Dealing with Lemon Diseases
Like all food crops, lemon trees are susceptible to various fungal diseases. Your best weapons against these are best planting practices, which help prevent disease in the first place. …
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How to Choose the Best Garden Shears for the Job
Of all the garden tools I’ve acquired over the years (and there are quite a few), I tend to use the same four or five tools over and over again. …
10 Ways to Begin Preparing a Garden for Spring
I’ll admit that here in New England, it’s a little hard in the bite of the winter to think about preparing a garden for spring. It’s the time of year …
3 Tools Needed to Start a Garden and 3 You Really Don’t Need
When I started my very first vegetable garden, I must have lingered in my garden center’s aisles for over an hour trying to figure out what were the tools needed …
5 Garden Hand Tools Every Greenthumb Should Have
When I started my first vegetable garden I went a little tool-crazy. I bought every type of shovel, shear, and weeding gadget marketed to me at big box home and …
How to Spot, Treat, and Prevent Tomato Diseases
Tomato plant diseases are caused by bacteria, fungi, and viruses. The diseases can spread through the soil, water, air, infected tools, animals, and even gardeners themselves. …
How to Grow Parsley: Every Kitchen’s Essential Herb
In this month’s Food Gardening Magazine, you get everything you need to know about planting parsley, growing parsley, and harvesting parsley—and, ultimately, your parsley plant care will determine just how …
