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Planting Groundcover Use low-growing perennial plants and shrubs as groundcovers to cover slopes and rough ground or to replace high-maintenance lawns. Choose plants that thrive in your particular soil and climate.   |
This Old House
Roger Cook |
Fall Fertilizing Why autumn is the right time of year to nourish your yard. |
This Old House
September 2007
Roger Cook |
Fall Groundwork "This is prime time to prep your yard for the next growing season," says our landscape contractor. |
| National Gardening |
Maintaining a Vegetable Garden Healthy, vigorous vegetable plants produce the most flavorful and bountiful harvests. Give your garden plants the moisture and nutrients they need, and keep them weeded and harvested for tasty and nutritious crops. |
| National Gardening |
Oriental Poppy Sporting huge, cup-shaped blooms in early summer, the Oriental poppy is the most striking of the perennial poppies, and the delicate, papery flowers belie the plant's hardiness and durability. But you should still heed these tips. |
This Old House
Lynn Ocone |
Say Good-bye to Weeds Think it's an overstatement to call it the war against weeds? Here's what you're up against... |
This Old House
Roger Cook |
Smart Sprinkling When the skies are cloudless and the days are hot and long, you can help your lawn and garden survive by watering wisely |
| National Gardening |
Fall Garden Cleanup Q and A Here are some questions we've received about fall cleanup in the garden, along with the answers given by our regional horticulture staff. |
| National Gardening |
Perennials 101 Owing to a fairly recent revival of the casual "cottage garden" look, perennials are more popular with today's home gardeners than they ever have been. |
National Gardening
Patt Kasa |
Shop for Trees & Shrubs Years of experience have helped me hone my detective skills and I've developed an almost fool-proof method of choosing the healthiest specimens for my landscape. You can become a savvy shopper, too, by following these same guidelines. |
| National Gardening |
Cultivating the Garden A little work now will save you tons of time and trouble later in the season. |
This Old House
Thomas Baker |
Dividing Plants What to do when a perennial gets too big for its bed? Divide and conquer! |
National Gardening
Bonnie Lee Appleton |
Fall Tree Care The attention young trees need in Fall |
| This Old House |
Winter Plant Tip: Buy Ugly Dormant bare-root plants make for a wise cold-weather purchase. |
This Old House
Lynn Ocone |
How to Get Rid of Weeds How to identify common weeds in your lawn and professional removal tips to get rid of them. |
National Gardening
Kate Jerome |
Shrubs for the Perennial Garden When we think of shrubs, most of us picture foundation plants or a shrub border. Of course shrubs are naturals for these situations, but there is another setting for shrubs -- especially blooming ones -- that we don't always consider: the perennial garden. |
| National Gardening |
Tools for Planting Using the right tools and the proper techniques will not only make planting less of a chore, but also a greater success. |
| National Gardening |
Cultivating Greens Weeds are green and while some, like lamb's quarters and purslane, can be eaten as greens, you really don't want them growing in among your salad crops. They steal moisture, fertilizer and sunlight. |
| National Gardening |
Mulching Trees and Shrubs Why mulch? Because it helps minimize weeds, conserve moisture, moderate soil temperature, and make your yard look good. |
National Gardening
June 2000
William Bryant Logan |
Helping Plants to Help Themselves Mycorrhizal fungi promote plant growth and reduce fertilizer dependence |
| National Gardening |
Care and Harvest of Strawberries You won't be idle until your first harvest. You must not let the new plants set berries in their first year. They will try to fruit, but you must pick off the blossoms as they appear. |
Popular Mechanics
September 19, 2008
Ryan M. Wilson |
How to Plant for Fall and Prepare Your Garden for Winter Planting a fall garden can be a rewarding effort and a great start to preparing your entire yard for winter's dormancy as the last head of lettuce is plucked. |
| National Gardening |
Preventing Rose Diseases It's no surprise that roses are among the most popular ornamental garden plants: they're beautiful, fragrant, and easy to grow in most climates. |
This Old House
Lynn Ocone |
The War on Weeds How to identify and get rid of the most common weeds in your lawn. |
This Old House
February 2, 2001
Warren Schultz |
Getting the Best Deal on Plants Your guide to buying plants for the upcoming growing season... |
| National Gardening |
