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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making connections: ancestral seeds, with truelove’s owen taylor
AS REGULAR READERS and listeners know, I’ve had a longtime interest in the organic seed movement, especially farm-based companies that…
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tips for the shade gardener, from ken druse
THE OTHER NIGHT I hosted an online class about shade gardening, featuring Ken Druse, whom I met in 1992-ish, almost…
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recent cookbooks to savor (and win!), with ali stafford
DID YOU MAYBE get, or give, a cookbook or two for a holiday gift? Well, hopefully you can make room…
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time to try some crinum lilies? designer and author jenks farmer thinks so.
UH-OH, NOW I’VE learned that there’s another plant I didn’t think I could grow in my Northern garden, but it…
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saving the fraser fir, a popular christmas tree, with missouri botanical’s travis hall
ADD THIS TO the “Things I Didn’t Know” file…and by the way, merry Christmas. One of the most popular holiday…
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the year’s gardening lessons learned, with joe lamp’l
BEING AN ever-better gardener means staying open to change. As long as we’ve both been gardening, my friend Joe Lamp’l…
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garden gear to covet, and to give, with ken druse
WHEN KEN DRUSE and I talked on the program a couple of weeks ago about putting our tools away for…
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d.i.y. terrariums as gifts (or centerpieces), with patricia buzo
I’M EYEING A vintage glass cookie jar I haven’t used in years, and a big glass snifter, too, that’s been…
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the wonder of lichens, with jessica allen
SOME OF THE most beautiful and intricate creatures in the garden are not plants at all. A diversity of lichen…
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revisiting the children’s classic ‘the secret garden,’ with marta mcdowell
AUTHOR MARTA MCDOWELL, a gardener and landscape designer in contemporary New Jersey, has an enduring passion for digging into history,…
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