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Will strawberry plants survive an English winter unprotected?

I planted several strawberry plants in various pots and containers early this summer, they've mostly done very well and we had a bumper crop of tasty red things. With the nights dr …
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Good tips for self-watering plants

I've a number of containers on my patio with various food and decorative plants. I'm away from home for a week or two at a time fairly regularly and the plants often look very sad …
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What are the easiest, most low maintenance plants for our backyard?

We have a small backyard in NYC and are looking for the hardiest plants to survive not only the weather but our own lack of a green thumb. What are our best bets?
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What’s the best defense against garden caterpillars?

We recently started growing tomato plants and after 5 weeks we started seeing a bunch of caterpillars eating away our precious leaves and tomatoes! It took about 5 days of caterpil …