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Get Free Plants You'll Love with Cuttings
There are different ways to make cuttings and different times of the year to make them, but they're all pretty easy to learn. -
Preventing Pests Organically with Diatomaceous Earth
It's used in all sorts of things from pool filters to kitty litter -- and in gardening diatomaceous earth is touted as an effective organic pesticide. -
How to Grow Bee Balm and Attract Pollinators
It's a very popular garden flower from the mint family that not only adds vibrant colour to your garden, but also attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. -
Tomatoes: The Most Popular Garden Veggie
It's one of the most popular plants grown in gardens around the world -- and one of the biggest vegetable crops worldwide. But it wasn't always that way. -
Preventing Blossom-End Rot
We'd all prefer a simple solution, but preventing blossom-end rot isn't as easy as adding calcium to your soil -- or even consistent watering. -
How to Get Rid of Japanese Beetles
What can you do to avoid getting Japanese beetles in your garden -- or at least reduce the damage they do? And do traps do more harm than good? -
Japanese Beetles: The Basics
They only live about 10-15% of their lives above ground, but as both larvae and adults, Japanese beetles can do a lot of damage to your garden. -
Is That a Bee? Or a Wasp?
As much as we love them, most of us would have a hard time reliably picking bees out of a lineup. -
Which Bees Should We Worry About?
Gardeners love bees and what they do for our gardens. But some bees get a lot more attention than others. And that may not be good for bees in general. -
Identifying and Treating Plant Disease
Fungicides and other sprays. And can you really identify diseases from symptoms?
Two Minutes in the Garden
By Empress of Dirt
Bite-sized informative updates on gardening basics, solutions, myths, news and other subjects of interest to gardeners both new and experienced. From the popular Empress of Dirt website (empressofdirt.net), home of creative and frugal ideas for your backyard garden.
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