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What to Plant This Month
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What to Plant This Month
Mid-summer is still fine for many warm-season crops and a second round of fast growers. Ask us what is ready in the plant yard.
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Gardening
Genuinely useful advice from a place that grows a serious tomato patch. We would rather help you grow a good tomato than sell you something you do not need.
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Starting a Fall Garden in Tennessee
Starting a Fall Garden in Tennessee
Late summer is the time to set up cool-season crops for fall.
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Keeping Deer and Critters Out of the Garden
Keeping Deer and Critters Out of the Garden
You grew it. Now everything else wants to eat it.
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Keeping Hanging Baskets Alive All Summer
Keeping Hanging Baskets Alive All Summer
Baskets dry out fast in the heat. Here's how to keep yours full and blooming.
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What to Do About Tomato Hornworms
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Watering Tomatoes in Hot Weather
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How and When to Use Calcium Nitrate
How and When to Use Calcium Nitrate
A common tomato additive — and when it actually earns its keep.
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What Blossom-End Rot Is
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Single-Leader Tomato Pruning
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How We Trellis a Large Tomato Patch
How We Trellis a Large Tomato Patch
What we do when it is more than a few plants in the backyard.
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Is It Too Late to Plant Tomatoes in Middle Tennessee?
Is It Too Late to Plant Tomatoes in Middle Tennessee?
The short answer is usually no — with a couple of honest caveats.
Read moreOur gardening advice draws on real experience in the Griffin’s patch. Anything that makes a technical claim is marked for expert horticultural review before launch. Tomato Club members hear about plant arrivals first.