May is a busy time for sowing and planting out in the vegetable garden. There are plenty of seeds that can be sown outside ...

Bitter melon is a plant that grows in parts of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and South America. Its fruit looks like a cucumber and has a very strong bitter taste. People use bitter melon as both a ...

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For a particularly prolific corn harvest, consider planting a few helpful neighbors, from herbs to vegetables to some sweet ...

There's an important status in your garden for getting seeds to germinate properly. It's probably a word you've never heard.

found interplanting rows of watermelon with rows of radishes and buckwheat (a plant used to attract beneficial insects) resulted in fewer cucumber beetles on melon plants. Results suggested this ...

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Columnist Don Davis writes that it's safe to plant a wide variety of flowers and vegetables now that we have frost-free ...

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May is a wonderful time to plant melons, especially if you're dreaming of juicy melon balls by late summer. Start by choosing ...

Ants are often an early sign of the presence of aphids on a plant because they protect aphids from their natural enemies.

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