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How To Keep Healthy Trees

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Like your 401K, your trees are leafy investments that pay dividends. You want to keep them green and growing for years to come.

6 Ideas To Extend The Garden Harvest

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Eat from your garden year-round with these season-extending techniques that allow you to grow food even when the temperatures dip.

Cultivate Good Fungus in Your Soil

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Part of a healthy soil structure means creating fungal structures, called mycelium, through which plants communicate and share nutrients.

UF Hack: Improve Soil With Sheet Mulch

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Avoid weeds and build soil with sheet mulch—it’s a heckuva lot easier than weeding the garden!

UF Hack: Speed Up Composting With A Mow-Over

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Grinding up your compostables into smaller pieces aids in the decomposition process, meaning you’ll have black gold in no time.

7 Tips To Plan For Pollinators

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Planting a garden that fosters native pollinators will create a circular relationship that benefits plants and insects alike.

UF Hack: Multi-Grafted Fruit Trees

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Grow many types of fruit in a small space by grafting several different fruit cultivars onto one rootstock.

UF Hack: Renew Fruit Trees With Pollarding

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Give an old, unproductive orchard tree new life with this historical pruning method.

3 Ways to Start the Spring Garden with Cold Frames

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Add four weeks to the front of the growing season by using cold frames to start your garden.

How to Start Seeds Indoors

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Grow healthy crops from start to finish by setting up an indoor seed-starting station.

6 Compost Problems and How to Fix Them

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Composting is pretty easy, but every once in awhile, you run into a snafu. Use these tips to troubleshoot your problems.

5 Herbs Perfect For Container Gardening

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Short on space but want to grow your own kitchen staples? These herbs are the best place to start.

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