Garden Variety
By Iowa Public Radio
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Whether you're a master gardener, just getting started or somewhere in between - there's always something new to learn in your garden and landscape. On each episode we'll talk with horticulturists, foresters and other experts. We'll learn about vegetable gardens, lawns, native plants, trees and more. Garden Variety is the podcast for all the things you'd like to grow or grow better.
Garden Variety is a horticulture podcast from Iowa Public Radio and Iowa State University Extension and Outreach.
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These native plants are fan-grass-tic!
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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Getting bark to basics
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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Grape vines think alike
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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Closer I am to vine
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Grow with the flow
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May 29, 2026 |
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Diversi-tree is key
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May 22, 2026 |
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We didn't start the fire blight
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May 15, 2026 |
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Lawn story short
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May 01, 2026 |
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Berry good blueberry tips
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Small but might-tree
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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BONUS: The pep talk you need to start a backyard prairie
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Get a thrillium from trillium
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Pest in show
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Grow with what you know
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Spot and treat those plant spots early
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Stumped on which tree to pick?
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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The root to great fruit
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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The bugs are back in town
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Fine pruning your fruit trees
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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BONUS: Exploding trees? Please!
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Prune with purpose
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Getting to the root of African violets
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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BONUS: A ditch tree for free
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Mistletoe, holly, and all plants jolly
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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A look at the Christmas indus-tree
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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BONUS: Trouble in tropical plant paradise
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Follow these cider house rules
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Berry good winter prep
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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BONUS: Respect your insects
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Leaf me alone
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Scare your plants off
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Too bug to fail
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Daffodil with it
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Put your vegetable garden to bed
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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BONUS: An acorn storm
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Fall aboard!
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Vine and dandy
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Flower you doing?
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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Mighty morphing flower rangers
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Lawning for the perfect yard
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Wait until the time is ripe to harvest your fruit
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Don't judge a crop by its cover
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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How to avoid an identi-tree crisis
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Glow your own way
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Switch it up with switchgrass
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Try out this gardening root-ine
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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The ultimate power plants
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Better than all the pest
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Tools for the turf war
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Conducting tree-age before it's too late
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Now that's un-bean-lievable!
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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A conifer-sation with a plant expert
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May 30, 2025 |
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These blooms are iris-sistable
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May 23, 2025 |
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Kiwi berries? Fur-get about it
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May 16, 2025 |
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Import-ant advice for your home and garden
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May 09, 2025 |
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Become a succession boss
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May 02, 2025 |
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Diseases with the gall to kill our plants
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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How to know when it's time to mow
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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Lettuce help you with your vegetable garden
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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What your seedlings are needling
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Midwest isn't the easiest place to bee
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Prune-in to this show for fruit tree tips
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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The Name Game (plant edition)
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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Get rich in soil knowledge
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Don't cut your flowers' beauty short
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Plants that will give you their undying love
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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You won't forking believe these gardening tips
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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Ex-seed your expectations this year
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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Tis the season to be a nutcracker
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Dreaming of a green Christmas tree
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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Kind of a fig deal
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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BONUS: A rare bee discovery
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Wicked witch of the pest
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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A look at plant disease trends this year
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Shiver me timbers
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Gourd big or go home
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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More like dry-owa
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Fall perennials are bloomin brilliant
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Bet your autumn dollar
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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May the forced bulbs be with you
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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'Tis the season for freezing
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Iowa's fields of green are turning gold
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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Advice for hard-core apple lovers
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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BONUS: Don’t fear the Ghost Plant
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Plentiful perennials
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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Unwelcome beehavior
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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BONUS: Pondering our pollinators
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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How to dill with excess herbs
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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What's shrub got to do with it?
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Friend or foe? Predator or prey?
