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Garden: Beetlemania

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by someone who knows best; one of the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, Brian Cruey offers tips on how to get rid of a pernicious

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Garden: Stop Moaning, Start Mowing

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by someone who knows best; one of the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, Brian Cruey offers tips on how best to do that most basic

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Garden: Red, White, and Blueberries

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by someone who know best, one of the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, Brian Cruey offers tips on how to protect that otherwise hearty blueberry

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Garden: Slugging It Out

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by the ones who know best, the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, Brian Cruey of the BBG ponders the icky issue of dealing with that

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Garden: Weed Wonderings

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by the people who know best, the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, Brian Cruey of the BBG ponders the thorny process of how to weed.

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Garden: A Fungus Among Us

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back- and front-yard toiler, proffered by the people who know best, the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, Brian Cruey of the BBG ponders the sticky situation of treating mildew on

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Garden: Rejuvenating Lilacs

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back and front-yard toiler, proffered by the people who know best, the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, they ponder the proper care of lilacs. Sometimes in the garden, we don’

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Garden: Losing Impatiens

The following is a regular column that addresses basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back and front-yard toiler, proffered by the people who know best, the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, they ponder the impatiens dilemma. Impatiens are an annual favorite: easy to grow,

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Garden: The Lady In Red

The following is the fourth part of a  column for Rural Intelligence that seeks to address basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back and front-yard toiler, proffered by the people who know best, the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. This week, we’re all ticked off

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Garden: The Dirt On Soil

The following is the second part of a new column for Rural Intelligence, a weekly Q&A that seeks to address basic issues facing the ever-inquisitive back and front-yard toiler. Both questions and answers are provided by the people who know best, the fertile master gardeners from the Berkshire

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Garden: Thank You, Very Mulch

The following is the first part of a new column for Rural Intelligence that seeks to answer basic questions for the ever-inquisitive back and front yard toiler, and is provided by the people who know best, the master gardeners at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. The subject this week

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Margaret Roach Delivers The Backyard Parables

Sequestered on a hillside in Copake, New York, Margaret Roach — former editorial director of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and, before that, longtime staffer on the New York Times and Newsday — tends her land as well as her website, A Way to Garden, which many, from neophyte to expert, proclaim to

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