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It's a chore many of us have to do, whether we delay it or we love making our yard look pristine with mowed lines in the grass. I'm personally not the biggest fan of mowing my lawn and tend to put off the task in comparison to other work I need to do in the yard – so if you're like this, you're not alone!

But thinking about this had me wondering, how often does a pers...


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For some reason, I regularly “forget” that I can propagate more than a few plants from cuttings in summer. Then July arrives, and I have to look up the list of plants. It’s particularly odd since I grow (and love!) most of the plants that are top candidates for rooting from cuttings in July.

What are the best bets in July if you want to


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If your summer containers are anything like mine, there will be a few that already look like they’ve done their time and seem ready to curl up in the heat. Summer is a weird season: it seems to take forever to arrive, but when it does, it can feel like everything happens in a few days, only for key plants to lose their joyful tones almost as soon as the colors finally pop. ...


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Hydrangeas are native to understory woodlands, where they benefit from dappled shade and consistently moist soil. As a result, they have developed shallow roots and large, thin leaves that lose water quickly. If sited in a hot, sunny spot, they soon begin to struggle. As the upper layer of soil dries out, the shrubs can't take up enough moisture to replace what they're losi...


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Warm nights, humid afternoons, and a canopy that has closed in. Midsummer hands fungal and bacterial diseases everything they need to thrive. Here are six turning up in vegetable beds right now, and what actually works against each one.

July is when the vegetable garden stops looking like a magazine spread. The plants are big, the canopy has closed in, and somewhere d...


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