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Pumpkins

1. Sex and the single pumpkin. Pumpkins are monoecious. A single plant will have both male and female flowers. Female

1. Best bug. For overall best bug performance in the garden, the award goes to the humble ladybug. This pretty

1. Leaf it be. We used to spend backbreaking hours raking leaves off our lawns in fall, piling them into

1. The lungs of the world. Trees produce oxygen in exchange for carbon dioxide. A large tree puts out enough

1. Ground huggers, skyscrapers. Weeds are plants with an indomitable will to live – they are tough and strong and

1. Clingstone or freestone. When you eat a peach and the flesh comes neatly away from the pit, that is

1. The roots don’t reach to China. Many tree planting failures can be traced to digging the planting hole too

Eyes 1. Those eyes have seen a lot of… Most spiders have eight eyes, and they see a lot. In

1. They are so pomaceous! Pome is from the Latin word for fruit, pomun, but in our world, we apply

Do you have dragonflies in your garden? Here are 10 neat things about these cool dragonflies. https://youtu.be/xnO8Uk3bmsY 1. Do dragonflies