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As you watch your garden transition out of its summer showiness into the rich hues of autumn, it’s time to think about overwintering geraniums. You don’t have to lose your ornamental favorites to the first frost! It’s actually easy to save geraniums from a compost bin fate, so you can enjoy their annual flowers next year (and the year after and so on).
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Because peppers are grown in many parts of the world as annuals, you may not realize they’re actual tropical perennials and it’s possible to learn how to overwinter pepper plants. The process of overwintering involves bringing a plant indoors during the cold months—when they would typically die in the garden—and reintroducing it to the outdoors for the next growing season. How to overwinter pepper plants isn’t as hard to learn as you might think. In this article you’ll learn four ways gardeners find success overwintering peppers.
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Learning how to make your own cucumber beetle trap can save you a lot of trouble and prevent the need for pesticides. In this article, I’ll share the easy DIY cucumber beetle trap I’ve been using for years. It doesn’t cost much to make using only simple household materials and only takes a few moments of your time to set up.
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I first discovered fabric raised beds in Quebec City. I was there for a garden writers’ conference a few years ago new, and they seemed to be everywhere I went: in front of the parliament buildings featuring a lush ornamental mix of vegetables, herbs, and flowers; lined up in rows on the roof of a shelter; and supporting a gorgeous living willow pergola at a botanical garden.
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Propagating hostas at home is a fun, budget-friendly activity for fans of these shade-loving perennials. While every visit to the plant nursery is an exercise in self-control, you can avoid a trip by dividing your own hostas to populate your garden spaces. Here I’ll cover when and how to propagate hostas, step-by-step, as well as how to care for the plants after division. It’s the best way to make more hostas for free!
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If you’ve gone to the time and effort to establish fig trees in your landscape—or you’re thinking about growing figs for the first time—you’ll need to understand just why, when, and how to prune a fig tree. Get it right and you can direct the new growth of your tree and make sure that new branches have ample access to fresh air and sunlight, so that they can be as productive as possible. The result? Year after year, you should be able to harvest some of the best fruit you’ve ever tasted from late summer and into fall.
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