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garden prep

A healthy garden starts with healthy soil. Organic gardening tips for how to prepare soil, and plant a vegetable garden or flower garden, including garden cleanup, preparing and maintaining beds and borders are covered here.

soil-supporting advice from the real organic project

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is ‘no mow may’ the answer? some lawn thoughts, with mary phillips

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‘cleanup-plus:’ a conscious fall approach, with ken druse

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getting ready to stash the tender plants, with marianne willburn

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editing the start-of-summer garden, with ken druse

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weed-fighting natives, with ‘wildscape’ author nancy lawson

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

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creative garden maintenance, with noel kingsbury and annie guilfoyle

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

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cornell’s climate change demonstration garden, with sonja skelly

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

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gravel gardens, with jeff epping of olbrich botanical gardens

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

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counting down the last fall garden tasks, with ken druse

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dividing and editing perennials, with wethersfield’s toshi yano

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bee-friendly garden cleanup, with heather holm

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cutbacks and more: keep the garden looking great when spring fades, with ken druse

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dividing perennials (and some shrubs): when, why and how-to, with ken druse

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lee reich’s blueberry-growing how-to

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what to plant now for a fall vegetable garden

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raised beds, grow bags and more, with epic gardening’s kevin espiritu

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which fertilizer should i use? feed the soil instead, says lee reich

soil preparation: 7 ways to make a garden bed

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mulch faq’s

'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener