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Care too little for your plants and soil, and they may dry out. Care too much for them, and they'll likely suffocate.

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Begin planning for a fall veggie garden. Crops such as carrots, cucumbers, turnips and radishes can be planted in mid-July, ...

I received an email from one of my readers about her Rhubarb or Rheumrhabarbarum. It seems that the stalks on her rhubarb were as thin and weak as they haveever been. Her rhubarb normally does well ...

Plastic manufacturers are pushing to have their products counted as compost. Composters and farmers are trying to stop them.

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