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Your Plants May Not Be Failing. They May Simply Be Trying to Survive. It happens fast. Your garden looked pretty good a week ago. Then the temperature climbed. And stayed there. Suddenly: Tomato leaves are curling. Flowers are dropping. Peppers stop producing. Plants wilt every afternoon. Cucum...
Sometimes the Most Important Late-Summer Gardening Decision Is Knowing When to Stop Trying This has been a strange growing season. Some gardens endured serious heat unusually early. Others got off to a late start and are only now reaching peak production. Some tomato plants look exhausted. Some p...
You Can't Add More Days to the Season—But You Can Make Better Use of the Ones You Have As summer begins winding down, many gardeners start looking at the calendar instead of their garden. "Is it too late to plant?" "Will I have enough time before frost?" "Should I even bother?" The answer depen...
