tips - Fine Gardening

  • shower caddy used as garden tool tote
    How-To

    Budget-Friendly Garden Hacks and Tips to Keep Things Organized

    Winning tip: Handy garden tool tote Several years ago while shopping at a big-box store, I spotted this tote in the household-cleaning section. In addition to carrying cleaning supplies, it can…

  • serrated kitchen knife stuck into a garden bed
    How-To

    Readers Tips: Repurposed Tools in the Garden Used to Great Effect

    Winning Tip: From the kitchen to the garden Several times a year a visitor to our garden is shocked to find a rogue steak knife pierced downward in one of…

  • Growing Hot Peppers
    How-To

    Tips for Growing Hot Peppers

    Peppers are native to the tropics, which explains why they thrive in warm weather. As tempting as it is to get a jump-start on the gardening season, do not plant…

  • mesh bags for winter bulb storage
    How-To

    Tips on Storing Bulbs, Pruning Hedges, Supporting Plants, and Overwintering Biennials

    Mesh bags for winter storage - Winning Tip Every autumn, despite having saved mesh bags from my purchases of onions, bulbs, and the like, I find myself searching for additional…

  • Design

    Tips for Getting Weeds Under Control Early

    Spring is the best time to get weeds under control (or even eliminated) from your beds and borders. The following tools and maintenance tricks will help you get things off…

  • Pitchfork with ingredients to make compost
    How-To

    6 Ways To Make More Compost

    My grandmother, who managed a working farm in my birthplace of Malta, gave me my first lesson on soil health when I was about seven. As we harvested lettuce for…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    5 Easy Vegetable Garden Hacks

    Vegetable gardeners are known for their clever work arounds to take some of the work out of growing their gardens. Here are five of the easiest garden hacks to start…

  • How-To

    Gardening Time-Saving Tips

    Whenever I hear of gardeners who spend hours a day in their gardens, I get insanely jealous. As a mom and wife with a full-time career, I’m lucky if I…

  • Kitchen Gardening

    Veggie Garden Tidbits, Volume I

    Here’s the first volume of random, yet helpful tips and thoughts to feed your garden brain.

  • 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…