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Here's what to do when your columbine has finished its fairytale flower display for the year to ensure more blooms next year.
Once the purple firework display is over, follow these steps to set your alliums up for gorgeous blooms again next year.
When tomatoes start flowering and producing fruit, that's the time they earn their reputation as divas. But not this year!
I set up nine Vego Garden modular raised beds this spring. Here's what I learned and what I would do differently.
Did you get off to a late start? No worries, there are still so many things you can plant in July for a summer garden.
I’m amazed by my peonies. It still blows my mind that such a massive, frilly blossom comes from a bud roughly the size of a ...
Brown leaf tips on your houseplants are unsightly and can cause concern. But how do you fix it and keep it from happening in the future?
Self-reliance is a very beautiful and practical way of living to strive for, which offers many rewards, mostly beyond the monetary realm. Yet, there are a few intrepid homesteaders out there who want ...
Remember this one rule: bury deep and cover well! When we’re composting in place (also called composting in situ), we’re cutting out the middleman and putting the plant material straight into the ...
Gardening comes with a lot of anecdotal wisdom, and not all of it works. However, one bit of gardening advice that’s proven to work time and again is to plant tomatoes on their side in a trench or ...
How to grow houseplants in LECA. Including the pros and cons of transferring your houseplants to LECA and how do it step by step.
Further complicating matters, raspberry cultivars are then divided into two categories – summer-bearing and everbearing – which require altogether different pruning practices. So, the most common ...