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How to make your lawn grub-proof

WTOP Garden Editor Mike McGrath gives advice on how to keep that grass green and lush, hold the grubs at bay and safe ways to keep caterpillars away all.

Tags: mike mcgrath, grass, caterpillar, mosquitoes, Milky Spore, stinkbugs, grubs, stink bugs

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Garden Plot: How to beat back mosquitoes

Garden Plot Editor Mike McGrath answers all of your garden and lawn care questions. On the list this week: controlling ticks and mosquitoes, wise watering and rose bush care.

Tags: gardening, mike mcgrath, Tick Tubes, watering, mosquitoes, ticks, lawn care

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Preventing and treating poison ivy

It's the time of year when everyone starts heading outside. And it is also the time of year when doctors see an uptick in poison ivy cases.

Tags: poison ivy, Paula Wolfson, gardening, spring, mike mcgrath, Howard Brooks, georgetown

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Garden Plot: Grow delicious tomatoes and ward off frost damage

Garden Editor Mike McGrath has tips for protecting plants from a late spring frost, growing tomatoes and keeping lawns green.

Tags: tomatoes, mulch, mike mcgrath, frost

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Garden Plot: Tomato plants need warm nights

Nights with temperatures in the 40s won't kill your plants as impressively as frost, but those temperatures will stunt the growth of your tomato plants.

Tags: tomatoes, mike mcgrath, crabgrass, mulch, gardening

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Garden Plot: Torch those dandelions goodbye

Weed and seed like a pro with advice from Mike McGrath.

Tags: weeds, ticks, pets, mike mcgrath

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Cicadas, ticks and moles in your garden

WTOP Garden Editor Mike McGrath offers advice on cicadas, moles and ticks. And he has some tips about when to put your summer plants outside.

Tags: mike mcgrath, gardening, cicadas, moles, ticks

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Garden Plot: The golden rules of lawn care

Cool season lawns should never be aerated in the spring. Pulling out all those little plugs to relieve soil compaction stresses the turf in the short run and you never want to do anything to stress a cool season grass with summer heat around the corner.

Tags: mike mcgrath, pruning

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Garden Plot: Some vegetables need to be planted now

WTOP Garden Editor Mike McGrath shares his advice on when to plant this spring and what will kill your vegetable garden.

Tags: mike mcgrath, corn gluten, gardening

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How to care for Easter lilies

Easter lilies don't bloom naturally at this time of year. WTOP Garden Editor Mike McGrath has advice for how to care for those plants you get and give as gifts.

Tags: mike mcgrath, gardening, easter lily

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