garden projects
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Design
Sallie’s Pandemic Garden Project
Sallie Boge is sharing her garden with us today. We garden in Riverside, a nearby suburb of Chicago (Zone 5a–6b). In April 2020 we constructed two new 11x16 garden beds…
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Growing Cuttings for Gifts
If you’d like to learn how to propagate new plants from cuttings, the best way is to just go ahead and give it a try. In this video, you’ll see…
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Winter Wreath Making
Friend of the GPOD Cherry Ong makes beautiful wreaths each year for the holiday season, and today she is sharing a bunch of beautiful ones with us. She made all…
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Creative Recycling in a Woodland Garden
My name is Paul Brothe, and I live and garden in Newburgh, New York. (See a previous visit to this garden.) In 2020, I cleared an overgrown part of my…
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Gardening Through a Difficult Year
Today we’re in Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada, visiting with Kim Herdman. The year 2020 was very stressful for everyone with the pandemic, and for us the pandemic just made…
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Design
Shelter-at-Home Garden Projects
Today’s photos come from Karen Howe, who is sharing some of the things she's been up to during this year of staying home and staying safe. I garden on a…
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Design
How to Build a Strawberry Tower
Standing tall among low growing vegetables, this Strawberry Tower is both decorative and functional.
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Design
Build a Sturdy Arbor
A weekend’s work and a few pieces of lumber yield a handsome home for vines
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How-To
Learn Lashing and Make Your Own Garden Trellises
A genuine lashing is more efficient, more fun to tie, and usually stronger than making it up as you go along.