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	Gardening Articles: Home & Health Features Into the Kitchen: Squash and Melons By National Gardening Association Editors To prepare summer squashes, wash the whole vegetable, trim off the ends and cut into cubes or slices. Serve thin, unpeeled raw slices in salads or with dips. Cook slices... more More Features: Holly Shumizu Cymbidium Orchids Gardens of Quebec Tip of the Day Protect Roses Protect tender roses by mounding bark 1 foot above the bud union. Once the ground is frozen, pound four wooden stakes into the soil around the rose, wrap the bush with burlap, and fasten it together with rope.