Mutations in Your Garden
The word “mutation” often evokes images of evil, slimy creatures slithering out of nuclear waste ponds in one of those B-class scienceContinue Reading
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Don’t Forget to Mulch your Vegetable Garden!
The age-old tradition for vegetable gardens is to plow the soil deeply at the beginning of each season and then doContinue Reading
Ants in your Plants? It’s a Good Thing!
Every June, I received dozens of emails from panicked gardeners saying something like: “Ants are eating my peony flowers: whatContinue Reading
Trees and Shrubs that Get Around
Most trees produce only a single trunk over their entire life. The average shrub, too, produces all its branches from aContinue Reading
The Easiest Water Garden
You’ve been dreaming of a water garden, but can’t find a place in your budget for such a massive installation? Or youContinue Reading
The Forest: the Ultimate Landscape for the Laidback Gardener
The beauty of a natural forest for the laidback gardener is that it requires almost no intervention on your part. Finally,Continue Reading
Twining Plants Like ‘Em Thin
Most climbing plants cling to their support by twining, that is wrapping themselves around it. And most twining plants willContinue Reading
Plant a Row for the Hungry
Plant a Row (Grow a Row in Canada): that’s the title of a program launched by the Garden Writers’ AssociationContinue Reading
Have A Ball Stopping the Apple Maggot
The main apple insect pest in most home gardens is the apple maggot (Rhagoletis pomonella), a small fly whose larva burrowsContinue Reading
Leave Those “Suckers” on Your Tomato Plants
(This is a repeat of a blog from last year, but I feel I should repost it, as I’ve been gettingContinue Reading