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Mountain Mint: North Carolina’s Most Underrated Native Border Plant (And What to Do About Fire Ants)

Fire ants have spread into portions or all of 81 North Carolina counties, and if you have ever…

By Jasmine Hughes · Jul 29

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If Your Zucchini Plants Keep Flowering Heavily But Never Set a Single Fruit in This Heat, a Morning Check May Be the Rescue Step You Are Missing

You walk out to your garden and count a dozen bright yellow flowers, yet not a single zucchini…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 28

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If your tomato plants keep dropping every flower in this heat, one overnight temperature swing is usually the reason

Watching every single tomato flower fall off a plant that otherwise looks lush and healthy is one of…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 28

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The Most Underrated North Carolina Native Vine That Feeds Birds All Winter When Nothing Else Is Left

Most North Carolina yards go quiet in winter, with bare branches and empty feeders replacing the busy activity…

By Jasmine Hughes · Jul 28

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If your tomatoes rot on the bottom while the plants look fine, the trouble usually starts underground

You walk out to check your tomato plants, and everything looks great above ground – full green leaves,…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 28

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If your zucchini keeps rotting at the tip while still small in this heat, one watering swing is usually behind it

Watching a tiny zucchini turn soft and brown at the tip before it ever reaches picking size is…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 28

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If your pepper plants keep growing tall and bushy but drop every blossom in this heat, one feeding habit is usually behind it

A pepper plant that shoots up tall and leafy while losing every flower can feel like a mystery…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 28

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Mulberries and Chickasaw Plums Are North Carolina Natives Almost Nobody Grows but Every Yard Should Have

Two fruit-bearing North Carolina natives deserve a closer look from anyone who wants edible harvests and real wildlife…

By Jasmine Hughes · Jul 28

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If your pepper leaves keep curling upward and thickening in this heat, one watering swing is usually behind it

Curled or cupped leaves on a pepper plant can send any gardener into a panic, especially when temperatures…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 28

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If your bell peppers keep sunburning with pale sunken patches in this heat, one pruning habit may be behind it

Walking out to your pepper patch and finding pale, leathery patches on fruit you have been watching for…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 28

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What Carpenter Bees Around Your North Carolina Porch Are Really Telling You Before You Grab the Spray Can

Spotting a big, buzzing bee hovering around your porch railing can send most homeowners straight for the nearest…

By Jasmine Hughes · Jul 28

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If your cucumbers keep drying out and wilting by afternoon in this heat, the container is usually the real culprit

Watching your cucumber plant slump by two in the afternoon is genuinely alarming, especially when you feel like…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 28

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If your cucumber vines stay small and slow in this heat, one thing worked into the soil gets them producing

Watching cucumber vines sit stubbornly small while summer heat cranks up is genuinely frustrating, especially when you were…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 28

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If your cucumbers turn yellow and bloated on the vine in this heat, one harvest habit is usually behind it

Finding a fat yellow cucumber hiding under the leaves can feel like something went wrong overnight, and during…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 28

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Here’s What a Box Turtle Wandering Into Your North Carolina Garden Beds Is Really Telling You

Finding a box turtle slowly crossing your garden beds is one of those moments that makes you stop…

By Jasmine Hughes · Jul 28

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If your tomato plants keep growing lush and leafy but set almost no fruit in this heat, one feeding habit is usually behind it

Your tomato plant looks incredible from a distance – thick stems, dark green leaves, and more foliage than…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 28

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The North Carolina Plants Being Banned in More Counties Before They Take Over Native Landscapes

Some plants look pretty in the garden but turn into bullies once they escape into the wild. Across…

By Jasmine Hughes · Jul 28

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If your cucumbers taste bitter at harvest, one growing-season stress usually turns them that way

Biting into a homegrown cucumber and getting a mouthful of bitterness is one of summer’s most common garden…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 28

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If your cucumber leaves keep scorching brown at the edges in this heat, the trouble usually starts underground

Crispy brown edges on cucumber leaves are one of the most alarming things a home gardener can spot…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 28

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Here’s What It Really Means When Anoles Suddenly Vanish From Your North Carolina Garden

One morning you notice the usual flicker of green on the fence post is gone, and a week…

By Jasmine Hughes · Jul 28

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Tomato Leaves Turning Yellow From the Bottom Up: How to Read the Pattern and Find the Real Cause

Spotting yellow leaves creeping up your tomato plant from the bottom is enough to make any gardener nervous,…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 28

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If your zucchini keeps flowering heavily but never sets fruit in this heat, the blossoms are your first diagnostic clue

Your zucchini plant is covered in bright yellow blossoms every morning, yet not a single fruit is forming.…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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Why North Carolina Gardeners Keep Lemongrass by the Patio (And What Actually Controls Mosquitoes)

Lemongrass has a way of earning permanent real estate near a North Carolina patio once a gardener tries…

By Jasmine Hughes · Jul 27

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If your cucumbers keep growing stubby and misshapen in this heat, the trouble usually starts at the flowers

