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Agave plant care and growing tips

Agave's spiky leaves make it a popular drought-tolerant plant. Here's how to care for an agave plant in your container garden ...
If you've ever gotten into making cocktails, you've probably heard of agave syrup. It's a sweetener produced exclusively in Mexico from agave plants, and the blue agave plant is famously used to make ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A high priority is spacing pups to accommodate growth. Most mature agaves generate offsets (rhizomatous suckers) called “pups.” This is a vegetative or ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Agaves are popular gardeners’ plants because of their range of sizes, colors and leaf forms. I have been collecting Agaves for years and have been intrigued ...
Chef Antonio Caraballo prepares pork belly at Meximodo a restaurant in Metuchen, New Jersey receives an award from Guinness World Records for the Most Varieties Of Agave Spirits commercially available ...
For years, California farmers have seen some of their crops struggle amid the impacts of drought and climate change. Many have sought out more resilient plants that don’t need a lot of water — like ...
Two mezcals and one sotol won Platinum Medal-Superlative, and 25 additional mezcals won Gold Medal-Exceptional at the Beverage Testing Institute (BTI) recent judging of Mezcal and other agave spirits.
After a freeze, you may be tempted to help your century plant by tidying up the mess. Find out why it's best to wait before ...