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GARDENING

Removing spent blooms from your garden flowers can be tedious work. Pinching or pruning dead flowers is not just a matter of aesthetics, it can also encourage additional blooming.
Nothing disrupts the beauty and productivity of a garden more than a takeover of weeds. Fortunately, a combination of timing, technique and good garden habits can keep weeds in check.
Trellising lets us grow smarter, not just bigger, by using vertical space to improve harvests and reduce disease.
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In Fielding Questions, readers also asked about why cucumbers might be ailing and what to do about mushrooms in the lawn.

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Iron chlorosis can be treated but may lead to tree death.
Visits to the garden center give us lots of ideas about gardening and landscaping, and we can hardly wait to get home and put those new plants in the ground.
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In Fielding Questions, Don Kinzler identifies an unwanted seedling and shares how to curb grass growing in asparagus plants as well as fertilizing tips for Wave petunias.
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“Until the annuals gain full speed, early summer can lack color. But if we plan properly, June-blooming perennials can bridge the color gap, making this month one of the most colorful of the summer season,” Don Kinzler writes.
Here's a way you can help stop the spread of pests on your farm and across the region.
Growing honeyberries, also known as haskap berries, can be a rewarding experience. These berries are not only delicious but also hardy and easy to grow in our USDA hardiness Zone 3a.

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A joint partnership to bring a community garden to Bemidji's New Day Center finally came to fruition on Thursday with a ground blessing ceremony and planting taking place the following day.
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In Fielding Questions, readers also asked about the cause of a bumpy lawn and how to successfully move hostas.
Is that beautiful amaryllis flower from last Christmas still languishing on the corner of your plant stand? Now is the time to revive it for rebloom next December.

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