Techniques - Page 68 of 198 - Fine Gardening
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Design
Designing With Green
This ubiquitous color, when used well, can be just as exciting as vibrant flowers
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How-To
Keep Your Veggie Garden Growing
Most gardeners are used to growing or buying spring seedlings to establish their vegetable gardens. But what happens when spring is over and early crops have been harvested? After the…
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How-To
Maximize Your Harvest with Succession Planting
If you’re the typical gardener, you plant your vegetable garden in late spring, harvest from it in summer, and then clean it up in the fall. But you can get…
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How-To
How to Succeed With Succession Planting
Succession planting is an excellent way to increase yields and extend the harvest. Though many of us think of spring as prime planting season, late summer is the perfect time…
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Design
Hardy Native Ferns
A garden planting of ferns conjures up images of shaded retreats and cool walks by wooded streams. Yes, ferns do abound in the deepest, darkest woodlands. But not all ferns…
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Design
Japanese Style in California
Today’s photos come from Geni Hiestand. I live in the Sierra foothills in Grass Valley, California. Our front yard was a patch of weeds and clay soil when my husband…
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Article
Quintessential Summer Food: Deviled Eggs
What food do we think of for picnics, barbecues, potlucks and cool summer fare on hot summer days? Yep, deviled eggs are perhaps more American than apple pie. And every…
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How-To
How a Plant Gets to Market
Why should you care where your petunia comes from? The best reason is that knowing the basics behind any consumer-goods supply chain leads to a better understanding of cost and…
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Kitchen Gardening
Compost and Mulch
Today’s garden belongs to Julie Hammond. She writes: I am an avid gardener in Peoria, Illinois, expanding plantings with divisions and markdowns. I learned the hard way that compost and…
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How-To
Plants to Attract Wildlife
The longer I garden, the more I come to appreciate the beauty, toughness, and benefits of native plants. They provide essential food and foraging requirements for wildlife and are often…