Native to Europe, this cool-season biennial is wreaking havoc on deciduous forests from New England west to Wisconsin and south to Tennessee. Read Garlic Mustard: A Palatable Pest
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Ecological Gardening
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Garlic Mustard: A Palatable Pest
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Drought-Proofing Your Garden: Essential Water-Saving Strategies and Plant List
A drought emergency is a time to take steps to substantially reduce water use in the garden. Here's some tips on how to conserve water with drought-tolerant plants and longer-term solutions to your garden more compatible with natural precipitation patterns. Read Drought-Proofing Your Garden: Essential Water-Saving Strategies and Plant List
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What and How to Compost
What can I put in the compost pile? What does composting mean, and how does it work? Read What and How to Compost
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Seed Specifics
Fortunately, a Ph.D. in botany or genetics isn't necessary to grow plants successfully from seed. But this article on seed basics will help you better understand what seeds are, where they come from, their role in plant reproduction, and why they are so critical to the health and survival of plant species. Read Seed Specifics
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Planting a Native Grass Lawn Step By Step
Follow these basic steps to plant a lawn of native grasses no matter where you live. Read Planting a Native Grass Lawn Step By Step
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Low & Slow Fescues
For years fescues languished as obscure players in the turfgrass pantheon, relegated to second-class status as components of shade-tolerant seed mixtures. These attractive, fine-textured grasses are finally coming into their own. Read Low & Slow Fescues
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How Compost Builds the Soil
Soil is a living community that requires nurture. And well-nurtured soil in turn nurtures the plants that are part of it. Read How Compost Builds the Soil
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Everything You Need (Or Don’t Need) to Compost: A Guide to Equipment
If you are a casual, carefree sort, you can just toss your organics into a corner of the garden and they'll slowly become humus without any intervention. But depending on your personality and the amount of time and money you are willing to put into composting, you can also get fully outfitted with an array of composting gadgets and accessories, from auger-shaped aerating tools to herbal compounds designed to inoculate your compost with "medicinal and homeopathic forces." Read Everything You Need (Or Don’t Need) to Compost: A Guide to Equipment
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Deer-Resistant Plants: Shrubs and Trees for the Deer-Plagued Gardener
Over the past few decades, plant damage caused by deer has risen to alarming levels in North American rural and suburban gardens. Read Deer-Resistant Plants: Shrubs and Trees for the Deer-Plagued Gardener
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Nine Keys to Plant Disease Prevention
Prevention is the key to plant-disease control. This is true whether a disease is infectious (involving host-parasite relationships between plants and pathogens such as certain fungi, bacteria, or viruses) or non-infectious (involving disorders such as nutrient deficiencies or winter damage). Read Nine Keys to Plant Disease Prevention