Techniques - Page 98 of 198 - Fine Gardening

  • Varied border of trees, shrubs and perennials along a property line
    Design

    Plants for Property Lines

    We have all seen it: the line of arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis and cvs., USDA Hardiness Zones 2–7) marching down the property line, stiff as can be, their heads lopped off…

  • Article

    What’s Wrong with My Veggies?

    It never fails. Each year, I’ll be working on the East End Community Organic Farm on Long Island, and a gardener will call out to me from a nearby plot.…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Build Your Own Wheelie Bin Composter

    This composter turns a garbage bin into a moveable compost machine.

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Floating Row Cover and Grow Tunnels Extend the Growing Season

    Although summer has gone and fall is here, it does not mean the end of the growing season. By using floating row cover or a grow tunnel covered with it--you…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Raised Bed Installation & Building Tips

    Putting in a raised bed garden? Here are some “builders tips” to make the project easier.

  • Article

    Welcome Fall–Celebrate the Autumnal Equinox

    It's that time of year again already--the summer has come and gone--and today we celebrate the official arrival of autumn. There is still lots to do in the garden...

  • How-To

    Training Grapevines on an Arbor

    Form a sheltering canopy by guiding the vines to the top and pruning them annually

  • Article

    Summer Salad, Nicoise-Style

    Summertime and the living is easy--supper time involves as little cooking as possible--and preparing something simple with garden produce. Here is a recipe for an easy salad, Nicoise-style, using whatever…

  • Article

    Garden Bounty: Late Summer Garden Happenings

    What's going on in your garden? As the harvest season is peaking and some of our summer vegetable and herb plants are winding down, it is time for preserving, tidying…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Catalog Review: Pepper Joe’s

    Pepper Joe's offers a great variety of pepper seeds, including the Guinness Book of World Records' hottest pepper variety, the Carolina Reaper.