Gardening
Find gardening tips and tricks to create the perfect garden. Garden plots, raised beds and pots and DIY planters, finding the right mulch and garden design.
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growing primula from seed, with ken druse
I WAS REMARKING to my friend Ken Druse earlier this spring about a garden I’d just visited, and how the…
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for the love of pineapple lilies: eucomis, with jenks farmer
I’M CRAZY ABOUT pineapple lilies, bulbs in the genus Eucomis. And though in my zone 5 garden, they aren’t hardy,…
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dahlias galore, with ceramic artist frances palmer
SOME OF US plant a row or two of annuals for cutting, but Frances Palmer has taken the phrase “cutting…
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2 open gardens (including mine!), plant sale + other events june 3
I’M OPENING my garden on Saturday June 3 from 10 AM to 4 PM as part of a weekend of…
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the ‘wildscape’ around us, with nancy lawson (‘the humane gardener’)
OUR HUMAN-CENTRIC way of looking at things in the garden and tasting, hearing, seeing and touching things is just one…
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making and maintaining meadow gardens, with owen wormser
THE TIME IS approaching for my annual pass with the tractor through my little meadow on the hill above my…
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diagnosing plant troubles, with the purdue plant doctor
AS A GARDEN WRITER, I get a lot of questions every year basically asking this: What’s wrong with my (fill-in-the-blank)…
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My Secrets For A Weed-Free Garden
I hate to weed. It’s my least favorite gardening chore, especially in the veggie patch where annual tilling brings a…
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My Gardening Sustainability Practices – A Work In Progress
Sustainability is a growing trend that many gardeners are embracing. With climate change and other environmental issues on everyone’s radar,…
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Striving Towards Sustainability In The Garden
In this day and age of sustainability I am embarrassed to admit I could do more. It isn’t like we…
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