How to Landscape with Vines
Vines are of great landscape value, but many gardeners fail to realize their potential for adding vertical elements and blocking objectionable views.
Home Garden Tips
Tips for growing your best organic vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, and perennials in your home garden.
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
Immediately see which USDA Hardiness Zone your town or city is in. This is critical to know so you buy plants that can survive winters in your area.
Switchgrass, Sedum, Solomon’s Seal, Turtlehead: Choice Perennials For Your Garden
Northwind Switchgrass, Hot Lips Turtlehead, Angelina Sedum and Variegated Solomon’s Seal are the top choices from the Perennial Plant Association.
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Growing Tomatoes Part 2: Watering, Harvesting, and Saving Seed
Best practices for growing tomatoes, including pruning, watering and saving tomato seeds.
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How to Grow Tomatoes Part 1: Starting Seeds to Transplanting
Tomatoes are the most popular garden vegetable in the world. These tips will get you on your way to growing the best you’ve ever had.
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Choose Plants With Attractive Bark For Winter Landscapes
Winter landscapes with summer plants can be drab. Guest Author Dr Leonard Perry suggests plants that will add beauty to any winter view
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Rototilling Your Organic Garden: More Harm Than Good?
Rototilling doesn’t benefit a garden. It creates more weeds and damages soil structure and organisms that takes months to reverse.
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Organic Gardening’s Physical Health, Mental Health, Financial, and Environmental Benefits
Those of us who spend time in our gardens know just how therapeutic organic gardening can be for our mental health and physical health.
Your Leaf Blower Shatters My Fortress Of Solitude
I rant about the unparalleled noise level and pollution of leaf blowers. I hope you appreciate the humor
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Are Chrysanthemums Annuals or Perennials?
Millions of Chrysanthemums are sold as annuals at garden centers every fall. Pity, because Mums are actually perennials and will bloom for years if planted correctly.