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Content Licensing
Content Leads to Commerce. We realize that being thanked isn't enough. Savvy online commerce and community require content/commerce integration. Content stimulates interest in your products. When you help your ... [... more]
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Advertising
The National Gardening Association announces 2005 advertising rates for Garden.org. Both our award-winning Web site and popular e-mail newsletters are highly targeted, interactive media vehicles reaching the nation's ... [... more]
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Custom Publishing
With more than 30 years of gardening publishing experience, we know a little about what gardeners want. NGA owns one of the largest content databases and is continually developing new publications and programs. The ... [... more]
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Powdery Mildew
This fungus disease occurs all over the North America and infects a wide variety of plants, including beans, cucurbits, lettuce, and peas. A powdery white growth covers the upper surface of leaves, which eventually ... [... more]
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Late Blight
Fertilize judiciously, as excess nitrogen favors the disease. Avoid overhead watering. Eliminate infected plants with a flame weeder to prevent further spread of the disease. After potato vines die at the end of the ... [... more]
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Phytophthora Fruit Rot
This fungal disease affects all cucurbits, especially winter squash and pumpkins. It is most common in humid areas of North America. Fruit in contact with soil are especially susceptible. The infection begins as a ... [... more]
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Corn Smut
This fungus disease occurs on corn over most of the United States. It can infect any aboveground part of the plant, causing galls that are white and spongy when young, which later become gray-brown and filled with ... [... more]
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Early Blight
Plant in well-drained soil where air circulation is good. Rotate crops and destroy any volunteer potato or tomato plants. Don't wet foliage when watering. Amend soil with compost, and fertilize plants judiciously to ... [... more]
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Downy Mildew
Various types of downy mildew fungi cause disease in a number of crops across North America. Irregular brown or yellow spots develop on the upper leaf surface; the lower leaf surface beneath these spots is covered ... [... more]
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Snakes
Although popular lore suggests snakes should be feared or exterminated, relatively few are poisonous and they generally avoid humans. Besides, they can be the gardener's friend, as various snakes prey upon rodents ... [... more]
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White Mold
This fungal disease occurs all over North America and can attack a wide variety of plants such as beans, lettuce, and members of the cabbage family. Symptoms on beans begin as water-soaked spots on blossoms, stems, ... [... more]
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Blossom End Rot
Blossom End Rot (BER) is a physiological disorder of tomatoes, peppers, and cucurbits caused by a calcium imbalance within the plant. Fluctuations in soil moisture, excessively wet or dry soil, excessive nitrogen ... [... more]
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