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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.

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reducing weeds: a 101 on soil solarization, with sonja birthisel

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feeling garden overwhelm? joe lamp’l and i talk about management strategies

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week 5: hellebores, salamander eggs, and other timely teachers

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cleanup, week 3: snow melts, shoots emerge—but why are so many pinkish or purple?

cleanup week 2: forward motion, with a mighty assist from the wind and 2 friends

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cattle-panel diy projects, with joe lamp’l: trellises, cages, planting grids and more

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first day of cleanup: a tentative start to a new outdoor season

a saner approach to fall cleanup, with the habitat network’s rhiannon crain

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working around wet spring soil (and self-sowns), plus mole and vole issues: q&a with ken druse

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‘nature’s temples:’ understanding old trees and old-growth forests, with joan maloof

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proper planting of trees and shrubs, with lee reich

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proactive fall vegetable-garden cleanup, with chanticleer’s david mattern

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productive fall and winter vegetable gardens, with niki jabbour

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my favorite outdoor broom

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putting leaves to work: shredding 101, with mike mcgrath

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an expert’s guide to daffodils, with brent heath

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‘understanding roots,’ with robert kourik

cultivating ‘good garden bugs,’ with dr. mary gardiner

2015 resolution: become a more thoughtful organic gardener, with jeff gillman

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garden-soil makeover: a how-to with joe lamp’l

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garden cart, or wheelbarrow? expert thoughts on which one’s the better fit (or gift)

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overwintering tender plants, with kathy tracey

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fall vegetable garden planning, with katie spring

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fine-tune your garden: designer katherine tracey helps us take a hard look

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