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A person gestures in a garden with vegetables and sunflowers under a bright sky.

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14-year garden trial finds no-dig beds yield 12% more with the same compost

Wilted plants.

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'Just kept dying on the vine': Gardeners puzzled by poor summer squash harvests

Red apples clustered on a branch with green leaves in a grassy background.

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UK apple tree dispute leaves homeowner with $273,000 legal bill over rotten fruit

A woman holds a plant branch with leaves and flowers while another image shows various harvested vegetables.

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A backyard food forest keeps producing through heat that wipes out garden beds

A person stands in a garden, discussing trellises for growing vining tomatoes among green foliage and tomatoes.

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Gardener warns common tomato cages can topple vining tomatoes by midseason

A person sorts and chops freshly harvested onions in a garden and kitchen setting.

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Gardener says bolted onions can rot from the inside, shares plan to save the harvest

A man stands by wilted tomato plants in containers, with a garden structure in the background.

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North Carolina gardener shares the preventable mistakes that doomed his container garden

A person near sweet potato leaves.

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Gardeners share which leafy greens thrive in desert heat when lettuce and spinach fail

A person saying plants don't like extreme heat.

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Gardeners who quit in August could miss the simplest season for fast-growing crops

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From rainbow roses to giant tomatoes, an eBay seed experiment separates hype from harvest

A community garden.

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South Africa garden helps people facing homelessness grow food, income, and a path to recovery

Pineapple plants in a garden.

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Even in peak heat, this Jamaica container garden is still turning out a steady harvest