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  • Collection

    How to Harvest Vegetables and Fruit

    It's a special treat to grow your own vegetables and fruit. You may be itching to pull that not-quite-red tomato or unripened strawberry off the vine and give it a…

  • Article

    Herbal Dessert Recipes

    As chefs, lecturers, writers, and consultants on the herbal arts, we are always encouraging people to use herbs in both traditional and innovative ways. Several years ago, we embarked upon…

  • How-To

    Herbal Teas, From Garden to Teacup

    My first experience with herbal tea was an attempt to locate herbs for an allegedly healthful tea an herbalist friend had prescribed. It was about 20 years ago, and the…

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    Design

    Fanciful DIY Kitchen-Garden Container Ideas

    Sometimes it’s best not to ask why. I kept reminding myself of this as I toured the annual Festival des Jardins, the garden festival held at the Château de Chaumont…

  • Collection

    Video Series: How to Start a Vegetable Garden

    Start a Vegetable Garden Spring, Summer, or Fall - now is the time to learn how to start a vegetable garden. Follow along with Fine Gardening editor, Steve Aitken, and…

  • Article

    How to Make More Space in the Garden

    At the time, buying a house seemed like such a grown-up thing. But the allure of having a garden was too powerful to ignore. So after years of renting places…

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    Design

    Garden Design Basics: Use Two Colors Plus Green

    In a world full of glorious color, why limit oneself to just two when designing containers? Because limitations can be . . . liberating. Color is so seductive that it…

  • A mature-looking garden full of plants with an umbrella, stone wall and small stone patio
    Design

    A Garden That’s Younger Than It Looks

    They never weeded a bed or planted a seed, but our four teenagers were heartbroken to leave the big garden of their childhood. Why couldn’t we wait 10 years? Where…

  • Design

    Romantic Fairytale Garden

    Nancy DeBellas's garden looks like pages out of a fairytale book.

  • Mounding plants tumbling over a retaining wall’s edge combine with bright spikes of perennial flowers and architectural grasses to wrap a patio in color and texture.
    Design

    How to Turn Your Patio into a Garden Oasis

    The kitchen may be the heart of a home, but for most of us, the patio is the center of the backyard. Whether we use it as a place for…