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Gardening

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Roots and Shoots: Signs of Spring

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Planning for three-season color

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Roots and Shoots: Plant Sales? Now?

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Order forms available to secure your seedlings

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Roots and Shoots: Is It Spring Yet?

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What you can do now to prepare

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Roots and Shoots: Dig Deeper in 2017

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Create a space for new things to flourish

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Roots and Shoots: Gifts for the Gardener

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Fourth annual guide includes great winter reading

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Roots and Shoots: Seeds, Glorious Seeds

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A few reasons to save seeds

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Roots and Shoots: Tales From a Community Garden

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Three gardeners, three plots. What they did and what they learned.

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Roots and Shoots: Lessons From a Community Garden

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Hits and misses, and endless weeds

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Roots and Shoots: Put Your Leaf Blower Away

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Leave the leaves for a healthier yard

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Roots and Shoots: It’s Not Winter Yet — Keep Weeding

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Vigilance now will make your spring easier

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Roots and Shoots: Lawn Makeovers

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Do you really need all that grass?

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Roots and Shoots: ’Tis the Season for … Root Vegetables

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Still time for one more planting

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Roots and Shoots: Pests in Native Trees

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Early detection is key to survival

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Roots and Shoots: It’s High Summer. How Are Your Plants?

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Wilting, covered in blooms, dying, being eaten by bugs?

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Roots and Shoots: Build a Rain Garden, Save a Lake

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County closes some beaches for swimming due to algal blooms

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Roots and Shoots: Call to Arms — Fight the Invaders!

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Citizen science a key tool in species control

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Roots and Shoots: Adopt a Ladybug

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Cornell project reestablishing dwindling natives

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Roots and Shoots: You Say Apple, I Say Crabapple

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Help with identifying a fruit tree

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Roots and Shoots: Start With a Box (Not Too Big), Add a Grid

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Square foot gardening

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Roots and Shoots: Reader Q and A

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan May 11, 2016September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Busy people gardening; the best berry bushes

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Roots and Shoots: Shady Spot?

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There’s a native plant for that

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Roots and Shoots: What’s a Good Plant?

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The ones pollinators love, but deer hate

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Roots and Shoots: A Garden with a View

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan March 27, 2016September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Cold Spring community garden grows fast

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Roots and Shoots: Spring Fever

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan March 16, 2016July 10, 2020 Why you can trust The Current

Gardeners are oh-so-ready

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Roots and Shoots: Go Find Your Shears

Avatar photo by Pamela Doan March 2, 2016September 29, 2019 Why you can trust The Current

Pruning now will bring spring and summer results

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