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Knapweed: A Thistle Lookalike

Crops & Gardening
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Often looked at as an invasive, knapweed has historically been used as a natural medicine, treating anything from sores to digestive complaints.

4 Tips For Saving Seeds From The Squash Family

Crops & Gardening
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If you want to grow cucumbers, squash and melons while also saving seeds, you need to tread carefully.

Watch Out For The Blister Beetle

Crops & Gardening
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This lightning bug lookalike can cause a painful welt—hence its name—if it gets too close, not to mention defoliate your garden.

4 Ways To Get More Ripe Tomatoes Before The First Frost

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Encourage your tomatoes to ripen quickly before the end of the season so that your green tomato stash is a bit smaller.

Celeriac: The Autumn Vegetable You Should Be Growing

Crops & Gardening
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This under-rated root vegetable rarely makes an appearance on our dinner tables—but it should!

The Hands-Off Gardening Approach To Fall

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This fall, give yourself permission to neglect your garden and let nature do all the work.

5 Cover Crops Good For Your Health And The Soil

Crops & Gardening
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When you take care of your soil by planting a cover crop, don’t overlook the medicine hiding in these plants.

Bumblebees: America’s Pollinator Pros

Beekeeping | Crops & Gardening |
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While honeybees grab media headlines, native bumblebees diligently do the pollination work their non-native cousins can’t.

The Rusty Patched Bumblebee May Soon Join the Endangered Species List

Beekeeping | Crops & Gardening | News |
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If the proposal passes, it will be the first bee species to be considered endangered in the U.S.

Grow Your Own Sesame Seeds

Crops & Gardening
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Open sesame—you can harvest your own sesame seed crop right from your own garden.

Use Tree Prunings To Improve Your Soil

Crops & Gardening
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After you’ve pruned back your trees, use the wood scraps in your garden to add organic matter to the soil.

The Parsley Worm: A Love-Hate Relationship

Crops & Gardening
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You may be conflicted about finding this caterpillar in your garden—whatever you do, handle the situation with care.

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