Some apple types are already ripe. Do you know how to make an apple puff? You chase it around the yard.

There’s a lot happening around the yard and garden in late summer. Have you noticed how beautiful the petunias in containers and hanging baskets are this year, both in home yards and up and down city streets?

A long-standing recommendation to keep petunias blooming vigorously was to deadhead them, meaning pinching off the withered flower petals and the small green seed capsule to which the petals were attached.

Good news! Modern hybrid trailing-type petunias don’t need deadheading. They continue flowering magnificently without pinching off the old, dead flowers. Plant descriptions often refer to these as “self-cleaning.”

Most petunias developed for containers and baskets are sterile,

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