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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eastern native annuals, with uli lorimer

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gravel gardens, with jeff epping of olbrich botanical gardens

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carnivorous ‘houseplants,’ with kenny coogan

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a smart approach to soil care and compost, with annie novak

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abuzz with gorgeous umbels, with sam keitch of pennsylvania horticultural society

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staying fit while gardening, with help from a new public tv series

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succession-sowing strategies, with meg cowden

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peat-moss alternatives, with dr. brian jackson of north carolina state

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dealing with deer in the garden, with brad roeller

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why garden design begins with acceptance, with james golden

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tackling invasive plants strategically, with christian allyn

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making connections: ancestral seeds, with truelove’s owen taylor

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tips for the shade gardener, from ken druse

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the year’s gardening lessons learned, with joe lamp’l

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d.i.y. terrariums as gifts (or centerpieces), with patricia buzo

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counting down the last fall garden tasks, with ken druse

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reading the garden’s layers with an eye to enhanced design, with david culp

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fall garden tips, from cleanup to composting to fig-tree storage, from lee reich

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monocots: a geeky theme for collecting plants and designing gardens, with ken druse

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smarter composting (skip the gimmicks!) with u.s. composting council’s cary oshins

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why and when to divide perennials, with ken druse (and tales of his latest flood)

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winter sowing of native plants, with heather mccargo of wild seed project

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matching light to houseplants, with house plant journal’s darryl cheng

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caterpillar clinic (plus magnolia scale), with the morton arboretum’s julie janoski