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Garden Help Desk: Edible flowers an easy addition to any garden

I saw some edible flowers at the farmers market last summer. I’d like to try growing edible flowers this year. Now that all my seed catalogs have arrived, can you recommend some good seed varieties that I can order? There are so many edible flower possibilities that you have probably ...

Garden Help Desk: Investigate these common problems to help boost garden yield

For the past two years, my garden has done very poorly. Plants have grown as big or well as in past years but have not produced much. The whole garden gets full sun. I started using 15-15-15 fertilizer three to four years ago and also built garden boxes at about the same time. When I made the ...

Garden Help Desk: Voles or grubs might explain potato damage

Can you tell me what caused these holes in potatoes? They weren't rotten but looked and felt like something had eaten them. This is how they came out of the ground. Voles may be the pest that helped themselves to your potatoes in the fall. Voles are small, sturdy-looking rodents. Larger than ...