil in the Planting Hole?
- The Secret Origins of Lawns, Pesticides and the American Forest Canopy; Three More Books to Grow On
- Sowing Success When You Sow Seeds
- Can You Have Too Much Organic Matter in Your Soil?
- Blight vs Wilt; a Treatise on Tomato Troubles
- Of Oak Leaves and the Timing of Mulch
- Roses, Figs, & Pawpaws; Three Books to Grow On
- Controlling Snails and Slugs
- It's Seed Starting Time; Let the Light(s) Shine!
- Worm Bin Benefits are HUGE; Problems are Tiny; Plus: A Word or Two About Drain Flies
- Saving your Own Tomato Seed is Easy--Kind of...
- Banish Winter with Dreams of Sweet Corn Summers!
- Lots of Plants Besides Tomatoes Love Eggshells. Slugs Don't.
- Getting More Berries on Winterberry
- Grow Yourself Some Lupins!
- Don't Trash Those Holiday Plants!
- Be Warned--Bamboo Will Get You Busted!
- Insurance Company Says: Get the Ivy off That Tree!
- What's Digging Up My Lawn??!!
- "Pollarding"; or The Art of Making Trees Ugly
- Essential Cut Christmas Tree Tips; How Not to Walk on Needles This Year
- Did Ants Kill a Tree?
- Tree Stump = Compost—with no work!
- Should You Use Finished Compost Now? Or in the Spring?
- What the Heck Happened to My Tomatoes This Year?!
- Can I PLEASE Prune My Roses?! And How Can I Get Ripe Figs?
- What's Chafing Your Roses?
- What Can We Do About Out-of-Season Bloom?
- Flea Beetles and Hornworms Love Chemical Fertilizers!
- Bringing Peppers Inside for the Winter, & Begonias, Herbs and maybe Rosemary
- What's Eating my Garden? And are the 'Leftovers' Safe?
- Tomato Sauce 101—From Vine to Jar
- September Is THE Time For Lawn Care & Repair
- Hey Joe: What's in That Mosquito Spray?
- In the Garden and on the Lawn, Cheaters Always Win
- Getting the Most Out of Your Garlic Harvest
- Garden Flies: How to Get Rid of Flies in a Vegetable Garden
- Got Skeeters Bad? Call in the DragonFlies!
- Using Grass Clippings for Mulch
- Crossing The Pond With the Intent to Commit Horticulture
- Keep Your Credit Cards Out of the Compost!
- Beetles? Slugs? The Many Foes of Roses
- Gardening Without Sight
- Gardening at High Altitude; Short Season; No Water
- You Say Patatas; I Say Tamatas….
- What's Not to Love About the Linden Tree?
- 'None Like it Hot'; When Even Sun-Lovers Need Some Shade
- Spring Bulbs; The Rules for Rebloom are the Same around the World
- Soil Solarization: What it Can and Can't Do
- Tomato Season Update: Pruning Suckers and Poor Production
- 2018 Update: There's More Than One Way to Use a Tree Stump
- 2018 Update: You STILL Can't Run Away from Running Bamboo
- Best Practices for Ornamental Grasses
- Wood Ash Update 2018
- What to Do When Your Lawn is a Lake
- Growing Blueberries Low and High, South & North
- Raised Bed Review; Plus Perlite vs. Vermiculite
- Tick Protection—on Both Sides of the World
- Potash Fertilizer: How to Get the Right Kind of K in Your N-P-K
- If You're Seeing Spots, Call for Help
- Winter Got You Down? Curl Up in a French Hot Bed
- "Worms" in Your Berries? There's a New Pest in Town
- OK Maybe You CAN Eat Black Walnuts
- Deer: A Threat to Cars Trees and People
- Grass Wars Bermuda vs Fescue in Virginia
- Moving Do not Pack Your Landscape
- Tree Stump Troubles
- Valentine's Day—Say "I Love You" with Moths and Lumber!
- Did 'possums' make holes in the ground?
- Conquering the Contemptible Cock-a-Roach
- Perlite Soil - What is Perlite & Why is it Important?
- Pyracantha; Getting More Berries on Firethorn
- Turning the 'Christmas Rose' Into a Year-Round Plant
- Holiday Plant Care Tips: How to keep Paperwhites Tidy and Poinsettias and Amaryllis Alive
- Keeping RATS Far, Far Away
- Garlic: Can it Have Companions in a Container?
- Overseeding a Cool-Season Lawn to Fill in Bare Spots
- The Curious Case of Color Change in Crepe
- We Come Not to Bury Mulberry, But to Praise it!