You worked hard to get those cucumber vines going, and now they’re sprawling and green – but the…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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If Your Cucumber Leaves Are Yellowing Between the Veins, Magnesium Is Worth Investigating – But It Is Not the Only Answer

Yellow patches spreading between the veins of your cucumber leaves while the veins themselves stay green is one…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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If your cucumber plants suddenly wilt and collapse in this heat even when the soil is wet, one hidden invader is usually behind it

Watching a cucumber plant go limp on a hot afternoon is alarming enough, but finding wet soil beneath…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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If your squash leaves turn silvery-white in this heat, the trouble usually starts long before you spot mildew

Spotting white or silvery patches on your squash leaves during a heat wave can send any gardener straight…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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If your tomatoes crack open right after you water in this heat, one watering habit is usually behind it

Reaching into your tomato plants on a hot afternoon and finding split fruit is one of the most…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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If your tomatoes keep hanging green and won’t turn red in this heat, the trouble usually starts with how you’re feeding them

Walking out to the garden and finding a plant loaded with green tomatoes that refuse to change color…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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Your Cucumber Vines Are Not Stalling From Hunger – Here Is What to Check First

Cucumber vines can go from pumping out fruit to barely setting any in a matter of days once…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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The Front Yard Trees That Beat Crape Myrtle for North Carolina Homes All Year Round

Crape myrtle shows up in almost every North Carolina front yard, but it fades fast once the flowers…

By Jasmine Hughes · Jul 27

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If your tomato leaves are rolling up tight in this heat, the trouble usually starts long before you notice it

Watching your tomato plant curl its leaves into tight green tubes on a scorching afternoon is enough to…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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If your cucumber vines stall out in this heat, one thing in the watering can gets them climbing again

Watching your cucumber vines sit motionless in midsummer heat is genuinely frustrating, especially when you expected a surge…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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This Underrated North Carolina Native Shrub Blooms All Summer and Shrugs Off Dry Spells

Most nursery shelves pass right over St. Andrew’s cross, a compact native shrub that quietly flowers through much…

By Jasmine Hughes · Jul 27

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If your watermelons keep rotting at the blossom end in this heat, the trouble usually starts in the soil before the fruit even sets

Finding a dark, sunken spot on the bottom of your watermelon is genuinely discouraging, especially when the vines…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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Plant Butterfly Weed in This Narrow North Carolina Window or You Wait Another Whole Year

Butterfly weed is one of those plants that earns its place in a North Carolina yard quickly, drawing…

By Jasmine Hughes · Jul 27

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If your cantaloupe vines keep sprawling but never setting fruit in this heat, the trouble usually starts at the flowers

Watching a cantaloupe vine take over your garden bed while producing zero melons is one of the more…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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If your pepper plants keep growing bushy but never setting fruit in this heat, one overnight detail is usually behind it

Your pepper plant looks great from the outside, full of leaves and loaded with flowers, but every blossom…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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Why More North Carolina Homeowners Are Putting Up Owl Houses for Free Pest Control

Owls have lived in North Carolina’s woodlands, fields, and suburban neighborhoods long before anyone thought to build them…

By Jasmine Hughes · Jul 27

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If your eggplants keep dropping their blossoms in this heat, the trouble usually starts at the flowers

Watching your eggplant drop flower after flower without a single fruit forming is one of the more frustrating…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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If your carrots keep growing forked and split underground, the trouble usually starts in how you prepped the soil

Pull up a batch of carrots and you might find a tangle of forked, branched, or cracked roots…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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What It Really Means When a Fox Starts Passing Through Your North Carolina Backyard at Dusk

Spotting a fox slipping through your backyard as the sun goes down can feel alarming, but for most…

By Jasmine Hughes · Jul 27

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If your bean plants keep flowering but never fill their pods in this heat, the trouble usually starts at the blossoms

You water your beans faithfully, the vines look full and green, flowers keep popping open every morning, and…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 27

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If your zucchini keeps rotting at the tip in this heat, the trouble usually starts at the flower

Watching a zucchini shrivel and rot at the tip is one of the more discouraging sights in a…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 26

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If your pepper plants keep sunburning their fruit in this heat, the trouble usually starts with the leaves

That pale, papery patch on your pepper is frustrating, especially when the rest of the fruit looks perfectly…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 26

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If your tomato leaves keep curling upward in this heat, the trouble usually starts with how the plant handles stress

Curling tomato leaves during a heat wave can send a gardener straight to the garden center looking for…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 26

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If your squash plants keep collapsing overnight in this heat, one hidden stem invader is usually behind it

Walking out to your garden and finding a squash plant completely collapsed is one of the more unsettling…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 26

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If your tomato plants split their fruit right after this heat, the trouble usually starts with how you water

Picking a tomato only to find it split open along the stem is one of summer’s most discouraging…

By Ethan Brooks · Jul 26

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What It Really Means When a Stink Bug Turns Up Inside Your North Carolina Home This Summer

