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Home And Market Garden Losses From Blight Can’t Be Ignored

Most commercial potato farmers sprayed their way through last season and ended up with a normal- enough-looking crop. But 2010 was a heartbreaking year for home gardeners, as a nasty blight worked its way across Manitoba decimating all but the most remote or chemically treated tomatoes. First word of the blight appeared in a June
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Produce Can Cause Foodborne Illness

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When I teach food safety classes, I often ask my students which foods they associate with particular foodborne illnesses. They usually associate chicken or eggs with salmonella. But what about produce? Salmonella infections can cause fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. For young children, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems, the illness
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In A Pickle Over Blight – for Sep. 23, 2010

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Disheartened to see our garden tomatoes infected with blight this year, but determined to salvage something, I took the least-damaged green fruits (nothing ripened this year!), cut off the blemishes and proceeded to can twenty 500-ml jars of green tomato pickle. It was only after the last lid snapped, that I began to wonder: even
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Fun Ideas For “Crazy” Container Plantings

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NATIONAL GARDEN BUREAU Hanging basket – Cherry tomatoes. Vines will hang down over the sides. Large sweater boxes – Great for a hodgepodge of lettuce or mesclun. Old buckets – One tomato or pepper plant. Sow cilantro around it. Whiskey barrels – One winter squash plant. An old boot – One Swiss chard plant. A
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Start Tomato Seeds Soon

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Tomato seed should be sown no sooner than four to six weeks before the last spring frost. Plant the seed thinly, covering with a soilless mix to a depth of one-quarter inch, and use a mild fertilizer of one level teaspoon of 20 20 20 dissolved in two gallons of water at each watering. Keep
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Gene Transfer Can Help Fight Pests

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An international team of scientists has managed to transfer disease resistance from one plant family to another, offering broader protection from potentially costly and destructive pests. A team led by Cyril Zipfel at Britain’s Sainsbury Laboratory found that transferring a single gene from a wild plant to disease-susceptible crop plants made them more robust against
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Create a seasonal arrangement

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October can be a dreary month in the outdoor garden since most flowers – even the toughest of the perennials – have usually succumbed to frost by then. One way to add a bit of colour and interest to the outdoor landscape during the autumn is to create a dried porch arrangement. This will work

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