- Corn Gluten Timing For FALL Weed Prevention
- Stores Having 'Back to School' Sales? That Means It's Almost Garlic Planting Time!
- Can Tasteless Tomatoes Be Made Tasty?
- Horsetail—the Weed that Shines your Pots and Pans!
- Let Worms Turn Your Trash into Treasure!
- How and When to Fertilize Your Lawn
- Winter Damage: Can This Plant Be Saved?
- Spring Bulb Troubles
- Canada geese!
- 47 Great Gifts for Gardeners!
- Great Gifts for Gardeners!
- Forget Chemicals – Make Compost!
- The Ultimate Squirrel Solution
- Spring Bulb Planting and Protection Tips
- Shred Those Fall leaves into Future Garden Glory!
- Force Spring Bulbs Indoors this winter!
- Voles: These Little Rodents Can do a Lot of Damage
- Compost Q & A; Chunks, Clips, Chicks, Yeast &…Urine?
- Did Wicked Winter Beat Bad Blights?
- Is Cypress a Good Plant to Remember a Loved One By?
- Grow Forsythia for Fabulous Flowers & Beneficial Bugs
- A Garden for Senses Other than Sight
- Help Save the Monarch Migration!
- Nasty Caterpillar 'Borers' are Worst Enemy of Iris
- Cutting Back Big Boxwoods (& Other Overgrown Evergreens)
- Growing Culinary Herbs; a Practical Primer
- How and When to Prune Fruit Trees
- Almonds & Hickories: A Tale of Two Nuts
- Blackcurrants: Uncommon fruits worthy of attention
- Brushing Up on Brussels Sprouts
- Should You Grow the Castor Bean Plant?
- Spring Bulbs Poking up—in Winter!
- How Many of the 'Dirty Dozen' can a Gardener Easily Grow?
- Greenhouse Gardening 101
- Growing Artichokes Outside of California
- Of Termites, Trenches, Toxins & Traps
- Fall Pruning Reminders and Special Rules for Holiday Greens
- How Dangerous is the Dreaded Black Widow Spider?
- Protecting Rosemary, Fruit Trees and Other Plants in Pots
- Does the Dogwood Bear Bitter Fruit? Or Tasty?
- Let's Monkey Around With Mondo Grass!
- Does Kitchen Waste Belong in a Compost Pile?
- How to Attract Hordes of Hummingbirds
- Can you Grow Your Own Peanuts?
- Tomatoes: IS There a Bad Blight on the Rise?
- Listener Tips on Preventing Flea Beetles and Vine Borers
- Lavender: A lovely Lady with MANY Names
- Bermudagrass is Taking Over The Transition Zone
- Is There a Tree that Blooms Blue for a Living Flag?
- Perennial Bluegrass: Good! Annual Bluegrass: Bad!!
- Caring For Native American Lady Slipper Orchids
- It's a Bad 'Worm'; It's a Benign Beetle; It's Both!
- Do Tulips Come Back Every Year?
- Weeds That Shoot Their Seeds
- Black Eye & Other 'Southern Peas'
- Growing & Planting Hardy Kiwi
- Noisy Boxwood? Little Flying Hotdogs are Probably to Blame
- Grow Your Own Saffron!
- Get Loose and Light to Grow Sweet Carrots
- Does Warm Winter = Early Crabgrass?
- Moving Plants, especially in Cold Weather
- Lilac Troubles: White Mold & Bark Eating 'Bees'
- Poison Ivy Problems? Pulling is the way to go
- Ants!
- Top Ten X-Mas Tree Tips
- Earwigs!
- Six Things to Do (or NOT do!) in September
- Keep Mice out of your Mulch—and your Mansion!
- Grow the 'Berry a Day' that Keeps Influenza Away!
- Get a Grip on Grasshoppers!
- Get Rid of Fleas—Without Terrible Toxins!
- Beating Japanese Beetles
- Fall Pruning 101: DON'T!
- Want Your Holiday Plants to Bloom on Schedule?
- Plant This Fall If You Want to Enjoy Garlic & Spring Bulbs NEXT Season
- Q & A: Plant This Fall If You Want to Enjoy Garlic & Spring Bulbs NEXT Season
- Winter's On the Way! Make Plans NOW
- Plant Pansies NOW for Bloom Through Next July!
- Moving: "Can we Take Our Garden With Us?"
- Mike McGrath's Super-Fast Time-Saving Tomato Saucing Tip!
- Special Tips on Winter Houseplant Care
- Those Stinky STINK BUGS!
- How to Get Rid of Ladybugs in Your House
- Can You Solarize Garden Woes Away?
