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What Should You Do When Peaches Ripen All at Once?

August 14, 2026 by Brandon Marcus Leave a Comment

What Should You Do When Peaches Ripen All at Once?

Peaches have a spectacular talent for creating a very specific kind of gardening panic: producing a mountain of gorgeous fruit at exactly the same time. One afternoon, the tree looks ordinary, and a few days later, the branches seem to have joined a conspiracy against the household refrigerator. The good news is that an overflowing…

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That Half-Dead Clearance Plant Is $3 — How Do You Know If It Can Be Saved?

There is something dangerously tempting about the clearance rack at a garden center. A perennial that cost $15 in May is suddenly $3, its flowers are gone, half its leaves are brown, and the frugal gardener in you starts calculating how much money you could save if it survives. Sometimes that ugly little clearance plant…

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Can You Grow Grocery Store Garlic Instead of Buying Seed Garlic?

Standing in the produce aisle, it’s easy to wonder why you’d pay a premium for seed garlic when an ordinary bulb of garlic may cost only a dollar or two. After all, garlic isn’t normally grown from botanical seed—you break a bulb apart and plant individual cloves, which makes grocery store garlic look like an…

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Before You Buy Compost, Look at What’s Going in Your Trash

A bag of compost at the garden center looks like a gardening product, while the coffee grounds, vegetable peelings, cardboard, and fallen leaves leaving your house look like trash. Put those materials together correctly, however, and you have many of the ingredients needed to make homemade compost without repeatedly buying bags of soil amendment. The…

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Raking Every Leaf Out of Your Garden? You May Be Throwing Away Free Mulch

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