Starting from Scratch
A Complete Guide to Starting Seeds Indoors (and Producing Your Best Veggie Garden Yet!) The most difficult time of year for me as a...
Camellias Stars of the Winter Garden
Winter can be somewhat depressing for those of us who love to look out the windows and see a beautifully lush and colorful landscape. It...
Festive Flowers & Greenery
Creating Your Own Holiday Arrangements Photos by Ashlee Glen While faux garlands certainly have their place in our modern-day homes every...
A Tradition at Risk
Recognizing and Defeating Boxwood Blight Sometimes heralded as the “Aristocrat” of hedging topiaries, boxwoods have held the limelight...
What’s Up With My Houseplant?
Troubleshooting common problems in the off season Images of houseplants abound on social media outlets today. We’re encouraged to have...
Growing the Perfect Peaches
There are few things so satisfying as a cool, juicy peach, picked at the height of summer. That first bite, breaking through the tender...
Lettuce 101
A Guide to Growing Your Own Greens Conventional nutrition advice is very clear: Leafy greens should be a big part of our diets. But,...
Backyard Birds
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW When most people think of raising livestock of any kind, they think of big farms and wide-open spaces—but we...
Flowering Friends of the Vegetable Patch
USING FLOWERS AMONG FOOD CROPS There is a certain satisfaction in seeing crisp, clean rows of tomatoes or tightly packed lines of lettuce....
Hugelkultur: Self-Sustaining Garden Practice of the Ancients
Photo by Paul Wheaton, richsoil.com For me, winter is a struggle. I can’t grow much more than lettuce, and I crave the dirt and the smell...