- In Search of Truffles
- Rosemary Trees & Holiday Greens - Ways to Spruce" Up Your Holidays"
- Dogs and Lawns
- Dogs & Lawns
- Don't be Afraid of Springtime Bees!
- Great Big Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gruesome GRUBS!
- Fading Fireflies! Are we losing our Lightning Bugs?
- Is Your Mulch Magnificent? Or Miserable?
- Growing Food Where the Sun Don't Shine
- When to Harvest Tomatoes, Melons & other Top Crops
- The 7 Secrets of Highly Successful Sod
- Have a Healthy, Weed-Free Lawn—Naturally!
- Have a Healthy, Weed-Free Lawn - Naturally!
- Raise High Your Garden Beds, Growers!
- Apple Trees Looking a Little Rusty
- Wascally Wabbits!
- How to Get Rid of Ground Bees: Safe & Easy Ground Bees Nest Removal
- How to Get Rid of Thistles and Bamboo Weeds
- Last Minute Mosquito Control
- The Twelve GIFTS of Christmas!
- How To Get Rid of Chipmunks When They Go Wild In Your Garden
- What is Milky Spore Disease?
- Better Blooms on Lilacs, Dogwoods and Rhododendron
- How to Acquire "Compost Mulch"
- Hydrangea and Butterfly Bush Pruning Guide
- Composting is EASY!
- Skunks!
- Growing Ornamental Cotton
- Houseplants "Poisonous" to Pets
- Holiday Gift Suggestions from listeners (and one from me)
- Keep That Christmas Tree Safe!
- Oh Deer!
- Plantings and Septic Systems
- Louisiana Termites
- For LOTS of Spring Peas
- 'Wood' This Mulch Attract Termites?
- Bring me the broomstick of the Least Wicked Ground Cover of the North!
- Flea beetles! Caterpillars! Vine borers! Aphids! & Spiders!
- Black Walnuts? No Worries!
- Going on Vacation? Prepare Your Garden First!
- "Round Up" Your Weeds Without Nasty Chemicals!
- Lets Tackle Ticks!
- How to Get Rid of Slugs
- Turn a Triple Play Against Nasty Mosquitoes
- Yes, you CAN Protect Your Roses From Dread Diseases
- Polish Off Your Poison Ivy Without Personal Peril With These Seven Secrets of Successful PI Pullers!
- The Cicadas are Coming! The Cicadas are Coming!
- Protecting Tomatoes From Dread Diseases
- Time to Deal With Those Darn Dandelions!
- Advice for dealing with Moles and Voles
- No Plot to 'Pea' In? Grow in Containers!
- Can You Compost Correspondence?
- Keeping the Pets Out of the Garden!
- Spray Away Weeds
- Are Morning Glories Pretty Plants? Or Invasive Weeds?
- Japanese Knotweed is One Tough (But Edible) Weed
- The Trouble with Iris
- The Stale Seed Bed = a Weed-Free Garden
- The Three Sisters: Corn, Squash and Beans
- What can you do with SAWDUST?
- Composting Kitchen Waste Can Be Tricky!
- Ten Questions to Ask an Organic Lawn Care Provider
- Seed Starting: Let There be MODERN Light!
- For the Love—Or lack Thereof—Of IVY!
- Some Like it Hot; Most Plants Do NOT!
- The Right Mix for Starting Seeds
- Mealybugs—The Scale that Walks!
- Growing Lemons and Other Citrus Indoors
- Controlling Pantry & Clothes Moths
- Valentine's Day Rose Alternatives & more!
- Wintertime Choices for Spring Bulb Procrastinators
- 'When in Drought,' turn to Grey Water
- Soil Test Recommendations; Be Very Careful with Big Numbers!
- Fight Back Against Fruit Flies!
- Potato Growing 101
- It's Fall; Time to Plant Garlic, Pansies & Trees (oh my!)
- Growing Flowers for a Wedding in August
- Update on Tomato and Impatiens Blights; & Just What Makes a Plant Disease a "Blight"?
- Potatoes in a Cage!
- Soil pH; having the right number is important for your plants
- Call it Goutweed, Bishop's Weed or Snow on the Mountain, It's a Tough Weed to Wipe Out
- How to Make Compost Without Fall Leaves
- Tired of Bending? Garden on a Table Top!
- Wineberries—The Forbidden Fruit
- When Moss Goes Bad
- Can You Grow Grass Under a Tree?
