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If Your Cucumber Fruits Turn Bitter and Puckered at the Stem End in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

Biting into a cucumber you grew yourself only to get a mouthful of bitterness is one of late…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 15

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If Your Cucumber Vines Wilt at Midday Even With Wet Soil in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

Watching a cucumber vine flop over at noon when the soil still feels damp is one of the…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 15

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If Your Bean Plants Flower Heavily but the Pods Stay Flat and Empty in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

You walk out to your garden expecting a bumper crop and instead find a wall of pretty white…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 15

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What It Really Means When Box Turtles Keep Showing Up in Your North Carolina Garden Beds This Summer

Spotting a box turtle tucked into your garden bed once is a surprise. Seeing one there again and…

By Jasmine Hughes · Aug 15

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If Your Okra Plants Grow Tall but the Pods Turn Woody and Tough in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

Okra is one of the South’s most reliable summer crops, but August has a way of turning a…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 15

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What It Really Means When Fire Ant Mounds Keep Popping Up in Your North Carolina Garden Beds This Summer

Finding a fresh dirt mound in your garden bed is one of those summer surprises that can stop…

By Jasmine Hughes · Aug 15

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If Your Eggplants Bloom All Summer but the Flowers Keep Dropping in Late Heat, Here Is Why

Watching your eggplant push out flower after flower all summer, only to see them fall off before a…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 14

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If Your Pepper Plants Stop Setting Fruit in Late-Summer Heat, One Overnight Problem Is Usually Behind It

Your pepper plants look healthy, the flowers keep coming, and yet nothing is turning into actual peppers. That…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 14

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What It Really Means When Katydids Start Taking Over Your North Carolina Yard This Late Summer

Step outside on a warm North Carolina night in late summer and you might feel like the trees…

By Jasmine Hughes · Aug 14

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If Your Squash Plants Suddenly Wilt and Collapse in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

Walking out to your garden and finding a squash plant that looked fine yesterday now drooping flat on…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 14

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If Your Tomato Plants Wilt Every Afternoon in Late-Summer Heat but Perk Up by Morning, Here Is Why

Watching your tomato plants droop in the afternoon heat can send any gardener into a panic, but that…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 14

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If Your Zucchini Plants Turn Out All Flowers and No Fruit in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

Staring at a zucchini plant loaded with bright yellow flowers and still no squash on the vine is…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 14

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What It Really Means When Carpenter Bees Are Hovering Around Your North Carolina Porch This Summer

Spotting large bees circling your porch on a hot North Carolina afternoon can feel alarming, especially when you…

By Jasmine Hughes · Aug 14

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If Your Cucumber Leaves Turn Yellow From the Bottom Up in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

Yellow leaves creeping up from the bottom of your cucumber plant are easy to misread, especially when the…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 14

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If Your Pepper Plants Suddenly Drop Their Leaves in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

Watching your pepper plants shed leaves during a scorching August heatwave is alarming, and your first instinct might…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 14

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What It Really Means When Wolf Spiders Start Showing Up Around Your North Carolina Yard This Late Summer

Spotting a large, fast-moving spider bolting across your patio or disappearing under the mulch can stop you cold,…

By Jasmine Hughes · Aug 14

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If Your Tomato Plants Grow Tall and Leafy but Set Almost No Fruit in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

Your tomato plants look fantastic from a distance, green and full and climbing toward the sun, yet the…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 14

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If Your Cucumber Plants Stop Producing New Fruit in Late-Summer Heat, One Pollination Problem Is Usually Behind It

Your cucumber vines are loaded with flowers, but the fruit just isn’t showing up. Before you pull the…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 14

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The Most Underrated North Carolina Native Vine That Crowds Out Weeds Along Fences Better Than English Ivy

English ivy looked like a smart fence solution until it started crawling into the woods, up the trees,…

By Jasmine Hughes · Aug 14

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If Your Hydrangeas Grow Big Leaves but No Flowers Right Now, One Pruning Mistake Is Usually Behind It

