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Making the Most of Microclimates in the Winter Garden
Every garden has microclimates—small spaces that stay a little warmer or don’t catch the cold north winds, allowing you to grow a more delicate plant or provide extra care for…
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How to Build and Use a Mini Hoop Tunnel
Building a mini hoop tunnel is a quick process with three easy steps. 1. Insert the hoops In my raised beds, I insert the ends of my wire, metal, or…
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Protect Your Veggies With Mini Hoop Tunnels
Whether you are trying to prevent rabbits from nibbling lettuce, protect newly transplanted tomatoes from frost, or shelter cool-season vegetables into late autumn or even winter, a mini hoop tunnel…
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Gardening Tips for Winter
Winning Tip: Starting seeds with little ones We love starting seeds indoors, but with young children helping, we would end up with a muddy, overwatered mess. To prevent that from…
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What You Need to Know About Beech Leaf Disease
Gardeners best know two kinds of nematodes: those that are destructive root pests, and those that are beneficial and may be purchased to help control soil grubs, fungus gnats, thrips,…
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Easy DIY Holiday Gift Ideas for the Gardener in Your Life
Garden architecture items such as tuteurs or arbors often cost a pretty penny, but building them can save time and offer the opportunity to personalize the design to fit the…
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An Architectural Approach to Gardening
An architect in the garden. The idea might conjure images of an abstract landscape with a severely limited plant palette, replete with hardscape. Although I am an architect, this was…
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How to Grow Monsteras, Great Cultivars, and Pests to Watch Out For
It seems like monsteras (Monstera spp. and cvs., Zones 10–12) are everywhere these days. Swiss cheese plant (M. deliciosa), with its large leaves full of fenestrations, or holes, is the…
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Tips for Building Plant Communities
Understanding plants and their relationships to each other makes for a more formidable approach to gardening. Traditional gardening has often viewed plants as components of a composition without acknowledging compatibility…
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How to Create an Ecologically Vibrant Garden
Naturalistic garden design catches all the headlines, but until recently it seemed removed from the reality of most home gardeners. Yet no matter how your garden grows today, it can…