- Three Timely Tomato Topics: Feeding Seedlings, Adding Calcium & What to do with Horse Manure
- Sod is Pricey, But You Get an Instant Lawn
- "Breeding Traps"; a New Way to Fight Mosquitoes!
- Home Invading Buggies
- Watering Wisely Defeats Weeds & Disease!
- Attracting Butterflies—and the Bt/Butterfly Connection
- Row Covers, Cold Frames, Hoop Houses and Other 'Cool' Ways to Extend the Season
- What's Eating My Garden??!!
- Landscaping With Fruit; Five Perfect Plants
- The Flowering Pear Bears Bitter Fruit!
- Gardening New Years Resolutions
- Perfect Plants for a School Garden During the School Year
- Of Milkweed and Monarchs
- Paw Paws: 'The Banana of the North'
- Rosemary, Amaryllis & Spring Bulbs; Three Sort-of Home-Grown Holiday Gifts
- Got Weeds? Get Goats!
- Grow Your Own Ginger!
- Good Trees/Bad Trees (or) The Problem with Poplars
- Bad Blight Wipes Out Impatiens
- Why and How to Plant a Clover Lawn
- How to Turn Fall Leaves Into a Great Summer Garden
- What Kind of Composter is Best for You?
- Special Report: Combining Spring Bulbs and Perennials
- Controlling Leaf Miners
- Guide to Buying Bagged Compost
- Plant-Safe Ice Melting
- Your Top Ten Tick Prevention Tips
- Battling Biting Black Flies—the Jurassic Pest!
- Not So Wild About 'Wild Strawberry'
- Zoysia Grass: A Planting, Growing & Care Guide
- Pears: Easy to Grow, but So Many Choices!
- Can You Grow Your Own Cranberries?
- So, You Want to Be a Farmer…
- Clover: How to Handle Those White Flowers
- Tree Planting 101
- Managing Scale—Inside and Out
- Controlling Cucumber Beetles
- Yellowjacket Nest? 'Clean it Up' Without Turning to Terrible Toxins
- It's Trick Or Treat Time for Plants! Here's what you should – and should not do—for them around Halloween
- Bee Nice to Bees with Pollinator-Friendly Plants!
- Should you 'Inoculate' your Peas & Beans?
- Beat the Beetles! (Bean Beetles, that is…)
- Controlling Pests Without Harming Good Bugs
- Fall Planting & Other Succession Strategies
- Planting—and Protecting—Spring Bulbs
- Cicada Killing Wasps are Harmless (unless you're a Cicada)
- Lesser celandine—for some, a Bitter Buttercup!
- What do Permaculture, Biodynamic & Biointensive mean?
- Let's Work Up some Window Boxes!
- Do Peanut Shells Make Good Mulch or Compost?
- Pruning Crepe (Crape) Myrtles
- Special Report: Top Ten Plants You Should NOT Eat
- Protecting Plants from the Colorado Potato Beetle
- Pruning Roses Correctly
- Winter Damaged Trees
- Seed Starting: Which Plants Should You Start Indoors?
- Can You Re-Use Potting Soil From Your Containers?
- Using Cardboard and Paper Wisely in the Compost and the Garden
- Dealing with Above-Ground Tree Roots
- Buying a Home That's Fit to Garden
- Killing Weeds with Vinegar
- How to Stop Weeds From Growing in Gravel Driveways
- Annoying Black Gnats
- How To Grow Rhubarb
- Don't Share your Indoor Space with Stink (or other) Bugs!
- Let's Get Some Garlic in the Ground!
- Circles and Patches in Lawns
- Now is the Time For All Good Gardeners To Come to the Aid of Their Bluegrass!
- Making New Plants From Soft and Hard Wood Cuttings
- The Best Garden & Landscape Mulches You Can Buy
- How to Sow a New Cool-Season Lawn
- Dodder: The Parasitic 'Silly String' Weed
- Eating Insect Damaged Crops
- Fertilizer Ratios - What is NPK?
- Toxic Neighbors
- When Lawns 'Move', Armyworms are on the March
- How to Handle Horseradish
- Not a Slug, Not a "Worm"—it's a Sawfly!
- Can Bags Full of Water Really Repel Flies?
- Do Rabbits Dig Deeply?
- Feeding your Soil with Seaweed
- Plant-Safe Ice Melting Update: Pound Sand, Not Plants!
- Last Cut Before Winter; How Low Should You Mow?
- Do GM Foods Make Unsafe Compost?
- The Many Faces of Crabapple
- Are Snails Just Slugs with Mobile Homes?
