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BY KENNER LOVE

Extension Agent, ANR

Crop & Soil Sciences

Following are some September gardening tips from the Rappahannock • Extension Office.

• Be sure not to store apples or pears with vegetables such as potatoes and squash. The fruits give off ethylene gas that speeds up the ripening process of vegetables and may cause them to develop “off” flavors.

• Remove all two-year-old canes from raspberry and blackberry plants to reduce overwintering of disease. Soilapplied fertilizers containing potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, or calcium can be applied, but do not cultivate or irrigate at this time of the

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