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Humans Began Cultivating Avocados 11,000 Years Ago, New Evidence Shows
Scientists uncover how humans cultivated avocado in ancient Honduras, thousands of years before staple crops like maize and ...
9 Fast-Growing Fruit Trees You Can Grow Indoors, According to Gardening Experts
Growing fruit trees indoors can transform even the coziest corners of your home into a verdant personal orchard. Even better, ...
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Tom Karwin, On Gardening | Current garden projects — a year later
I summarized current projects in my garden, including planting a butterfly garden, acquiring a dwarf avocado tree and adding ...
9 Fast-Growing Fruit Trees You Can Grow in Pots and Containers
Greensleeves ( Malus Domestica ‘Greensleeves’) is a popular apple variety for container gardening, as it will reach its ...
The polyphagous shot-hole borer kills trees. Why is it so lethal, how is it treated, and can it spread across Australia?
The WA government will stop trying to eradicate an invasive beetle called the polyphagous shot-hole borer and start managing ...
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California avocado crop could be "one of the most robust in recent years"
As of mid-2025, the California avocado harvest is poised to be one of the most robust in years, the state’s Avocado ...
Gardening: Fruit trees – Drop, splitting are common issues
Blossom and fruit drop and fruit splitting are fairly common problems for fruit trees. While losing blossoms and small fruit ...
She lost her home in the Palisades fire. She’s trying to adapt to a new life. She is 100
Lee Calvert, 100, sits in her new bedroom in Bonny Doon, Calif. She moved to an accessory dwelling unit on her daughter’s ...
Food supply chain system costs farmers and regions millions of dollars
Most "fresh" food travels thousands of kilometres to be sorted, divvied up and, in some cases, sent back to the place it came ...
Why the sap of a mango tree can also irritate your skin like poison ivy
Recently, after writing about mangoes, I received the following email from Steve Huffman: “It might be worth mentioning that mango sap can cause skin irritation similar to poison ivy. When I was a ...
24 of the world’s best salads
The dish known as salad is said to date back to the ancient Roman habit of dipping romaine lettuce in salt — “herbe salata” means “salted leaves.” Now, centuries after the concept originated in ...