planning - Fine Gardening
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Design
How Great Garden Design Happens
As a professional garden designer, I help people plan and execute projects of all sizes. Experience has taught me that asking the right questions and helping my clients to make…
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Kitchen Gardening
Totally Free Online Vegetable Garden Planners
As far as I can tell, we're all going to need a leg up. Here's where a cheat sheet comes in handy.
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Kitchen Gardening
Preparing Your Vegetable Garden for Fall
As the summer heat is (slowly) winding down, excitement is building for the best gardening season of the year. Here’s how to get ready for it.
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Design
A Bold Border of Trees and Shrubs
When I began working with one of my landscape clients, in 1988, he had been building his collection of trees and shrubs for many years. They had been assembled with…
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Article
13 Smart Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Start a Garden
Before you buy the jean overalls and have a dump truck of manure dropped on your driveway, it's worth it to take a day or so to think about your…
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Article
When Blight Wipes Out Your Tomatoes, Eat Beans
Like investors, gardeners should diversify their portfolios. So when the tomato "market" crashes, you will still have something fresh to eat.
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Kitchen Gardening
Planning Your First Vegetable Garden
Before you decide on what to grow, you need to make some decisions about your garden's location, size, and shape.
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Article
Keep a Garden Journal
Recording your garden's rhythms and rhymes improves results and spurs creativity.
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Article
How to Start a Kitchen Garden
Lucy Apthorp Leske designs a vegetable garden for her sister and her family, and explains what we all need to consider before deciding to start a garden of our own…
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Article
9 Reasons to Start a Vegetable Garden
Need convincing that growing your own vegetables is worth the time and effort? Read on.