Spotting a stink bug on your curtain can send your mind racing toward worst-case scenarios, but the reality…

By Jasmine Hughes · Jul 26

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If your cucumber leaves keep turning yellow from the bottom up in this heat, one feeding habit is usually behind it

Mountain Mint: North Carolina’s Most Underrated Native Border Plant (And What to Do About Fire Ants)

If Your Zucchini Plants Keep Flowering Heavily But Never Set a Single Fruit in This Heat, a Morning Check May Be the Rescue Step You Are Missing

If your tomato plants keep dropping every flower in this heat, one overnight temperature swing is usually the reason

The Most Underrated North Carolina Native Vine That Feeds Birds All Winter When Nothing Else Is Left

If your tomatoes rot on the bottom while the plants look fine, the trouble usually starts underground

If your zucchini keeps rotting at the tip while still small in this heat, one watering swing is usually behind it

If your pepper plants keep growing tall and bushy but drop every blossom in this heat, one feeding habit is usually behind it

Mulberries and Chickasaw Plums Are North Carolina Natives Almost Nobody Grows but Every Yard Should Have

If your pepper leaves keep curling upward and thickening in this heat, one watering swing is usually behind it

If your bell peppers keep sunburning with pale sunken patches in this heat, one pruning habit may be behind it

What Carpenter Bees Around Your North Carolina Porch Are Really Telling You Before You Grab the Spray Can

If your cucumbers keep drying out and wilting by afternoon in this heat, the container is usually the real culprit

If your cucumber vines stay small and slow in this heat, one thing worked into the soil gets them producing

If your cucumbers turn yellow and bloated on the vine in this heat, one harvest habit is usually behind it

Here’s What a Box Turtle Wandering Into Your North Carolina Garden Beds Is Really Telling You

If your tomato plants keep growing lush and leafy but set almost no fruit in this heat, one feeding habit is usually behind it

The North Carolina Plants Being Banned in More Counties Before They Take Over Native Landscapes

If your cucumbers taste bitter at harvest, one growing-season stress usually turns them that way

If your cucumber leaves keep scorching brown at the edges in this heat, the trouble usually starts underground

Here’s What It Really Means When Anoles Suddenly Vanish From Your North Carolina Garden

Tomato Leaves Turning Yellow From the Bottom Up: How to Read the Pattern and Find the Real Cause

If your zucchini keeps flowering heavily but never sets fruit in this heat, the blossoms are your first diagnostic clue

Why North Carolina Gardeners Keep Lemongrass by the Patio (And What Actually Controls Mosquitoes)

If your cucumbers keep growing stubby and misshapen in this heat, the trouble usually starts at the flowers

If Your Cucumber Leaves Are Yellowing Between the Veins, Magnesium Is Worth Investigating – But It Is Not the Only Answer

If your cucumber plants suddenly wilt and collapse in this heat even when the soil is wet, one hidden invader is usually behind it

If your squash leaves turn silvery-white in this heat, the trouble usually starts long before you spot mildew

If your tomatoes crack open right after you water in this heat, one watering habit is usually behind it

If your tomatoes keep hanging green and won’t turn red in this heat, the trouble usually starts with how you’re feeding them

Your Cucumber Vines Are Not Stalling From Hunger – Here Is What to Check First

The Front Yard Trees That Beat Crape Myrtle for North Carolina Homes All Year Round

If your tomato leaves are rolling up tight in this heat, the trouble usually starts long before you notice it

If your cucumber vines stall out in this heat, one thing in the watering can gets them climbing again

This Underrated North Carolina Native Shrub Blooms All Summer and Shrugs Off Dry Spells

If your watermelons keep rotting at the blossom end in this heat, the trouble usually starts in the soil before the fruit even sets

Plant Butterfly Weed in This Narrow North Carolina Window or You Wait Another Whole Year

If your cantaloupe vines keep sprawling but never setting fruit in this heat, the trouble usually starts at the flowers

If your pepper plants keep growing bushy but never setting fruit in this heat, one overnight detail is usually behind it

Why More North Carolina Homeowners Are Putting Up Owl Houses for Free Pest Control

If your eggplants keep dropping their blossoms in this heat, the trouble usually starts at the flowers

If your carrots keep growing forked and split underground, the trouble usually starts in how you prepped the soil

What It Really Means When a Fox Starts Passing Through Your North Carolina Backyard at Dusk

If your bean plants keep flowering but never fill their pods in this heat, the trouble usually starts at the blossoms

If your zucchini keeps rotting at the tip in this heat, the trouble usually starts at the flower

If your pepper plants keep sunburning their fruit in this heat, the trouble usually starts with the leaves

If your tomato leaves keep curling upward in this heat, the trouble usually starts with how the plant handles stress

If your squash plants keep collapsing overnight in this heat, one hidden stem invader is usually behind it

If your tomato plants split their fruit right after this heat, the trouble usually starts with how you water

What It Really Means When a Stink Bug Turns Up Inside Your North Carolina Home This Summer