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Protect Your Garden from Harlequin Bugs

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Protect Your Garden from Harlequin Bugs

We recently met a gardener who had stopped growing tomatoes in his home garden because of the damage that bugs had done to his fruit in past years. A little questioning revealed that the insects his tomatoes were attracting were the ubiquitous harlequin bug.

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Growing Sweet Corn

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Growing Sweet Corn

Nothing is quite like picking your own sweet corn. Corn needs warm soil for best germination. Plan on making several sowings over your season. That way you’ll get to harvest throughout the summer. Corn needs plenty of sun, warmth, and water.

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Ecological Pest Control Solutions

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Ecological Pest Control Solutions

Springtime for gardeners means planting, weeding, and enjoying the beauty of flowers and new veggie plants. It can also involve dealing with such unpleasant visitors as aphids, gophers, slugs, snails and marauding scrub jays pecking away at just-ripening fruit.

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Gardening Tips: Thinning Peaches

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Gardening Tips: Thinning Peaches

Our peach trees are putting on lots of fruit this year, and now is the time to thin the immature fruit. Thinning the fruit is an important part of ensuring a good crop of large peaches, and will also help prevent breakage of branches and limbs later in the season.

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Deciduous Fruit Tree Care

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Deciduous Fruit Tree Care

In our gardens we're working on pruning our deciduous fruit trees. We're also planting bare root fruit trees, grape vines, strawberries, and berry canes. Using our Valley Oak Tool Co. broadfork to loosen the soil makes planting much easier. We’re  also keeping an eye on diseases and insect pests.

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