Staring at a hydrangea covered in lush green leaves but not a single bloom can be genuinely frustrating,…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 14

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What It Really Means When A Fox Keeps Showing Up In Your North Carolina Yard This Summer

Spotting a fox in your yard once is a surprise, but seeing one again and again starts to…

By Jasmine Hughes · Aug 14

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If Your Cucumber Vines Suddenly Wilt Overnight in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

Walking out to your garden and finding a cucumber vine that was thriving just yesterday lying flat and…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 14

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What It Really Means When Stink Bugs Start Showing Up Inside Your North Carolina Home This Summer

Spotting a stink bug crawling across your living room wall can be unsettling, especially when one turns into…

By Jasmine Hughes · Aug 14

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If Your Cucumber Leaves Curl Upward and Feel Leathery in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

Walking out to your cucumber patch on a scorching August morning to find the leaves cupped upward and…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 14

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If Your Zucchini Fruit Rots at the Blossom End in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

Few things are more discouraging than watching a zucchini you have been tending for weeks turn brown and…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 14

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If Your Pepper Flowers Drop Off Before Setting Fruit in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

Watching a pepper plant covered in blooms but never producing a single fruit is one of the most…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 14

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If Your Tomato Skins Crack in Rings Around the Top During Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

Pulling back a tomato plant’s leaves to find a ring of cracks circling the stem end is one…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 13

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If Your Tomato Fruit Splits Open After a Late-Summer Watering Swing, Here Is Why

Few things sting a gardener more than walking out after a summer storm to find ripe tomatoes split…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 13

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The Most Underrated North Carolina Native Shrub Behind the Mosquito-Repellent Story on a Woodland Edge

A story has been circulating among gardeners that a North Carolina native shrub can actually block mosquitoes along…

By Jasmine Hughes · Aug 13

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Zucchini Leaves Turning Silvery or Mottled? Check for These Causes Before You Spray

Seeing silvery or mottled patches on your zucchini leaves can send a gardener straight to the pesticide shelf,…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 13

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If Your Potted Tomatoes Stay Small and Dry Out by Afternoon, Cramped Pots and Late Watering Are Usually Behind It

Watching your container tomatoes wilt by noon and produce tiny, stalled fruit is one of the more frustrating…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 13

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The Most Underrated North Carolina Native Shrub That Feeds Birds Right When Everything Else Has Stopped Fruiting This Fall

Every fall, North Carolina yards go through a quiet shift when many summer fruits disappear and birds start…

By Jasmine Hughes · Aug 13

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If Your Squash Leaves Show a White Powdery Coating in Late-Summer Heat, Powdery Mildew Is Usually Behind It

Spotting a white, flour-like coating spreading across your squash leaves can be alarming, especially when the plants were…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 13

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Potted Pepper Plants Staying Small? Cramped Roots May Be One Reason – But Check These Signs First

Peppers growing in containers can be surprisingly sensitive to the space their roots have to work with, and…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 13

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What It Really Means When Hawks Keep Circling Over Your North Carolina Yard This Summer

Spotting a hawk gliding in slow circles above your backyard is one of those sights that stops you…

By Jasmine Hughes · Aug 13

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If Your Cucumber Fruit Grows Fat at One End and Pinches at the Other in Late-Summer Heat, Uneven Pollination Is Usually Behind It

Pull a cucumber off the vine and find one end swollen and the other end narrow and pinched,…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 13

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The Most Underrated North Carolina Native Grass That Crowds Out Weeds Along Your Wooded Edge Better Than Mulch

Every spring, the same story plays out along the shaded edge where your lawn meets the trees: the…

By Jasmine Hughes · Aug 13

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If Your Pepper Leaves Turn Yellow and Drop From the Bottom Up in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

Watching your pepper plant shed its lower leaves one by one in the August heat is genuinely unsettling,…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 13

