1. How do I keep squash bugs from destroying my vegetable plants? Updated: January 24, 2012
2. What causes radish roots to crack? Updated: January 24, 2012
3. Why would the foliage of my potato plants be distorted, rolled, and not thrifty? Updated: January 24, 2012
4. How are cantaloupes pollinated? Updated: January 22, 2012
5. It okay to eat the yellow fruit on my Ichiban eggplants? The fruit set low on the plant, grew large and stayed yellow. Updated: January 18, 2012
6. Do sweet potatoes require a specific type of soil? Updated: January 18, 2012
7. What causes cabbage heads to be loose and puffy, rather than firm and hard? Updated: January 12, 2012
8. What is the "yard-long" bean? Updated: January 12, 2012
9. We have large zucchini plants that develop flowers, but they bloom, close up and fall off, without producing fruit. Any suggestions? Updated: November 25, 2011
10. Sometimes my radishes have a hot, bitter flavor. What is the problem? Updated: November 20, 2011
11. Is there a way to tell the difference between field corn and sweet corn by just looking at the ear of corn? Updated: November 20, 2011
12. Why can't I grow tomatoes near my walnut tree? Updated: November 20, 2011
13. How do I get my carrots to taste sweet? Is there something I should be adding to the soil? Updated: November 20, 2011
14. What causes the foliage of my beans to turn yellow on top and form a brown, dusty material on the bottom? Updated: November 15, 2011
15. Should vegetables such as corn, cabbage, beets, and cucumbers be planted on top of an earth mound in a garden or on level ground? Updated: November 15, 2011
16. I planted sweet potatoes and they are still green. When can I dig them up? Updated: November 15, 2011
17. As of Aug. 1, our green pepper plants still do not have one blossom on them. Any advice or explanation? We usually have good luck. Updated: November 15, 2011
18. Can you grow potatoes in a 4- to 7-inch-thick layer of unmulched leaves? If so, how? Updated: November 15, 2011
19. Is a potato a root? Updated: November 14, 2011
20. I have a patch of 70- to 75-day carrots that never got properly thinned. With about three weeks to first frost, is it worth thinning them now? Updated: November 14, 2011
21. Should spinach be harvested by removing the outer, older leaves or by pulling the entire plant? Updated: November 07, 2011
22. Are the leaves of radish plants edible? Updated: November 07, 2011
23. I'm growing bulb onions in my garden and need ito know when to harvest and how to dry/prepare them for storage. Updated: November 07, 2011
24. Should I prune the sucker stems that grow off the main stalk of my tomato plants? Updated: November 07, 2011
25. When should parsley be seeded in my garden? Updated: November 07, 2011
26. I am resistant to using treated timbers for constructing my raised bed vegetable garden. Can I use untreated redwood? Updated: November 06, 2011
27. What is a good way to store seed left over from this year's garden? Updated: November 06, 2011
28. My eggplants were delicious early in the season, now, in late summer, the fruit is bitter and it has brown areas on it. What is the problem? Updated: November 04, 2011
29. What is meant when catalogs refer to "Super Sweet" varieties of sweet corn? Updated: November 04, 2011
30. Can you harvest more than one head of cauliflower from a cauliflower plant? Updated: November 04, 2011

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