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Practice what you peach
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Leaf your root worries behind
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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Cease the disease
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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Sweet corn is an a-maize-ing summer crop
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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Nothing a homegrown tomato won't cure
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Contain your plants, not your excitement
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Born a bramblin man
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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Welcome to the shrub club
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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This episode is jam-packed with great advice
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May 31, 2024 |
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In the mood to brood
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May 24, 2024 |
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Highway to the hardiness zone
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May 17, 2024 |
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BONUS: Cicadas
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May 14, 2024 |
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Assets for your baskets
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May 10, 2024 |
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BONUS: Invasive Species
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May 07, 2024 |
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He speaks for the trees!
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May 03, 2024 |
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A little mower lawn advice
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Blooming brilliant tips for beautiful trees
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Take the petal to the metal
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Advice for when insects make you want to flea
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Breaking bud
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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What to do when mustard has you flustered
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Sowing seeds of knowledge
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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These plants really deliver
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Throwing shade and catching rays
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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BONUS: Philadelphia Flower Show
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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The key to a successful garden - variety!
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Flowers for that special some bud-y
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Water hydroponics good for anyway?
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Extra, extra! Seed all about it!
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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BONUS: Behind the Scenes with the Hort Gang
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Tree-mendous advice for your holiday plants
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Holidays are betta with a poinsettia
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Bird is the word and less is more
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Let's get to the root of the issue
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Do weekend garden tasks before clocks fall back
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Don't believe the web of lies about spiders
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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BONUS: Getting ready for fall
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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A very prairie episode
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Color me glad
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Mum is the word, and we're telling everyone
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Honeyberry, I'm home!
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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The shrub can't even handle me right now
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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We're keen for greens this fall
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Social Wasps do their own sting
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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BONUS: Fireflies in Iowa
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Mower lawn care advice
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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BONUS: Everything melon
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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A bunch of grape advice
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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BONUS: Our favorite garden Q&A
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Is the grass greener? Choosing new plants
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Singing Scissor Grinder Cicada all summer long
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Who turnip-ed the heat?
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Sweet re-leaf
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Can I offer you a cucurbit of advice?
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Beetlemania
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Don't forget the trees!
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Keep your tomato plants feelin vine
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Puns and roses
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Have you tried turning it melon and off again?
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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International flavors, grown at home
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Fern up the volume
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May 26, 2023 |
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What's your damage?
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May 19, 2023 |
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Check out our tick talk
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May 12, 2023 |
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And they lived appley ever after
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May 05, 2023 |
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BONUS: the morel of the story
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May 02, 2023 |
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Tree advice you can be-leaf in
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Not just tu-lip service
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Building a healthy garden from the ground up
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Keeping that lawn green
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Don't let this shrub you the wrong way
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Mow grass, mow problems
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Fruit tree advice that's pear-fect for spring
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Late winter advice that's cool as a cucumber
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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You wood not make it without this tree and shrub advice
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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The window to prune is closing soon
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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I like you a vio-lot
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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And this zone is just right
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Getting the bugs worked out
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Celery-brate the holidays with the 2022 gardening gift guide
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Impeckable advice for supporting bird populations
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Branch out this winter with our forestry expert
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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How to get holiday blooms on your cactus
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Insect puns bug me
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Clean, gourd fun
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Find the greener ornamental grass
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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It's leaf peeping season in Iowa
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Turf's up
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Daffodils for spring? Groundbreaking
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Core knowledge for great apples
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Not just good, grape
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Bees are reveling in fall pollen
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Fall in love with late season perennials
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Pining after healthy conifers
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Strong to the finish, overwintering spinach
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Making your lawn seed-sational
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Answering berry important questions
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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How can we help monarch butterflies?
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Insert corny pun here
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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What to do when all h*ll oaks loose
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Happy little trees
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Stalk talk: caring for broccoli and cauliflower
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Ch-ch-changes: talking about growth and how landscapes evolve
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Find the best groundcovers for your yard
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Bonus episode: gardening and native plants
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Ants in your plants
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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Late bloomers: it’s not too late to plant sweet potatoes
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May 27, 2022 |
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Peony for your thoughts
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May 20, 2022 |
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How to care for apple trees
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May 13, 2022 |
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You say tomato
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May 06, 2022 |
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Introducing: Garden Variety
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May 03, 2022 |