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If Your Tomato Leaves Show Yellow Blotches and Brown Patches in Late-Summer Heat, Early Blight Is Usually Behind It

Spotting yellow blotches and brown patches on your tomato leaves in the middle of summer is enough to…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 13

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If Your Cucumber Plants Suddenly Wilt and Collapse in Late-Summer Heat, Squash Vine Borers Are One Possibility Worth Confirming

Few things are more disheartening than walking out to your garden and finding a cucumber vine that was…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 13

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A Cucumber Vine That Wilts and Keeps Declining May Have Bacterial Wilt – Especially When Cucumber Beetles Are Present

Few things are more discouraging than walking out to a thriving cucumber patch and finding a vine flat…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 13

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If Your Pepper Flowers Keep Dropping Off Before They Set Fruit in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

Few things are more frustrating in the summer garden than a pepper plant loaded with blooms that never…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 13

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If Your Cucumber Leaves Develop Yellow Halos and Angular Brown Spots in Late-Summer Heat, Bacterial Leaf Spot Is Usually Behind It

Spotting yellow halos and angular brown patches on your cucumber leaves can feel alarming, especially when your plants…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 13

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If Your Zucchini Stops Setting Fruit and the Tiny Ones Shrivel in Late-Summer Heat, Poor Pollination Is Usually Behind It

Walking out to your zucchini patch and finding a row of shriveled, brown baby squash is one of…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 13

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What It Really Means When A Fox Starts Showing Up In Your North Carolina Yard This Summer

Spotting a fox trotting through your yard on a summer morning can stop you in your tracks. Most…

By Jasmine Hughes · Aug 13

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If Your Cucumber Leaves Turn Bronze and Stippled in Late-Summer Heat, Spider Mites Are Usually Behind It

Walking out to your cucumber patch one August morning to find the leaves looking dull, dusty, and covered…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 13

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What It Really Means When Brown, Shield-Shaped Stink Bugs Start Sneaking Into Your North Carolina Home in Late Summer and Early Fall

Around late August, many North Carolina homeowners start noticing brown, shield-shaped bugs gathering on sunny walls, slipping under…

By Jasmine Hughes · Aug 13

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If Your Tomato Fruit Shows Sunken Black Patches on the Bottom in Late-Summer Heat, Blossom End Rot Is Usually Behind It

Pulling back a tomato leaf to find a dark, sunken patch on the bottom of your fruit is…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 12

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Tiny Zucchini Rotting at the Tip? Here Is How to Tell What Is Really Going On

Watching a tiny zucchini turn brown and mushy at the tip before it ever reaches your kitchen is…

By Ethan Brooks · Aug 12

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If Your Tomato Plants Split Their Ripening Fruit Right on the Vine in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

If Your Cucumber Fruits Turn Bitter and Puckered at the Stem End in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

If Your Cucumber Vines Wilt at Midday Even With Wet Soil in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

If Your Bean Plants Flower Heavily but the Pods Stay Flat and Empty in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

What It Really Means When Box Turtles Keep Showing Up in Your North Carolina Garden Beds This Summer

If Your Okra Plants Grow Tall but the Pods Turn Woody and Tough in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

What It Really Means When Fire Ant Mounds Keep Popping Up in Your North Carolina Garden Beds This Summer

If Your Eggplants Bloom All Summer but the Flowers Keep Dropping in Late Heat, Here Is Why

If Your Pepper Plants Stop Setting Fruit in Late-Summer Heat, One Overnight Problem Is Usually Behind It

What It Really Means When Katydids Start Taking Over Your North Carolina Yard This Late Summer

If Your Squash Plants Suddenly Wilt and Collapse in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

If Your Tomato Plants Wilt Every Afternoon in Late-Summer Heat but Perk Up by Morning, Here Is Why

If Your Zucchini Plants Turn Out All Flowers and No Fruit in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

What It Really Means When Carpenter Bees Are Hovering Around Your North Carolina Porch This Summer

