A Way To Garden

how-to

I often say my approach to gardening is 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo,' and this is the former part: the tips, tricks and techniques that help make an organic garden grow successfully. From pruning to seed-starting and composting, garden cleanup and prep and more, it's here.

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it’s edimental: the showiest tropical edibles, with marianne willburn

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seeds, cuttings, divisions: making more plants as spring approaches, with ken druse

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houseplant tuneups (and some plants to covet), with longwood’s karl gercens

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natural garden design, with benjamin vogt

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less work, healthier soil: no-dig gardening, with charles dowding

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the best of the sedges, and how to use them (even mown!), with sam hoadley

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seed shopping: italian specialties, and new catalogs to try, with lane selman

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indoor botanical cheer to mark the winter solstice, with kathy tracey

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creative garden maintenance, with noel kingsbury and annie guilfoyle

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‘wild plant culture:’ edible and medicinal natives, with jared rosenbaum

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an eco-focused fall cleanup, with native plant trust’s uli lorimer

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design tips from american gardens: ‘american roots’ with nick mccullough

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organic vegetable gardening success stories, with joe lamp’l

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historic apples get a new start, with mark richardson

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cornell’s climate change demonstration garden, with sonja skelly

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the season for saving seed, with ken druse

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crevice gardens: brave new rock gardens, with kenton seth and paul spriggs

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flowers that stand up to the heat, and growing lavender, with jenny rose carey

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troubleshooting the tomatoes, with craig lehoullier

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solutions for dry shade and other shady spots, with ken druse

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surprising native annuals (and how to find your region’s), with alan branhagen

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managing stiltgrass and other invasives, with angela sirois-pitel

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rethinking the lawn, with ecological horticulturist dan wilder

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how mulch works (and how to use it), with bill fonteno