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Are your crops filled with pests? What can you do with cockscomb? Is powdery mildew infecting your champion pollinator habitat? When is "small and tender" the best? Did someone say dig garlic? 

Come, and take a load off here at BBG. Plenty of places and spaces to chill out. Here's a look.

Why carry sheers right now? Do your scraggly annuals need a makeover? What do your raspberries need from you now? Are rose slugs making their moves? Did you know Japanese beetles emit chemical signals (yikes)?

The BBG Herb Display Garden is a riot of color and pollinator activity this week. The featured herb is Betony. Also, we're busy harvesting lavender and preparing a some very special products for sale in the BBG Gift Shop.

What to do with your Swiss chard? What about European corn borers? Shall we discuss repeat bloomers? Why go to a garden center right now? And what are two of the most troublesome insect pests at this time of year?

Bloom, bloom, BOOM! Let's talk about lavender and poppies. And the Kitchen Crew is as busy as ever. See the new products they've cooked up, now for sale at our Gift Shop.

Now I am wondering about my ability to grow apples at all in my Massachusetts garden. Here are some facts about fire blight and tips for how to manage it.

Blueberry time? Pea break? Cucumber beetle battles? Succession success? And further thoughts on the great question of our lives: to sucker or not to sucker? 

“Bachelor’s Button” and other plants sure are putting on a flowery show. Plus, the Kitchen Crew prepares a batch of “Rose Petal Jelly.”

What to do about Japanese knotweed? What not to inhale? What should you be pinching? What to do about your rhubarb? What lightning bugs are good for? What about those white moths? What part of “suckering” might you not understand?

Roses, roses, roses! Plus, a useful addition to seasonal bouquets. What's happening in the medicinal bed? Also, stop by the Gift Shop found in the Visitor Center to check out all the offerings made by the Herb Associates.

Potato plant hilling, garlic scape snipping, slug killing, spittlebug chilling — and more. Read Ron Kujawski's latest column.

What beautiful weather to visit the Herb Display Gardens. Many purple-blossomed herbs are blooming, including two of this week’s featured herbs — caraway thyme (Thymus herba-barona) and common sage (Salvia officinalis). Plus, more herbs have been harvested and more products are underway.

Sometimes even the best innovations have unexpected consequences. One of the most important and successful pieces of environmental legislation in the history of the United States, for example, inadvertently transformed the look of American gardens. And not for the better.

Oh, shoots! Oh, potato beetles, cabbage worms, slugs, and powdery mildew. And what are the high stakes of staking your tomatos and perennials? Read Ron's latest tips and tricks for a glorious garden.

Come visit Sweet Cicely and Lovage. And here are ways you can use these lovely herbs.