Leggy tomato seedlings. Credit: Sam Schipani / BDN There are many advantages to starting seeds indoors , including the control it gives you over the types and varieties of crops you grow. It also allows you to control the means by which the plan…
Small Space Gardening by Diane Dryden is a series of garden articles that will run the entire summer with information for both new and experienced gardeners. Every two weeks the articles will update as the gardening year progresses; from picking out…
Vego Garden’s 17-inch raised bed. Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening generally recommends buying metal beds over those made of wood. (Vego Garden) One of the first lessons I learned as a gardener is that if you don’t have high-quality soil, the greene…
A gardening “cold call” is risky. You knock on a door, introduce yourself, and ask whoever answers if they can talk about the garden you’ve seen from the street. Sometimes, it’s a dud. This time, I got lucky. In this slow and often cool spring, flow…
Prairie blazing stars ( Liatris pycnostachya ) under longleaf pines. Photo by Matt Buckingham . All other photos supplied by the author ‘A farm is not beautiful unless it is productive.’ – from The Conservationist (1974) by Nadine Gordimer With a…
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