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How to install and protect a backyard garden with raccoon fencing
As human habitation makes life more comfy and cozy for rodents, rabbits, woodchucks and raccoons, these pests are becoming increasingly destructive in our gardens. Many of these critters are clever at...
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Fruit Tree Tips: Protect your fruit trees from sunburn
A painted trunk on a young fruit tree If you live where the sun is strong, one of the more important things you can do to help young fruit trees grow well is to paint the lower part of the tree trunk...
View ArticleRecycle net bags to protect fruit and vegetables
You know those stretchy plastic netted bags you can sometimes find as packaging around avocados, potatoes, frozen turkeys and other offerings at the grocery store? Don’t just throw them away. They can...
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Protect Fruit on Fruit Trees
Growing fruit is attractive to many pests Fruit trees can add a lot to the landscape. They are attractive and come in sizes small enough to grow in big pots or large enough to sit under as shade trees....
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Gardening on the internet
Gardening on the Internet: Cartoon by Jane Gates Not only is the Internet a place where you can learn about gardening and get answers for many of your questions, but there are some very entertaining...
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Is the electric fence keeping rats out of the vegetable garden?
Fencing allows these vegetables to grow This a follow-up to the experiment started in autumn when I surrounded my vegetable garden with a pliable electrical fencing. The fencing, sold as raccoon fence,...
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Don’t forget winter fruit tree spraying
Decorative peach blossoms will set fine fruits if insects don’t wreak havoc on them! Healthy fruit trees are the result of good care. One of the more important aspects of getting good fruit and having...
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