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Get It Growing: Weed control without chemicals
Weeds are just plants growing in the wrong place. They are not inherently evil, but they multiply rapidly…
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Get It Growing: Harvesting ‘fruits’ of your labors
It’s time to harvest many tree fruits including apples, pears and figs. For best results, fruit should be…
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Get It Growing: Planting cover crops
Cover crops are crops you grow to benefit the soil. You do not harvest them like other crops…
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Get It Growing: Why do fruit trees fail to bear?
Thinning fruit on a heavily laden fruit tree prevents breakage of limbs. Reducing the number of fruit will…
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Get It Growing: Saving seeds
Saving seeds from your own garden can be satisfying and save you money. But to be successful, you…
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Get It Growing: Steps to vine-ripened tomatoes this season
You planted your tomatoes in early June and the bushes are growing like weeds. But you’ve made it…
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Get It Growing: Renovate now to improve next year’s harvest of strawberries
Strawberry fields forever? Well the Beatles didn’t get that one quite right.
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Get It Growing: Plant now for fall, winter vegetables
For many areas of the country, harvesting the last summer vegetables from the garden can be a gloomy…
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Get It Growing: Fertilizers 101, the basics
Because of a production error, the June 26 “Get It Growing Column” was only partially printed. Here is…