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Kathryn Herman’s Country Garden in Connecticut

Herman is also especially generous with the details, like a friend offering insightful advice. For example, here’s her precise description of her...

Fenugreek Microgreens: How to Grow Methi Sprouts in 14 Days on Your Counter (No Soil Required)

My fenugreek may be your methi. The aromatic, cuboid seeds of Trigonella foenum-graecum—a clover-like legume whose botanical name translates as Greek hay—are used as...

Best Wind Chimes for the Garden: 10 Easy Pieces

Years back, I learned about the lesser-known sonambient work of Italian-American designer Harry Bertoia. Bertoia, celebrated for his now-iconic wire mesh seating, created...

The Mycelium and Its Secrets

How do mushrooms grow? How do they eat, reproduce, or spread? What exactly is a mushroom? All of these answers and more can be found...

Marty’s 2025 Garden Highlights, Part 3

Happy Friday, GPODers! Winter isn’t over yet, but we are inching closer and closer to...

How One Gardener Designed Her Home for Sharing

What does it look like to design a home and garden around community? In this Q&A, we explore how one East Van gardener has...

Episode 190: Deer-Resistant Plants – Fine Gardening

Meet the plants that have proved to be deer-resistant in our gardens A public service announcement prior...

Ask the Expert: Tom Eaglestone on How to Reuse Preexisting Materials in Your Garden

We’ve been noticing lately that a talent for stonework is more than an extra feather in the cap for garden designers. Wilder planting can...

Finding Garden Advice in the Offseason

During the peak season, gardening advice inevitably comes at you from everywhere and everyone—whether...

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The Whole Sunflower – Chelsea Green Publishing

“The process of cooking sunflowers is slightly different from that for cooking artichokes, with the result being a unique vegetable with the texture of...

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...