- When an Abundance of Wasps is NOT a Problem
- No Bumblebees Had to Die; Aphids are Easy to Control
- Garlic: How to Harvest a Year-Long Supply
- How to Handle a 'Diseased Dogwood'
- Will Ivy Covered Walls Come Tumbling Down?
- Suckers & Water Sprouts on Trees
- "Pruning Tomatoes": Who's the 'Sucker' Here?
- The MANY Faces of Honeysuckle
- 'Low Acid' Tomatoes
- Rotate Your Tomatoes to Avoid Wicked Wilts
- Thrips—The Almost Invisible Garden Foe
- Tainted or Not, Clippings Belong on the Lawn (And they Don't Cause Thatch!!)
- Fly Control Strategies—Inside and Out!
- Natural Sources of Nitrogen for Sweet Corn
- Wasps in the Windowsills; Yellowjackets Everywhere!
- Papaya—The FAST Growing Tropical Fruit!
- Storing Dahlias and Other 'Summer Bulbs' Over Winter
- Keeping Roots Out of Your Compost-to-Be (and a Crash Course on Layering)
- Tell Powdery Mildew to take a Powder!
- Asiatic Beetles: Mysterious Midnight Munchers UnMasked!
- "Bullet-Proof" Houseplants; Perfect for Low Light
- Trash-picking? Or Treasure-Taking? Making Compost with Other People's Curbside Leaves
- Young Trees Need Their Bark Protected From Hungry Rabbits, Horny Deer & Even the Sun!
- A Hardy Orange?
- Top Ten Things to Do This Fall—and One Big Don't!
- 'Privacy Planting' Warning: "Fast Growing" & "Trouble Free" Often = Unstoppable and Invasive
- There's More than One Way to Grow a Cockscomb!
- Fall is THE Time to Make Compost Magic
- Take a Stand Against Stiltgrass
- Why Your Tomatoes Are Splitting & How to Prevent It
- Let Worms Work Magic With Your Kitchen Waste!
- Roadside Herbicide Spraying: Only YOU Can Prevent Dead Frogs & Toads
- Passionate for Passionflower and Passion fruit
- Shred Your Leaves & Fall Into Composting
- Think You are a real gardener
- How to Safely Use Railroad Ties for Landscaping
- Its Time to Trap Your Mosquitoes
- Audubons List of Ten Native Plants that Benefit Birds
- How to Handle Snow Mold on Your Lawn
- Can You Park Your Plants on a Driveway?
- Peppers, Potatoes & Cherry Tomatoes -- Heavily-Sprayed Produce thats Easy to Grow at Home
- Protecting Hummingbirds From Predators
- Does the Color Blue Repel Pest Insects? Or Spooks?
- African Violet Care & Damage Control
- Growing Fruit in Containers on a Deck
- Growing Safe Sprouts Indoors Over Winter
- Can you use wood ash to kill clover? And are burned-up wood stove chunks the same as "Biochar"?
- The Most Essential Books for Beginning Gardeners
- Do Peanut Butter & Wedding Rice Hurt Wild Birds?
- Are Persimmons Puckery Or Pleasingly Pleasant?
- How to Keep Squirrels Out of The Garden: Protect Your Tomatoes & Other Fruits
- Is that a Cantaloupe in Your Pocket Or a Muskmelon?
- Whats Up When a Peace Rose Changes Color
- Can Invasive Asian Ladybugs Control Indoor Plant Pests
- What do you do with a Toad in a Pot of Petunias
- Can You - SHOULD You - Compost Diseased Tree Leaves
- Webworms in General and on Pecans in Particular
- Garden Clean Up and Fall Pruning Reminders
- How to Plant Garlic & Add Perlite to Raised beds?
- Can a New Bt End the Scourge of the Emerald Ash Borer?
- Composting Cub Scouts
- Protecting Blueberries and Other Potted Plants over Winter
- Last Call to Plant a Real Cool Season Lawn This Season
- Growing Grass Near Trees; the North and South of It
- Pruning Trees in the Summertime; A big Magnolia, a Hurting Hornbeam & Some Very Frisky Fruit Trees
- Soil Tests Sick Trees and Fertilizers: Why 10-10-10 is Not the Answer to Anything?
- Is It Black Gold? Or the Black Plague? Heres How to Test Compost for Weeds and Worries
- Can Trees that were Planted Balled and Burlaped With Their Roots all Wrapped up be Rescued
- When Tree Roots Grow into Sewer Lines
- How to have the first ripe red tomatoes on the block
- Which Fruit Fruits the Earliest?
- Way to Get Amaryllis to Re-bloom
- Broccoli & Hot Peppers OK; Broccoli & Hot Weather NOT!
