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Growing Fruit

Growing fruit is easy with the right guidance. Learn how to grow small fruits, like strawberries, or set up your own fruit tree orchard. We focus on organic orcharding and fruit production for healthy, delicious fruit.

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Watermelon in the Home Garden

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Jonathan Apples: What Are They and How to Grow Them

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How to Tell When Cantaloupe Is Ripe

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How to Grow Cantaloupe

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Growing Strawberry Plants

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Simple Method for Propagating Peach Trees from Softwood Cuttings

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Can You Grow a Lemon Tree from a Seed?

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Growing Fig Trees in Virginia

Growing Ground Cherries

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What Causes Deformed Strawberries?

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How to Plant a Peach Tree

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Backyard Garden Design Ideas: Landscaping with Edibles

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Growing Figs in My Backyard – an Update

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Easy Ways to Save Cantaloupe Seeds

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Cantaloupe vs Muskmelon – What Is the Difference?

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September Gardening: Tasks & Tips

Fall is the time for mums, for pumpkins, and another round of pansies — for soft golden twilights and leaves crunching underfoot. September is the last month here in zones 6 and 7 when the garden is still lush and full. We’re harvesting the last of the tomatoes here at Seven Oaks, my farm near…

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Assassin Bugs – Scary Looking, But Beneficial Insects

We meet the strangest neighbors while walking the dog. This assassin bug was strolling across the pavement on a hot summer’s evening when we walked our dog. At first, I thought it was a wolf spider, but the leg arrangement, plus the narrower body, made me decide to snap a picture and use Google Lens…

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American Burnweed, the Weed That Signals Fall Is Here

I was walking my dog along the wood’s edge right near where we cleared land to build our greenhouse when I did a double take. There, like Jack’s magical beanstalk, had grown overnight this gem: American burnweed. Also known as fireweed or American burn weed, it grows rapidly – and I mean, rapidly. Like I…

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Summer squash

What Can You Make with Summer Squash?

It’s that time of year when everyon asks, “What can I make with summer squash?”. The time when neighbors sneak bags of summer squash onto porches. When farmer’s markets are brimming with yellow and green squash, zucchini, and all manner of Cucurbitaceae, the plant family that gives, and gives, until it can’t give anymore. If…

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