If Your Cucumber Leaves Turn Yellow From the Bottom Up in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

If Your Pepper Plants Suddenly Drop Their Leaves in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

What It Really Means When Wolf Spiders Start Showing Up Around Your North Carolina Yard This Late Summer

If Your Tomato Plants Grow Tall and Leafy but Set Almost No Fruit in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

If Your Cucumber Plants Stop Producing New Fruit in Late-Summer Heat, One Pollination Problem Is Usually Behind It

The Most Underrated North Carolina Native Vine That Crowds Out Weeds Along Fences Better Than English Ivy

If Your Hydrangeas Grow Big Leaves but No Flowers Right Now, One Pruning Mistake Is Usually Behind It

What It Really Means When A Fox Keeps Showing Up In Your North Carolina Yard This Summer

If Your Cucumber Vines Suddenly Wilt Overnight in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

What It Really Means When Stink Bugs Start Showing Up Inside Your North Carolina Home This Summer

If Your Cucumber Leaves Curl Upward and Feel Leathery in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

If Your Zucchini Fruit Rots at the Blossom End in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

If Your Pepper Flowers Drop Off Before Setting Fruit in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

If Your Tomato Skins Crack in Rings Around the Top During Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

If Your Tomato Fruit Splits Open After a Late-Summer Watering Swing, Here Is Why

The Most Underrated North Carolina Native Shrub Behind the Mosquito-Repellent Story on a Woodland Edge

Zucchini Leaves Turning Silvery or Mottled? Check for These Causes Before You Spray

If Your Potted Tomatoes Stay Small and Dry Out by Afternoon, Cramped Pots and Late Watering Are Usually Behind It

The Most Underrated North Carolina Native Shrub That Feeds Birds Right When Everything Else Has Stopped Fruiting This Fall

If Your Squash Leaves Show a White Powdery Coating in Late-Summer Heat, Powdery Mildew Is Usually Behind It

Potted Pepper Plants Staying Small? Cramped Roots May Be One Reason – But Check These Signs First

What It Really Means When Hawks Keep Circling Over Your North Carolina Yard This Summer

If Your Cucumber Fruit Grows Fat at One End and Pinches at the Other in Late-Summer Heat, Uneven Pollination Is Usually Behind It

The Most Underrated North Carolina Native Grass That Crowds Out Weeds Along Your Wooded Edge Better Than Mulch

If Your Pepper Leaves Turn Yellow and Drop From the Bottom Up in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

If Your Tomato Leaves Show Yellow Blotches and Brown Patches in Late-Summer Heat, Early Blight Is Usually Behind It

If Your Cucumber Plants Suddenly Wilt and Collapse in Late-Summer Heat, Squash Vine Borers Are One Possibility Worth Confirming

A Cucumber Vine That Wilts and Keeps Declining May Have Bacterial Wilt – Especially When Cucumber Beetles Are Present

If Your Pepper Flowers Keep Dropping Off Before They Set Fruit in Late-Summer Heat, Here Is Why

If Your Cucumber Leaves Develop Yellow Halos and Angular Brown Spots in Late-Summer Heat, Bacterial Leaf Spot Is Usually Behind It

If Your Zucchini Stops Setting Fruit and the Tiny Ones Shrivel in Late-Summer Heat, Poor Pollination Is Usually Behind It

What It Really Means When A Fox Starts Showing Up In Your North Carolina Yard This Summer

If Your Cucumber Leaves Turn Bronze and Stippled in Late-Summer Heat, Spider Mites Are Usually Behind It

What It Really Means When Brown, Shield-Shaped Stink Bugs Start Sneaking Into Your North Carolina Home in Late Summer and Early Fall

If Your Tomato Fruit Shows Sunken Black Patches on the Bottom in Late-Summer Heat, Blossom End Rot Is Usually Behind It

Tiny Zucchini Rotting at the Tip? Here Is How to Tell What Is Really Going On