Techniques - Page 103 of 199 - Fine Gardening
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Design
Create a Garden with Cohesiveness
Have you ever noticed that the best gardens have a seamless continuity? These spaces, which are often featured in gardening books and magazines, always seem to flow together beautifully because…
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Article
Ways to Improve Pollination in the Veggie Garden
Procreation in the garden is pretty simple. The pollen from a flower’s stamen has to find the ovary (pistil) in another—or sometimes the same—flower; the plant is now pollinated, and…
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Design
Trade in Your Troublesome Plants
If you’ve ever grown plants, odds are that you’ve tried a plant that you couldn’t (or shouldn’t) grow for some reason. Did your grandma grow lilacs on her farm in…
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Grow Tomatoes Vertically to Enhance Your Harvest
Tomatoes are delicious, abundant, and easy to love, but the plants on which they grow can be a challenge. Left to their own devices, tomato plants will sprawl over the…
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Design
The Best Varieties of Campanula
Contemplating the myriad of campanulas makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. The diversity of floral shapes, blossom colors, and plant habits is both astounding and enticing.…
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Kitchen Gardening
How Redworms Reproduce
If you've ever laid in bed at night, staring at the ceiling and wondering "How do worms make babies?" Have I got a post for you.
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Salad Days
We've had a cool spring and rain so this year the salad greens are phenomenal. And I don't just mean lettuce (although I love the choices we have)... no ho…
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Kitchen Gardening
Thoughts on Compost Activators and Inoculators
Want to rev up your compost a little?
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Kitchen Gardening
There’s A Garden App For That, Part III
Need to identify a pest, plant or disease? Look no further than your mobile apps.
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Springtime in the Emerald Isle
Just returned from a trip to Ireland, where the countryside is lush and green from the spring rains--no wonder its moniker is the Emerald Isle. Come take a brief tour…