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A butterfly pea flower being steeped to make electric-blue tea.

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Butterfly pea offers electric-blue blooms, herbal tea, and a lemon-triggered color change

A gardener examining a strawberry plant.

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Those long strawberry stems can turn into free plants every year — here's when to snip

Fig fruits on a tree, a potted fig tree, and a person holding a sliced fig showing its interior.

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Renters and beginners can grow figs in one container, and still harvest plenty

Two Flock surveillance cameras, each with a solar panels, mounted on poles, surrounded by green foliage.

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Arizona town agrees to revisit Flock cameras after residents raise surveillance fears

A woman holds a ripe tomato while standing among garden plants.

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Gardener warns late tomato flowers may be hurting your harvest more than helping it

A woman holds a freshly cut dragon fruit and takes a bite while standing among cactus plants.

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Jamaica gardener grows dragon fruit at home, and one bite upends its bland reputation

A person holds freshly harvested potatoes in a garden while another person digs in the soil nearby.

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First-time potato growers use a quick thumb test to see which potatoes are ready to store

Tomatoes of various colors and sizes are growing on plants and gathered in a woven basket.

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Maryland gardener says her worst tomato season still produced her biggest harvest ever

A watermelon with rot on the outside.

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Gardener cuts into undersized watermelon with rot, and finds bright red fruit inside

Two pumpkins.

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Gardener distraught after groundhog devours volunteer pumpkin just as it ripens

A Bengal tiger canna lily.

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Long-awaited Bengal Tiger canna lily bloom stuns gardeners with its tropical colors

A person uses a lawn mower to cut grass in a yard.

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Boring side yard becomes kitchen garden that changed one family's meals, gatherings, and time outside