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The Fruits and Nuts You Can Still Harvest This Month

November 26, 2025 by Brandon Marcus Leave a Comment

There Are Fruits and Nuts You Can Still Harvest This Month

If you’ve ever walked into your yard or local orchard during the later part of the season and assumed everything juicy, crunchy, or delicious was already gone, you’re in for a treat. There’s something thrilling about the late-month harvest—the sense that you’re rescuing treasures that most people forgot were still out there. While others pack…

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Filed Under: garden tips Tagged With: apples, autumn, Autumn garden tips, chestnuts, citrus, citrus trees, cranberries, fall, fall harvest, fruits, fruits and nuts, harvest, harvesting fruits, harvesting nuts, november, nuts, pears, pecans, persimmons, quince, walnuts

How to Keep Your Citrus Trees Alive When November Frost Hits Hard

November 7, 2025 by Brandon Marcus Leave a Comment

Keep Your Citrus Trees Alive When November Frost Hits Hard

The first frost of November can feel like a sneak attack. One moment your citrus trees are soaking up the last golden touches of fall sunshine, and the next they’re shivering under a layer of icy white. Citrus trees may look tough, vibrant, and sun-loving, but when temperatures dip, they suddenly become the horticultural equivalent…

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What Are the Different Ways to Germinate Citrus Seeds?

August 17, 2020 by Steph Coelho Leave a Comment

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I always have lemons in my fridge. The bright acidic quality of lemon juice adds a fantastic oomph to food that you just can’t get with other kinds of acids. Lemon also pairs well with pasta, chicken, and roasted veggies. I also often have limes on hand because they’re perfect for brightening up Mexican and Thai…

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You’re Still Watering Like It’s July — Your Fall Garden Doesn’t Need It

That automatic watering schedule that kept your tomatoes alive through July may be doing too much work by late September. Cooler days, longer nights, weaker sunlight, and seasonal rain can all change how quickly moisture disappears from garden soil, yet it’s easy to keep watering simply because that’s what you’ve done all summer. Too much…

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We Planted an Old Sweet Potato Instead of Throwing It Away — Here’s What Grew

That wrinkled sweet potato sitting in the back of the pantry may look like compost-bin material, especially once little shoots start poking through the skin. But those sprouts are also evidence that the sweet potato is still capable of producing a living plant, so we decided to see what would happen if we planted one…

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Can You Regrow Green Onions Forever? We Put the Viral Hack to the Test

Buy a bunch of green onions once, stick the white ends in a glass of water, and supposedly you’ll never have to buy green onions again. It’s one of those viral gardening hacks that sounds almost too perfect for anyone trying to trim a few dollars from the grocery bill. Unlike plenty of internet tricks,…

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Those Dead Flower Stems Look Ugly — Here’s Why Gardeners Are Leaving Them Until Spring

Once frost turns your flower garden brown, the instinct is understandable: grab the pruners, cut everything to the ground, bag the debris, and make the yard look tidy again. But what looks like a collection of dead stems to you may look very different to a bee, butterfly, bird, or other creature preparing for winter….

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