Jeff Rugg
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Jeff Rugg
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Good Garden Books
If you have a gardener in your family—or maybe you need to drop some hints for yourself—here are a few new books that will make...
All-America Selections Vegetable Winners for 2025
Only the vegetalbe entries with the highest nationwide average score are considered worthy of a national AAS Award.
Use Your Resolutions To Help Others
Resolutions that involve or help other people are more likely to be kept than ones focusing on yourself. Here a few you can try in...
Gift Basket Plants
People like to give plants as gifts for birthdays, when a baby is born, or for funerals. Here are a few to add to your...
Last-Minute Gardener Gifts
We are down to the last week of shopping for Christmas presents. I have a few last-minute gift ideas that you can still get by...
Gardening Books Galore
Sticking with last week's theme of books that are good for gardeners, here are a few more.
Good Gardening Doesn’t Stop as You Get Older
Even if you are a young gardener now, you are getting older every day, and the time will come when old age sneaks up on...
Ice-Melting Products for the Landscape
I was told that I could use lawn fertilizer to melt the ice, and it would then fertilize the grass when the weather warms up....
Amaryllis Care for Bigger Bulbs and More Flowers
I have tried growing amaryllis bulbs, and they seem to grow smaller each year. What am I doing wrong?
Keeping Fall Chrysanthemums Another Year
"I have three potted mums on my porch. The flowers are fading, and I am wondering what to do with them next. They were expensive,...
Fall Vegetable Garden Questions
Help! I planted my tomato plants late, and then we had a lot of hot, dry weather, so there were no tomatoes. Now there are...
Cures for Lumpy Lawns
"My lawn is getting lumpy, for lack of a better word. What would be a good way to smooth it out?"
Fall Bird Feeders and Bulbs
"For the past month, we have had several hummingbirds using our feeder. It hangs in front of my office window, and I notice them all...
Bringing Plants Indoors for the Winter? Here’s How to Water Your Houseplants
Plants use water 24 hours a day, but we don't have to water them 24 hours a day, because the soil acts like a sponge...
Tropical Houseplant Fall Care
Many tropical houseplants are large trees or shrubs in their original habitat, and they can grow rapidly in one summer outdoors. But what about autumn?
Watering Fall Plants
With the drought conditions we experienced this summer, what should we do for watering this fall to help our plants make it through the winter?
Pumpkin Substitutes
Can you make a better "pumpkin" pie by using butternut squash? Here's what to know about pumpkin substitutes.
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