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By Kenner P. Love
Extension Agent. ANR
Crop and Soil Sciences
The following are May gardening tips from the Rappahannock Extension Office.
• Plant sweet corn and beans every two weeks through June for an extended harvest.
• Tomato cages are an inexpensive way to support your long stemmed perennials.
• Tb control weeds in a garden: prevent weed seed germination, destroy weeds that sprout before they bear seed, and do not use mulches or Compost contaminated with weed seeds.
• Allow more space for pumpkins than for cucumbers or melons. When the desired number of fruit have set, the end of the vine can be pinched off to prevent additional fruit
[iroduction and encourage arge fruit size. Harvest when rind is hard enough so it can’t be penetrated with a fingernail.
• Newly transplanted plants should be protected from cutworms with collars. Cut strips of cardboard two inches wide by eight inches long and staple them into a band placed around the plants. Press the collar about one inch into the soil.
• Stay out of the garden when foliage is wet. Walking through a wet garden spreads disease from one plant to another.
• Deep transplanting is
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