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  • How-To

    How to Train Tomato Plants

    Welcome to Homegrown/Homemade, a video series from FineGardening.com. We'll be following a gardener (Fine Gardening executive editor Danielle Sherry) and a cook (Sarah Breckenridge) as they plant, maintain, harvest, store,…

  • How-To

    The Helpful Green Lacewing

    Green lacewings are slender, bright, green-bodied flies that have massive appetites and use their big, sickle-shaped mouthparts to consume soft-bodied insects like aphids, thrips, white flies, and spider mites, as…

  • Plant Spring Containers Months in Advance
    Design

    Plant Spring Containers Months in Advance

    Fall is the time to plant bulbs, and they look amazing in garden beds and borders. Yet did you ever think you could plant your bulbs in containers before the…

  • Never Forget a Plant's Name Again
    How-To

    Never Forget a Plant’s Name Again

    As a gardener, you may find yourself forgetting what plants you put into your containers. It’s even more frustrating when you want to replant them but can’t remember what they…

  • Colorful entryway garden along a curved path leading up to an arbor
    Design

    An Enchanting First Impression

    Like many modern houses, Gail Gee’s suburban home in Fulton, Maryland (USDA Hardiness Zone 7), features a front door well away from and out of sight of the driveway where…

  • Article

    Designing a Lush Backyard Retreat

    Gardening has been a lifelong passion for both of us. For more than 30 years, we’ve gardened both at home and professionally, and we love spending time outdoors. We built…

  • Article

    A lawn by any other name

    Grass, Cricket and the advisability of monoculture.

  • Article

    Gorgeous Out of the Gate

    The most basic reason for a garden gate is to keep people, pests, or pets in or out, but a gate can be so much more than just a boundary…

  • Design

    Impress From a Distance

    The prospect of landscaping a 2-acre hillside with a 20-foot drop was daunting, at first. Although I’d gardened slopes before, none were of this magnitude. There were erosion and maintenance…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    The Good Will Garden

    A fitting tribute to the gentleman and gardener known as the "Pickle Man".