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STORY ANGLES - Practical Gardening Tips: Focuses on actionable advice for plant care, pruning, and seasonal gardening tasks. - Seasonal Relevance: Highlights gardening activities tied to specific times of the year (e.g., spring planning, winter care).
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 24
- Latest publication
- Sep 25, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Edmonton Journal
- Top 100K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 3, 2026
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Growing Things: Why are my apples dropping prematurely (opens the original)
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We independently select everything we recommend. Buying through us may earn us a commission, which supports our work. Q: I have a 30-year Yellow Transparent apple tree in my yard that keeps dropping its apples before they ripen. Any suggestions as to why, and is there a solution? A: There may be a few reasons for the premature fruit drop. Waterlogged soil and root stress are possible reasons. Record-breaking summer rainfall and frequent storms saturate the soil. When ground stays waterlogged, ro
Growing Things: Why are my apples dropping prematurely (opens the original)
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We independently select everything we recommend. Buying through us may earn us a commission, which supports our work. Q: I have a 30-year Yellow Transparent apple tree in my yard that keeps dropping its apples before they ripen. Any suggestions as to why, and is there a solution? A: There may be a few reasons for the premature fruit drop. Waterlogged soil and root stress are possible reasons. Record-breaking summer rainfall and frequent storms saturate the soil. When ground stays waterlogged, ro
Growing Things: What do potato flowers mean? And how do I save my rhubarb? (opens the original)
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We independently select everything we recommend. Buying through us may earn us a commission, which supports our work. Q: Never miss your columns, and thank you for all your great advice. I have a question about my potatoes. When my potatoes were blooming, I have heard from neighbours that by removing the flowers you can increase the yield of the potatoes. Is this true? A: Thank you for your kind words. Removing the blooms to increase yield is, I’m afraid, an old wives’ tale. The potato tubers be
Growing Things: What do potato flowers mean? And how do I save my rhubarb? (opens the original)
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We independently select everything we recommend. Buying through us may earn us a commission, which supports our work. Q: Never miss your columns, and thank you for all your great advice. I have a question about my potatoes. When my potatoes were blooming, I have heard from neighbours that by removing the flowers you can increase the yield of the potatoes. Is this true? A: Thank you for your kind words. Removing the blooms to increase yield is, I’m afraid, an old wives’ tale. The potato tubers be
Growing Things: Should I cut back my perennials in the fall? And what can I plant now? (opens the original)
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We independently select everything we recommend. Buying through us may earn us a commission, which supports our work. Q: Really appreciate being able to ask our gardening questions and get a human response. My coneflowers, black-eyed Susans and ornamental grasses are looking rather untidy now that they have finished flowering. Should I cut them all back before winter? A: I’ll take that human comment as a compliment, so thank you. My opinion on cutting those perennials back is that I often recomm
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