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Cardboard, chemicals, and the garden

Cardboard, chemicals, and the garden

Cardboard might be unsafe to use in your garden. Sometimes.
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Can you trust Plants for a Future?

Can you trust Plants for a Future?

When an online plant encyclopedia goes rogue.
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On the edibility of Malope trifida

On the edibility of Malope trifida

Mallow-wort, Malope trifida, is an attractive annual flower in the Malvaceae native to the Mediterranean region. It is occasionally found…
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Plant disease as a driver of garden diversity

Plant disease as a driver of garden diversity

Bumps, blemishes, spots, scabs, mosaics, growths — plant disease are nothing if not inventive in their forms. Gardeners worry when they…
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Root Review: Hablitzia

Root Review: Hablitzia

Hablitzia, also known as Caucasian mountain spinach, is a perennial climber that has developed quite a reputation with the…
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Native plant diseases: to treat or not to treat?

Native plant diseases: to treat or not to treat?

I’ve grown a lot of Phacelia from seed and there is a lot of it growing throughout my yard. Some of it is gorgeous and healthy, growing…
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Prions, the Garden, and You

Prions, the Garden, and You

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an unusual disease of deer that has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Chronic wasting…
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Oregon cannabis needs testing

Oregon cannabis needs testing

New mold testing requirements are not the result of corporate greed or government corruption — they are vital for public health.
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Plague, famine, and the home garden

Plague, famine, and the home garden

You should have a calorie savings account.
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Permaculture and habitat destruction

Permaculture and habitat destruction

Coming to a forest near you?
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Permaculture’s misogyny problem

Permaculture’s misogyny problem

Permaculture has so far been unable to shed the misogyny that adherents often claim does not exist in its ranks.
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The Evening Primrose: weedy powerhouse

The Evening Primrose: weedy powerhouse

Oenothera biennis has a place in every garden.
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Have you seen this ad?

Have you seen this ad?

Timber companies are running an eerie anti-mask propaganda campaign.
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Leycesteria formosa, the Himalayan Honeysuckle

Leycesteria formosa, the Himalayan Honeysuckle

Himalayan honeysuckle is a weird plant, at least compared to most of the fruit we eat.
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Can you espalier medlars?

Can you espalier medlars?

Adventures in pruning a most unusual fruit.
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The Virus With No Name

The Virus With No Name

Hantavirus history, ecology, and prevention.
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Skewed Sexes, Parasitoids, and Polyembryony

Skewed Sexes, Parasitoids, and Polyembryony

The weird life of a tiny wasp sheds light on the evolution of social behavior in insects.
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Who likes Californian Eucalyptus?

Who likes Californian Eucalyptus?

Measuring insect biodiversity on invasive Eucalyptus in California.
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Are flowering/ornamental plum fruits edible?

Are flowering/ornamental plum fruits edible?

There is a hidden bounty waiting for those who are willing to pick it.
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What do lice do when their host dies?

What do lice do when their host dies?

It’s weird and sometimes involves hitch hiking.
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Purchasing land in the chemical age

Purchasing land in the chemical age

Herbicide drift is no joke.
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How I Got to Know the Liverworts

How I Got to Know the Liverworts

Spaced-repetition software can help you remember anything.
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Haunted by Honey Fungus

Haunted by Honey Fungus

How to deal with Armillaria in the garden.
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A Word on the Collembola

A Word on the Collembola

Malicious parasite or benign soil-dweller?
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Eating quince, the apple’s lost cousin

Eating quince, the apple’s lost cousin

It’s not an easy feat, but it can be a worthwhile one.
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