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Planting onions: Practice crop rotation with onions.

Rhubarb: By the second year you will be harvesting succulent red stems, and once it settles in it will virtually look after itself.

Planting Citrus: Citrus trees should be planted in a sunny and wind-protected area.

Planting peas: Peas will appreciate a good sprinkling of wood ashes to the soil before planting.

Fungicides: Apple scab, European canker, fire blight and brown rot are a few diseases attacking apple trees that copper fungicides can control.

Insecticidal soap controls various common garden pests including mites, aphids, scales, whiteflies, thrips and leafhoppers.

Rhubarb: Rhubarb can be planted from crowns in spring or in autumn. Choose a sunny or semi shaded spot on rich, fertile soil.

Water blueberries with rainwater as the lime in tap water will reduce the soil acidity over time.

Sunflowers grow best in locations with direct sunlight (6 to 8 hours per day); they prefer long, hot summers to flower well.

Fungicides: The copper fungicide disrupts the enzyme system of the pathogen and prevents the spores from germinating.

Blueberries are low maintenance, fruiting after about 3 years - and in the meantime make a very attractive patio plant.

Get to know your apple varieties: You will want to get to know the characteristics of your favorites, including their color, size and shape.

Growing Honeyberries: For the best yields on tasty Honeyberries grow them in pairs to increase pollination.

Planting Cucumbers: Cucumbers are best picked before their seeds become hard and are eaten when immature. Do not let them get yellow.

Planting onions: Select a location with full Sun where your onions would not be shaded by other plants.

Fungicides: Fixed copper sprays are a garden staple used to control a wide array of fungal and bacterial diseases that attack apple trees.

Planting Cucumbers: A cucumber is of highest quality when it is uniformly green, firm, and crisp.

Planting onions: At planting time, you can mix in some nitrogen fertilizer, too, and side dress every few weeks until the bulbing process begins.

Storage Citrus: Undamaged citrus fruits can be stored for several weeks at cool temperatures.

Autumn fruiting raspberries are self supporting so you can plant them in containers or in clumps throughout your garden.