Getting Started With Perennials First, we dispel a common myth: You don't need to be an expert gardener to grow perennials. Then we answer a few common questions about perennials. |
| Garden Gate |
Summer Escape: Planting Beneath Shade Trees If you've ever tried to grow a garden under a tree, you know that your plants have to compete with the tree's roots for space, water and nutrients. Here are some tips that can make growing a garden under a tree easier. |
| National Gardening |
Dividing Perennials For one reason or another, most gardeners will need to divide their perennials at some point. Here are some guidelines. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Getting Gardens Ready for Winter While gardeners in warmer climes (USDA zones 8 to 10) relish the cool air because it signals fall planting time, most gardeners across the country know it's time to wrap up the garden. |
| National Gardening |
Planning a Low-Maintenance Landscape Landscapes that require minimum time and money to maintain require thoughtful planning and installation. So invest early in planning and structures, and you'll pay (and work) less later. |
This Old House
Josh Garskof |
Get Ready for Fall Now's the best time to spruce up your yard |
| National Gardening |
Winter Root Crop Gardening Whether you live in the cold North or the warm South, you can store some of your root crops in the garden. Your winter garden can yield fresh vegetables all winter long and into the spring. |
This Old House
Lynne Ocone |
10 Minutes to More Flowers A quick annual pruning will keep flowering shrubs shapely and full of blooms. |
National Gardening
April 2000
Barbara Pleasant |
Balloon Flower Easy to grow, reliable, looks great as a border -- and it's blue |
| National Gardening |
Renovating a Flowering Shrub Old shrubs often become overgrown and full of crowded stems and dead wood. To reduce the shrubs' size and width and rejuvenate them, follow these pruning techniques. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Fungi for Roots Mycorrhizae fungi help plants grow... |
National Gardening
Karen Dardick |
Meadows Come to Town Weary of the lawn routine? Wildscapes are an intriguing alternative |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Shopper's Guide to Bark Mulch The advantages of using organic mulch to blanket soil around trees, shrubs, and perennial plants are many. This article explores the kinds of bark mulches you can buy and their advantages and disadvantages. |
National Gardening
Jack Ruttle |
The Tomato-Vetch Connection A USDA-devised mulch system is revolutionizing tomato farming... |
This Old House
Roger Cook |
Right Plant, Right Spot Follow these 4 rules for plant shopping and you'll never end up with a garden misfit |
This Old House
Roger Cook |
Gardening by the Sea The author shares tips on growing a healthy and beautiful seaside garden. |
This Old House
Lynn Ocone |
15 Foolproof Shrubs Our top picks for plants that provide maximum beauty with minimal hassle |
| National Gardening |
Maintaining Container Gardens These simple maintenance tasks will keep keep your patio planters and window boxes looking their best throughout the growing season and help cold-climate gardeners prepare for winter. |
| National Gardening |
Getting Started with Container Gardening Here's a look at some of the benefits of container gardening and choosing the right containers for your plants. |
| National Gardening |
Planting Strawberries Strawberries will do best in soil that has been thoroughly prepared. If your future strawberry bed was plowed last year, you're ahead of the game. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Landscape Fabrics Try the easy way to a weed-free yard this summer. Landscape fabrics eliminate weed growth around trees and shrubs for years, saving the time and energy you'll spend weeding and spraying herbicides. |
| National Gardening |
Growing Onions As with most vegetables, you can start onions from seed in the garden. But many onions have relatively long growing seasons and onion seeds don't germinate quickly, so it's often better to start the crop another way. You can set out transplants, or you can plant "sets" (half-grown onions). |
National Gardening
Vicky Congdon |
Smoke Bush Cotinus, or smoke bush, can be grown across the United States and is available in several varieties. Buying, planting and growing suggestions are offered. |
| National Gardening |
Pruning Trees and Shrubs With a little instruction and some common sense, you'll be able to prune your trees, shrubs, and roses like a pro and have beautifully shaped, flowering plants to boot. |
National Gardening
Jane von Trapp |
Entry Garden Make-Over A front entrance garden has to be functional and inviting, but where do you begin? |
