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How to Grow Blackberries: Planting, Pruning and Picking
Thornless erect varieties on a two-wire trellis, pruned on the floricane-primocane cycle. Planting, feeding, and the one pruning rule that decides your crop.
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How to Grow a Lemon Tree in a Pot, Anywhere
Lemons fruit year round and survive cold winters in a container, given light and the right watering. Why grafted trees matter, and what leaf drop is telling you.
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Can You Eat Crab Apples? Yes, and They Make Better Jelly
Crab apples are edible, sour, and unusually high in pectin — which is exactly why they set jelly no other fruit will. The one part to avoid, and which trees to pick.
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How to Grow Blueberries: It Is All About Soil pH
Blueberries need pH 4.5 to 5.5 and will slowly starve above it. Getting the soil right, why you want two varieties, and the pruning that keeps fruit coming.
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How to Grow Grapes: Prune Hard, and Prune in Winter
Grapes fruit on shoots from last year's wood, so timid pruning gives a huge vine and no crop. The two training systems, and why summer pruning is separate.
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How Do Pineapples Grow? On the Ground, One Per Plant
Pineapples do not grow on trees but on a low ground plant, one fruit per plant, from hundreds of flowers fused into one. How they grow, and how long it takes.
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How to Grow Strawberries (And Get Fruit the First Year)
Strawberries are easy to grow and easy to get wrong. Which of the three types to plant, why you pinch the first flowers, and how to keep a bed producing.
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