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It’s that time of year when zucchinis and crooknecks and patty pans crowd the garden space. One day the plants are clusters of large green leaves. The next day, there’s enough squash to feed the neighborhood. And so, July becomes the season of giveaways. Veggie drop is a form of tag. The dropper tags you with a basket of beans …
The dreaded tomato hornworm. Manduca quinquemaculata—a wickedly long name for a gardener’s Enemy Number One. Beware. He has designs on your tomato patch. One day you have a picture-perfect tomato on the vine. You let it grow one more day, to get a little more juicy and vine-ripened. And the next morning you wake to see the tomato half eaten, …
If you’re a gardener, you know the siren call of bedding plants and seed packets from the neighborhood garden center. Buy me! Plant me! And if you’re like me, you give in because you believe the colorful posters. You picture in a wide-brimmed hat in a weed-free garden, holding more produce to feed a small army. April is the gardener’s …