What does it take to have the best cool season organic garden in your neighborhood? The best soil! We have tips. Also: advice for controlling tomato hornworms.
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Flashback Episode: GB 233 Soil Questions. Grow Winter Tomatoes? Yes!
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Tomato Hornworms
Tomato Pinworms
Tomato Fruit Worms
Soil Testing: UMass/Amherst, Texas A&M, Colorado St.
Home Soil Test Kits
Soil Sleuth
Soil Probe
pH test kits
Plants That Attract Beneficial Insects
The Good Bug Hotel
Bt - Bacillus Thurgiensis (tomato worm control)
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