Kitchen Gardening
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How-To
6 Tips to Successfully Grow Herbs Inside Year-round
If you want to enjoy regular flavor in your kitchen anytime and at a moment’s notice, you can grow herbs inside all year long. Here are a few tips for…
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How-To
8 Great Herbs Easily Grown From Seed
Herbs are powerful plants. Just the thought of picking fresh rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus spp. and cvs., Zones 8–10) or basil (Ocimum basilicum spp. and cvs., annual) can awaken our sense…
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Design
Go Behind the Scenes of Fine Gardening | Letter from the Editor
The editors here at Fine Gardening are not “just” editors. To say that they wear many hats might be the understatement of the century. They are, in my humble opinion,…
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Design
Growing Knowledge: The Essential Guide to Landscape Design with Courtney Olander
The landscape is important for any home. It should invite, guide, and welcome friends and guests. It should accentuate the home and its key architectural elements and, ideally, hide its…
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How-To
Care for Your Garden Tools and Houseplants, and Learn to Build a Cold Frame
Now that most of the fall cleanup is done and the colder weather has truly set in for many of us, it’s time to think about those off-season gardening tasks.…
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How-To
Growing Shallots in the Southern Plains
Shallots (Allium cepa var. aggregatum and cvs.) are expensive to purchase in the store, which is one reason I like to grow my own. A member of the allium or…
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Design
Garden Tools for Bulb Planting and the End of Season
If you're checking the thermometer lately, you'll know that the end of the gardening season is fast approaching for many of us. But, if this chilly weather has you feeling…
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Design
Garden Tools for Fall from Field Notebooks to Leaf Cleanup
It's almost fall, and that means garden maintenance. Leaf cleanup, digging, dividing, spreading mulch, and one task we often forget—record keeping. There's much to be done to get the garden…
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How-To
Reliable Vegetables for Fall in the South
In our part of the South, “fall” is more an idea than an actual season. It’s hot, hot, warm, and then one night there is a hard freeze. We’ve been…
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Design
6 Pro Gardening Tools That Home Gardeners Need Right Now
A home gardener faces many challenges– pests, a lack of time, unforeseen expenses . . . we could go on. But one challenge that is easily rectifiable is insider information…