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How to Ripen Green Tomatoes: What to Pick and What to Leave

I’m in my garden, looking at a jungle: before me is a tangle of cherry tomatoes in various stages of…
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“I just want to cry,” a distraught gardening friend told me. “Everything I planted this spring is just sitting there—there’s…
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“It must be true; I saw it on social media.” Any gardener who’s spent time scrolling social media has come…
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Gardening may not require a gym membership, but after an afternoon of hauling bags of compost, pushing a wheelbarrow, pulling…
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Every July, my inbox fills with messages from worried gardeners: “My blossoms are falling!” “My tomato cracked!” “Why is it…
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By mid-July, the excitement of planting season has faded into the daily rhythm of watering, harvesting, weeding, and wondering whether…
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