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- A Beginner's Guide to Botanical Names on Seed PacketsThe Latin on a seed packet is not there to confuse you. How botanical names are built, what the words tell you, and why they matter.Gardening Basics
- A Beginner's Guide to Vegetable Plant FamiliesTomatoes and potatoes are siblings, cabbage and rocket are cousins. Knowing the families makes crop rotation, pest control and seed savin...Crop Cycling
- Annuals, Perennials and Biennials: Plant Life Cycles ExplainedWhether a plant lives for a season, two years or decades changes how you sow it, where you put it and what to expect. The three life cycl...Cultivar Selection
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- Growing from Seed with Kids: Why It Works and Where to StartBig seeds, fast results and a few safety habits. How to get children growing from seed, which seeds to start with and what to keep out of...Gardening Basics
- Frost hardy or frost tender: how cold is too cold for each cropHardy, half hardy and tender describe how a plant copes with freezing, not with cold in general. Here is what each group tolerates, why a...Climate Zones