How to Water Your Garden
If your vegetables are wilting, should you water right away?
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Watch Your Garden Grow
Read up on when to plant your veggies.
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Tree Planting 101
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
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Landscaping That’s for the Birds
Let your garden sing this year with plantings designed to attract your feathered friends.
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Fertilizing Your Garden
What you feed your plants can make a mighty difference when you come to harvest your vegetables and flowers. And spring is the time to make sure they get enough of the 13 essential mineral elements required for normal growth. Fortunately, most soils contain the micronutrients that vegetable and flowering plants require in small amounts ... More
Ornamental Grasses
Early spring is the time to plant ornamental grasses as well as to prune back last year’s growth of established clumps so that new shoots can grow unhindered. Ornamental grasses have emerged as one of the gardeners’ greatest gifts. They are available in a multitude of colorful varieties and require very little care. Most are ... More
New Potatoes by June
One of the joys of country living is the harvesting and eating of delectable new potatoes in spring. The tender, succulent tubers only 1¼-inch in diameter, gently boiled and served steaming with a touch of salt, pepper, butter, and fresh dill is one of the rare delicacies that everyone can enjoy.
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Increase Your Asparagus Harvest
It used to be nobody cared when they bit into a tasty spear of asparagus whether it was a she or a he. In fact, most people didn’t even know there was a difference. Gardeners happily planted popular open-pollinating varieties, such as “Martha Washington” and “Mary Washington,” and were pleased with the results three years ... More
Attract Songbirds to your Garden
Summer is the perfect time for entertaining, especially for our feathered friends. So as you plan new landscaping this spring, keep the birds in mind and add some “songbird plants” to your yard. The best choices are native species of trees and bushes. Native plants lure more native insects than do nonnative species, which in ... More
March Gardening Tips
The first real gardening month of the year is here. And this not being a leap year, be ready to “dig” in and prepare for those early plantings of potatoes, peas, and strawberries, as well as roses, ornamental bushes and trees. Here is a reminder of some of the chores to attend to in this ... More
Get Going in the Garden!
Late February is not the time for gardeners to recline in their favorite easy chair beside the wood stove. Spring is waiting in the wings and an early start on gardening chores can make the difference between a mediocre and a great harvest of flowers, fruits, and vegetables. Here are some of the gardening tasks ... More
Early Bird Planting
The early bird gets the worm they say; and for garden lovers, the early seed planter gets the flowers. Some flowering plants require early planting, and depending on where in the country you live, February may be the time to get going and gain a jump-start on the growing season. Some flowers, such as larkspur, ... More
Living Works of Art
You don’t have to be a master gardener to appreciate—and enjoy—the ancient craft of espalier. It’s a centuries-old horticultural technique with roots as far back as ancient Egypt. There, through faded tomb paintings of fig trees planted and flattened against sun-drenched stone walls, evidence suggests that espalier (ess-PAL’-yay) had a place in the garden. Later ... More
Brave New World of Vegetables for 2009
Don’t be a stick-in-the-mulch with your garden growing habits, planting the same vegetables year after year. This spring, plan on planting at least one new vegetable that you haven’t grown before. New dwarf varieties offer intense flavor and compact sizes that can fit easily into your garden space or even be grown in containers. Here ... More
Winter Gardening Projects
A gardener’s work is never done. Here are some winter projects for gardeners in northern climates: Dormant spray fruit trees, cotoneaster, dogwoods, and other deciduous shrubs and trees. Prune your deciduous trees and shrubs. Save fireplace ashes to use as fertilizer on iris and other alkaline soil plants. If the ground is not frozen or ... More