- How to Care for Arborvitae— The Tall Screening Tree
- The New Treated Woods: Safe for Garden Use?
- Importance of Garden Worms
- Slow Release Fertilizer - What is It & Why is it Important?
- Protecting your Lawn from Lawn Care Providers
- Three Questions about Compost: Are Ants Good or Bad? Can You Compost Shrimp Shells? & Can We Eat our Pile?
- Pondering a Peck of Perplexing Pepper Problems
- Help Banish Late Blight!
- What the Heck is a "Dedicated Mulching Mower"?
- Support Your Local Tomatoes!
- Special Report: Winter Damage on Lawns
- Compost: The Problem with Starting in the Spring
- Growing a School Garden During the School Year
- Get Fit to Garden—and Break Ground, NOT Your Back!
- When Houseplants Get Pot Bound
- Another Way to Look at "Invasive" Plants
- Using Coffee Grounds 'Straight up' in the Garden
- Do Grape Vines Need to Be BURIED ALIVE?
- Kid Safe Indoor Gardening
- Relaxing the Rules for Holiday Holly Pruning
- How to Protect Hydrangea From Deer
- Philodendron Gone Wild! When Houseplants Outgrow the House
- The Two Chickweeds - Common and (Not-so) Mousey
- Its Time to Declare War on the Mulch Mounding of Trees!
- Compost Q & A: Are All Leaves Equal?
- Topping Trees
- Want to grow a Giant Sequoia
- Stalking 'The Wild American Strawberry'
- Beware Pinellia The Baby Jack in the Pulpit Weed
- How to Attract Mosquito Hawks to YOUR Landscape
- Overwintering Begonias: Begonia Winter Care
- Get the Lead Out of Your Garden
- How Much Sun Do Tomatoes Need? What You Need to Know
- 'Systemic' Pesticides Poison Every Pore of Your Plants
- A Gardeners Guide to Drying Hydrangea Flowers
- How far South Can You Grow Raspberries
- Dealing With Weeds in Walkways
- When Forsythia Becomes a Ground Cover
- How Not to Lose Fruits to Frost
- Ideas For Building or Buying A Cheap Greenhouse
- Use the Language of Flowers this Valentines Day
- Can You Plant in a Place where the Previous Tenant Perished
- How to Enjoy Sweet Corn all Summer Long
- Can You Grow Rooted Supermarket Herbs
- Can we Re Populate Our Lightning Bugs
- Should You Cover Your Compost
- Truly Live Christmas Trees Need Special Care
- What Causes Thatch in Lawns & How Do You Remove It?
- Yes virginia there is a good wood mulch
- Peat Moss Cow Manure Fall leaves What Should You Put in Your Beds
- The Best Foundation Plants For the Front of Your House
- Chasing Creeping Charlie
- Will a Spray of Clay Conquer the Beetles of Flea
- Growing a Garden In a Groundcover
- Selective Feeding is Better for the Birds and You
- Prepping Raised Beds for the Winter with Compost and Leaves
- Protecting Plants from Winter, Deer & Wabbits
- Cold Clime? Bury Your Figs Alive!
- When Drippy Trees Attract Danger
- Controlling Weeds That Have Gone to Seed
- The Problem with Paw Paws
- The Strange Case of the Catalpa Caterpillar
- Extend Your Hot Pepper Season and Make Monster Mash
- Snakes vs Rats in a California Garden
- The Wild Strawberry That Is not a Weed
- Special Summer Double-Header
- Full of Bees? Must be Swarming Time
- The Positives and Perils of Volunteer Potatoes
- Can Leaf Mulch Hurt Your Garlic Crop
- Is it Wise to Spread Rose of Sharon Seed in the Wild
- Can you Grow Violets Indoors
- 'Rock Mulch': Can You Use River Rock as Mulch?
- Old Railroad Tie Redux Just Dont Use Them
- The Not-So-Great Imposter; when Wood Sorrel looks like Clover
- Attracting Amiable and Advantageous Amphibians
- How to Find the Right Grass to Plant in Spring
- Is There Anything Productive You Can Do With Your Garden When You Need to Take a Year Off?
- The Perils of Early Planting & Cures for Hot Summers
- Special Report: Moderating Menacing Mosquitoes
- New Way to Control Asiatic & Japanese Beetles
- If a tree falls in the backyard, can you plant something on it?
- Fruit Flies in the Worm Bin
- Basic Seed Starting & Baby Plant Feeding
- Sap Beetles on Split and Cracked Tomatoes
- Can You Grow the Mistletoe?
