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Founded in 1973, the National Gardening Association (NGA) is the largest nonprofit association of home, school, and community gardeners in the United States. Our mission is to cultivate new gardeners and help flower and food growing enthusiasts ... [... more]
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Nylabone Spearmint - Regular
 Features: Healthy edible Nylabones. Spearmint Breath bone. Made with real spearmint. No added plastic, sugar, salt, color additives or preservatives. Great dog treat and chew. Size: 4.5 inches Binding: Misc. Ingredients: Potato starch, calcium carbonate, [... more]
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Repellents.
There are quite a few products with flavors and odors offensive to deer that gardeners can spray on plants or spread on the soil. Some (fermented egg yolks) offend deer's sense of smell; others (predator urines) frighten them. More of these ... [... more]
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Making permanent beds.
Raised beds are popular because they are relatively easy to build, plant, weed, and maintain. Since the soil can drain sooner and warm up faster in spring, they enable you to plant earlier in the season. You can make a garden of permanent or ... [... more]
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Eliminate hiding places.
Growing your own apple trees is relatively easy, but avoiding insect and disease damage to the fruit requires pruning and prevention. Sprays of horticultural oil, liquid sulfur, Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki, and perhaps phosmet(Imidan) Prune ... [... more]
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Choose planting pattern.
You can plant many crops directly in the garden, especially root vegetables, crops with large seeds, and seeds of plants that can mature within your growing season. The correct time to plant each crop varies widely according to the climate where ... [... more]
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When to prune.
As with other fruit trees, the main goal of pruning apple trees is to increase fruit quantity and quality. On young trees, training and pruning establish a healthy framework of branches. Continue pruning once or twice a year to maintain the ... [... more]
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Single stake for support.
The best way to keep tomatoes trim and healthy is to train them onto supports and prune tall-growing kinds during the growing season. (Pruning directs the plants' energy into fruit production rather than producing excess foliage). A stake, ... [... more]
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Infestation
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Nylabone Spearmint - Giant
Features: Healthy edible Nylabones. Spearmint Breath bone. Made with real spearmint. No added plastic, sugar, salt, color additives or preservatives. Great dog treat and chew. Size: 8 inches Binding: Misc. EAN: 0018214808060 MPN: NES104 Package Quantity: [... more]
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How-To Project: Controlling Slugs
If there's one garden pest that's universally despised, it's slugs. Not only do they eat prized vegetables, herbs, and flowers at night while you sleep, but when you do catch them, they're so slimy and squishy that many gardeners won't even touch ... [... more]
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Start plants early and late.
Whether you live in Toronto, where the frost-free vegetable growing season is under 200 days long, or in Southern California, where it's over 300 days long, sometimes the season seems just too short. When this is the case, you can use the ... [... more]
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