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How-To
A Simple Way To Start Seeds Indoors
If you’re looking for a simple, inexpensive way to start seeds inside your home, look no further. In this video, gardener Ruth Dobsevage demonstrates her unassuming yet effective seed-starting technique. …
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How-To
All You Should Know About Compost
Composting is a common practice among gardeners who want their soil to be healthy and nutrient-rich. Composting is the natural process of recycling organic matter, such as food waste or…
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How-To
Never Forget a Plant’s Name Again
As a gardener, you may find yourself forgetting what plants you put into your containers. It’s even more frustrating when you want to replant them but can’t remember what they…
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Design
Plant Spring Containers Months in Advance
Fall is the time to plant bulbs, and they look amazing in garden beds and borders. Yet did you ever think you could plant your bulbs in containers before the…
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How-To
The Helpful Green Lacewing
Green lacewings are slender, bright, green-bodied flies that have massive appetites and use their big, sickle-shaped mouthparts to consume soft-bodied insects like aphids, thrips, white flies, and spider mites, as…
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Design
Breaking the Rules
Whether I am visiting a public garden or in a landscape created by nature, I think about what makes these places special. I inevitably conclude that the gardens I love…
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Design
An Enchanting First Impression
Like many modern houses, Gail Gee’s suburban home in Fulton, Maryland (USDA Hardiness Zone 7), features a front door well away from and out of sight of the driveway where…
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Article
Garden Makeover: From Blank Slate to Cozy Space
Cherry and Raymond Ong knew that it would be impossible to re-create the lush tropics of their native Philippines at their home in British Columbia. But they also knew that…
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Article
Wheel Meet Again…
The wheelbarrow - one of the simplest and yet most important tools ever invented by man.
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Article
Tips for Selling Your Garden (er, Home) Part 1
With housing sales picking up, you might be considering putting your house on the market. The garden you've loved and labored over can help you sell or it might be…