- Dwarf Burning Bush is NOT one of Snow Whites Seven
- When a Hornets Nest is Harmless
- Turning Christmas Rosemary into a Full-Time Plant
- How to Grow Sweet Potato Vines
- Peach Tree Borers and other Un-peachy Realities
- First Time Gardener Remember to Breathe
- Is it GOOD Compost Or Bad Compost
- Compost Qs & As: Mushroom Soil, Grass Clippings and Getting Started
- What to do when Peonies Block an Important View
- Propagating a Perfect Prune Plum
- Weeds You Can not Whack the World Away
- Growing Garlic, North & South
- Wood Ash and Lilac Soil pH: Do Lilacs Like Acidic Soil?
- Are Yellow Flying Insects Honeybees Or Yellow Jackets
- Horse nettle Beware the Wild Perennial Tomato
- Your Wilting Squash Plants May be Bored to Death
- Stages of Tomato Ripening and When to Pick Them
- Using Plants and More to Repel Mosquitoes
- Are There Still Cinders in Cinder Block
- Modern Mums Should not Need Much Pinching
- Heirloom Rhubarb vs. Oklahoma Summers
- Bright Light at Night = Caterpillar Delight
- Do Trees NEED Mulch? & Can a Tree Survive Severed Roots?
- Long Live Square Foot Gardening!
- Ficus disruptus - When Ants Take Over an Indoor Fig
- Clematis—Follow the Rules & Your Vines Will Flourish
- How can you keep compost cooking when it's COLD out?
- Fruit Tree Basics
- Squash Vine Borer Control
- Fungus Gnats: Tiny Flying Houseplant Pests
- Disease Resistant Roses
- Creeping Charlie - "The Lawn Weed With Many Names"
- Spring Lawn Care
- Garden Success With Raised Beds!
- Cluster Flies - Not Your Ordinary Buzzer!
- Force Like a Flower Show Champ!
- Using Coffee Grounds Correctly
- Are YOU Inviting Termites to Devour your Domicile?
- Turning a 'Black Thumb' GREEN
- 20 Memory Aids you can Grow in Your Garden
- Trap That Squirrel!
- Tomato Troubles
- Defeating Tomato Disease
- Ladybugs and other Beneficial Insects; Get Good Bugs to Eat Your Bad Bugs!
- Mosquito Control 101
- Worried about honeybee decline? Support your local native Bees
- Grow Beautiful & Beneficial Blueberries!
- Chickweed? Purslane? Clover? Eat Your Weedies!
- (Not So!) Wild About Wild Violets
- Using Manure "Wisely"
- Is Nutgrass/Nutsedge Driving YOU Nuts?
- The Ten Biggest Mistakes Gardeners Make
- SPIDERS!
- Bring in your Pepper Plants!
- The Truth About 'Companion Planting'
- Whiteflies!
- Weed Control 101
- Pill bugs, sow bugs & 'Roly-Polies'
- Can Plants Drain a Wet Spot?
- Using Mulch Wisely
- "Squirrels? Rabbits? What's eating my Plants?!"
- Top Ten Tips For Terrific Tomatoes
- How to Compost at Home
- Preventing Weeds with a "No-Dig", "No-Till" System
- Whacking Weeds With Flame, Soap and {quote} 'Vinegar'
- Protecting Potted Plants over Winter
- Correct Spring Lawn Care
- Bees and Wasps and Hornets
- Thirteen ways to Stop Slugs
- Good and Bad Bamboo
- How to Grow & Harvest Great Garlic & How to Make Garlic Powder
- Composting Grass Clippings
- Keeping Miserable Mosquitoes Away from Outdoor Areas
- Removing a Lawn to Plant a Garden
- Cover Crops & Green Manure—the Basics
- Plan Now for Summer Sweet Corn Success
- Got: Tough Weeds. Want: Nice Garden!
- Growing Tomatoes in Containers
- Tomatoes For Tight Places: Determinate or Indeterminate?
- Mosquitoes
- The Many Faces of Strawberries
- Azaleas and Rhododendrons
- Protect Your Houseplant From Pests
- Compost Questions
- Bagworms, Webworms and Other Caterpillar Pests
- Raspberries Rule!
- How to Handle Hornworms
- Mosquito and Other Insect Repellants
- Plant Eating Beetles and Grimy Grubs
- Terrific Tomatoes: Top Ten Tips!
- Wood and Ground Bees
- Ten Commandments of Mulch
- Join a Community garden or CSA!
- Corn Gluten Meal
- Bug Eating Bats?
- Using Wood Ash Wisely
- Groundhogs!
