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Kitchen GardeningPreparing Your Vegetable Garden for Fall
As the summer heat is (slowly) winding down, excitement is building for the best gardening season of the year. Here’s how to get ready for it.
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DesignA Bold Border of Trees and Shrubs
When I began working with one of my landscape clients, in 1988, he had been building his collection of trees and shrubs for many years. They had been assembled with…
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Article13 Smart Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Start a Garden
Before you buy the jean overalls and have a dump truck of manure dropped on your driveway, it's worth it to take a day or so to think about your…
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ArticleWhen Blight Wipes Out Your Tomatoes, Eat Beans
Like investors, gardeners should diversify their portfolios. So when the tomato "market" crashes, you will still have something fresh to eat.
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Kitchen GardeningPlanning Your First Vegetable Garden
Before you decide on what to grow, you need to make some decisions about your garden's location, size, and shape.
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ArticleKeep a Garden Journal
Recording your garden's rhythms and rhymes improves results and spurs creativity.
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ArticleHow to Start a Kitchen Garden
Lucy Apthorp Leske designs a vegetable garden for her sister and her family, and explains what we all need to consider before deciding to start a garden of our own…
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Article9 Reasons to Start a Vegetable Garden
Need convincing that growing your own vegetables is worth the time and effort? Read on.
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Kitchen GardeningYes, You Can Practice Crop Rotation
Here is a simple approach to a complex concept. If you rotate crops according to their nutritional requirements, then you can add soil amendments in rotation, too.
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ArticleSimple Strategies for Pairing Wine with Vegetables
Red or white? Sommelier Andrea Immer shares some simple tools that make it easy to pair the right wine with your vegetables.
