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Gardening Tips


BNAN is happy to provide Gardening Tips as a guide for beginners and a refresher for experienced community gardeners. Feel free to print and share this information with other community gardeners. For more information please contact BNAN Garden Educator, Erika Rumbley at erika@bostonnatural.org.

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Basic Garden Plot Maintenance

Compost Myths and Facts

Fall Cleanup Cuts Down on Next Years' Pests

You Can Dig It: Dividing Perennials

Water Conservation

Garden Critters: Friend or Foe

Good Gardening Practices for Urban Soils

Maintenance Activity Schedule

Ten Most Important Insects

What’s Buggin’ You?

Vegetables in Containers and Other Small Spaces (pdf. only)

Link to University of New Hampshire Extension Service for tips to avoid late blight in your garden!
Ensure your garden is not a source of this plant disease in 2010! Late blight destroys tomato crops. Late blight persists in "volunteer" potato tubers. See these important links from the Extension Service, University of New Hampshire, Durham: http://extension.unh.edu/agric/Media/Late-Blight2010/Late-Blight2010.htm http://extension.unh.edu/agric/Docs/Lateblightpreventionflyer.pdf