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Make a Foraged, Immune-Boosting Pesto for Spring

Spring is finally here! Put your cooking and foraging skills to the test with this seasonal, delicious garlic mustard pesto recipe. The following is...

Permanent Beds: Designing An Efficient Garden

Permanent beds are going to change your gardening game. This type of garden bed helps improve soil health, ensures crop growth, and is extremely...

Keep Weeds from Growing Between Pavers: Say Goodbye to Weeding!

If you have a patio or path made of paving stones, you know how infuriating the endless battle against weeds is. Every little crack...

How To Make an Alcohol-Based Cleaner

Learn all about how to care for your granite and the earth at the same time by making your own DIY granite cleaner out...

How to Grow Flowering Quince for Early Spring Color

Pests and Disease While flowering quince isn’t especially prone to disease and pests, there are a few issues to watch out for. Thanks to the thorns,...

How to Grow Vegetables in Containers

What to Grow: Choose Your Vegetables Many different varieties of produce grow well in containersespecially when you take care to accommodate their mature dimensions, provide...

Quick Takes With: Stephen Orr

You may recognize Stephen Orr’s name because he has been writing about gardening for most of his career. But it’s also likely you won’t,...

The Essential Guide to Growing Happy + Healthy Succulents

Succulents have been all the rage for quite a while now, and for good reason. They are beautiful, interesting, and easy to care for...

Yucca rostrata flowers light up night garden

April 27, 2026 Two of my beaked yuccas (Yucca rostrata) are flowering this spring, sending up four-foot bloom stalks that resemble flocked Christmas trees. Even...

What Are Fruit Tree Guilds? Learn How to Start Your Own

While the following sections of this article will explore specific species that can be included in our chosen example of a cherry tree guild,...

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Learn How to Grow Creeping Jenny (Moneywort)

Fertilizer Light feeders, creeping Jenny requires little additional fertilizing when planted in moderately rich soil. If desired, apply a slow-release, balanced feed, such as 5-5-5 NPK...

The Best Way To Fertilize Cucumber Plants

Looking for the best way to fertilize and power up your cucumber plants to get them to produce more cucumbers this year? If you want...

The Most Important Gardening Lesson I’ve Learned (and Why I Finally Wrote This Book)

My first home was a blue bungalow in an emerging neighbourhood that nobody wanted. It was at the top of my budget, so I...