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Sometimes referred to as the cut-and-come-again method, picking the outer leaves of a lettuce plant and leaving the younger ...

Make the most of every square inch of garden space and containers with succession planting. As you harvest your first crop of ...

With beans and salads cleared, there remains plenty of growing time for a second crop. Seasoned gardeners will have raised ...

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Cascading varieties have a unique habit, with some stems growing upward, and others growing out and slightly down. As such, they fill both the “filler” and “spiller” roles in container designs. This ...

But when that gene is deactivated — through gene editing or through breeding that capitalizes on a naturally occurring variant that doesn’t react to higher temperatures — rice plants produce ...

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