- Do Ladybugs Bite?
- Ticks!
- Woodpecker Problems
- Got Ants in Your Plants?
- It's Time to Think Spring—Spring Bulbs, that is!
- Birds: How to Attract 'em & How to Deter 'em
- Late Blight Crisis; Keep an Eye on Your Tomato and Potato Plants!
- The Potential Medical Benefits of Aggressively Invasive Weeds like Creeping Charlie
- Potential Medical Benefits of Aggressively Invasive Weeds like Creeping Charlie
- How to Start a Garden - 9 Steps for First Time Gardeners
- Phragmites—Monster Weed of the Wetlands!
- Saving Seeds Successfully
- Centipedes and Millipedes
- Defeating Leaf Spot and other Dread Diseases
- Hops: Screening, Fragrance, and a Valued Crop!
- Let's Squish Some SQUASH BUGS!
- "Why Won't my Wisteria Bloom?"
- Bitter Lettuce & Summer Spinach Substitutes
- Clean Up Now to Prevent Problems Next Year
- Rock Your Garden With Rock Dust!
- Tough Turf? Aeration May be the Answer
- Using Row Covers Against Insect Pests
- Seeds: Organic, Open Pollinated and Hybrid
- Peonies: Getting Better Blooms, Avoiding Blackened Leaves & The Curious Dance of the Ants
- The Care and Feeding of Orchids
- Garden Snakes
- Listener Solutions: Nutsedge and Deer
- Got Lots of Dandelions? EAT Your Weedies!
- Trees, Trimming and Power Lines: Let's be careful out there!
- Resisting Rascally Raccoons!
- Growing your own Sweetpotatoes; all you need is Time
- The 'Bulbing' Weeds: Wild Onion, Wild Garlic and Star of Bethlehem
- When Holly Met Harry: Plants that Need Pollinators
- Leaves: Use 'em, Don't Burn 'em!
- The Perennial Vegetables; Plant Once, Harvest Forever!
- Armadillos, Squirrels, Cats, Dogs—The Problem Doesn't Matter; Mothballs are NEVER the Answer
- Getting Birds and Butterflies to Peacefully Coexist
- Horsefly, Don't Bother Me!
- Take 'the Toledo Lesson' to Heart and Feed Your lawn Sanely
- Where, Oh Where Have my Hydrangeas Gone.....?
- Cedar Trees + Apple Trees = A VERY Weird Disease
- Morning Glories are Fine; Bindweed is Not!
- What Do 'Compost', Topsoil', 'Humus', 'Composted Soil' and Other 'Dirty Words' Really Mean?
- Rose Planting 101
- Don't Plant Over Top of Your Tulips!
- Grow Asparagus—The Perennial Vegetable!
- Cut Your Food Bill by Growing The Right Garden Crops
- What Eggshells can (and can't) do for your Tomatoes
- Should your lawn be made of moss?
- Dethatching Guide - When & How To Dethatch Your Lawn
- Are old seeds still good? When do you start seeds? Can you time Pumpkins for Halloween harvest?
- Get Frogs & Toads to Eat Your Bad Bugs!
- Growing Figs, North & South
- Thirty-Seven Reasons Not to use Chemical Herbicides
- How to Improve Clay and Sandy Soils for Gardening
- Mushrooms in Lawns
- Let's Grow Some Watermelon!
- What Is Peat Moss and How to Use It
- The 'Desert Island List'
- Bringing a Line of Hemlocks Down to Size
- Turns out A Dead Japanese Beetle IS a Good Japanese Beetle!
- Don't let Geese eat Your Gooseberries!
- An Unexpected and Beautiful Benefit of Violets
- When Nettles are Your Friend; Making Use of Abundantly Available Local Materials
- How Should Schools Deal With Weeds?
- Pennywort, Dollar Weed and Other Woes of Wetness
- Grapes: proper pruning and thinning can prevent black rot
- How to Help Teeny-Tiny Seedlings Grow Up Strong
- Wood Mulch! What is it Good For? (Actually, Some Things….)
- Don't Confuse Straw with Hay (Or Hay with Straw…) And what about "Straw Bale Gardening"?
- Does Garden Soil Get Old and Worn Out?
- It's Fall; Time to Plant Garlic, Pansies &Trees (oh my!)
- A Dozen Things to Do This Fall—and One Big Don't
- Turning' Your Compost: The Dirty Little Secret!
- Chiggers & No-See-Ums; Summer's Invisible Pests
- Ornamental Grasses: Screening and a Four-Season Show!
- Rose Rosette Virus--Can it be Beaten?
