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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
How to Train Tomato Plants
Welcome to Homegrown/Homemade, a video series from FineGardening.com. We'll be following a gardener (Fine Gardening executive editor Danielle Sherry) and a cook (Sarah Breckenridge) as they plant, maintain, harvest, store,…
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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
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
Designing a Lush Backyard Retreat
Gardening has been a lifelong passion for both of us. For more than 30 years, we’ve gardened both at home and professionally, and we love spending time outdoors. We built…
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Article
Gorgeous Out of the Gate
The most basic reason for a garden gate is to keep people, pests, or pets in or out, but a gate can be so much more than just a boundary…
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Design
Impress From a Distance
The prospect of landscaping a 2-acre hillside with a 20-foot drop was daunting, at first. Although I’d gardened slopes before, none were of this magnitude. There were erosion and maintenance…
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Kitchen Gardening
The Good Will Garden
A fitting tribute to the gentleman and gardener known as the "Pickle Man".