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1. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · By Emily How, Horticulture Agent, NDSU Extension

   Dakota Gardener: The birds and the bees and the cucumbers (opens the original)

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   (Aug. 18, 2026) – Cucumbers are one of my favorite garden vegetables. I love picking them when they are 5-6 inches long and eating them plain or with a basic veggie dip (my favorite is published in the North Dakota State University Extension publication “Field to Fork: Cucumbers!”). But what do you do when your favorite garden vegetable starts dropping flowers? To answer this question, let’s have a little biology refresher. Cucumbers are in the cucurbit family, which also contains squash, waterm

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2. Article · Aug 4, 2026 · By Emily How, Horticulture Agent, NDSU Extension

   Dakota Gardener: The weed problem (opens the original)

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   Weeds are always a problem in the garden or an ornamental landscape. There are always more weeds than there is time to weed, and with the amount of rain that we have received as of late, they are growing, well, like weeds. As a solution to the weed problem, many gardeners will turn to weed barriers to prevent them from emerging. There are many types of weed barriers: landscape fabric (woven and nonwoven), mulch and cardboard, just to name the most common. Of these, landscape fabric has the worst

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