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How to Plant Garlic and Tulip Bulbs for Fall: A Step-by-Step Guide
Today, we’re sharing tips on how to plant garlic seeds and tulip bulbs for the upcoming season. Garlic is one...
How to Plant Garlic and Tulip Bulbs for Fall: A Step-by-Step Guide
Today, we’re sharing tips on how to plant garlic seeds and tulip bulbs for the upcoming season. Garlic is one...
Planting for Pollinators: Create a Haven for Monarchs and More!
Planting for Pollinators: Create a Haven for Monarchs and More! At Nature Works, we genuinely care about the little...
Planting for Pollinators: Create a Haven for Monarchs and More!
Planting for Pollinators: Create a Haven for Monarchs and More! At Nature Works, we genuinely care about the little...
Planting the Vibrant Viburnum: A Guide to Successful Shrub Installation
Planting flowering shrubs can transform your garden into a blooming paradise, and the Viburnum is an exceptional choice. Known for...
Planting the Vibrant Viburnum: A Guide to Successful Shrub Installation
Planting flowering shrubs can transform your garden into a blooming paradise, and the Viburnum is an exceptional choice. Known for...
Cultivating Figs: A Guide to White and Greek Fig Trees
In our garden, there are two varieties of fig trees: white figs and Greek figs. These trees thrive in nutrient-rich...
Cultivating Figs: A Guide to White and Greek Fig Trees
In our garden, there are two varieties of fig trees: white figs and Greek figs. These trees thrive in nutrient-rich...
Preventing Over-Mulching: How to Protect Your Trees and Promote Healthy Growth
Preventing Over-Mulching: How to Protect Your Trees and Promote Healthy Growth Over-mulching is an all-too-common problem in many gardens. While...
Preventing Over-Mulching: How to Protect Your Trees and Promote Healthy Growth
Preventing Over-Mulching: How to Protect Your Trees and Promote Healthy Growth Over-mulching is an all-too-common problem in many gardens. While...
Growing Food to Enhance Resilient Communities: A Conversation with Maddie Kartoz, City Sprouts' Garden Operations Manager
In this episode of the Growing Good Podcast, we had the privilege of chatting with Maddie Kartoz, the Garden Operations...
Growing Food to Enhance Resilient Communities: A Conversation with Maddie Kartoz, City Sprouts' Garden Operations Manager
In this episode of the Growing Good Podcast, we had the privilege of chatting with Maddie Kartoz, the Garden Operations...
How to Graft Apple Trees: Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Your Own Black Oxford
Grafting apple trees is a traditional horticultural practice that allows you to grow a desired apple variety on hardy rootstock....
How to Graft Apple Trees: Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Your Own Black Oxford
Grafting apple trees is a traditional horticultural practice that allows you to grow a desired apple variety on hardy rootstock....
Bulbs to Light Up Your Spring!
As the days grow shorter and the chill of winter sets in, it’s easy to feel like the vibrant colors...
Bulbs to Light Up Your Spring!
As the days grow shorter and the chill of winter sets in, it’s easy to feel like the vibrant colors...
Cultivating Sustainable Agriculture: Insights from the Ecology School's Farm Manager
We recently visited the beautiful Ecology School at Riverbend Farm, where I had the pleasure of speaking with Marguerite Wiser,...
Cultivating Sustainable Agriculture: Insights from the Ecology School's Farm Manager
We recently visited the beautiful Ecology School at Riverbend Farm, where I had the pleasure of speaking with Marguerite Wiser,...
Gardening Tasks for August
Gardening tasks in August involve both maintaining your current garden and preparing for the upcoming fall season. Here are some...
Gardening Tasks for August
Gardening tasks in August involve both maintaining your current garden and preparing for the upcoming fall season. Here are some...
How to Naturally Protect Your Garden from Local Predators
Maintaining a beautiful garden can be incredibly rewarding and enjoyable, yet it may also draw in unwelcome guests. Local wildlife...
How to Naturally Protect Your Garden from Local Predators
Maintaining a beautiful garden can be incredibly rewarding and enjoyable, yet it may also draw in unwelcome guests. Local wildlife...
Climate Resilient Gardening
Climate change is making its mark on our environment in various ways that directly affect our gardening. The reality is that...
Climate Resilient Gardening
Climate change is making its mark on our environment in various ways that directly affect our gardening. The reality is that...
Seed Starting Basics
A Beginner's Guide to Successful Plant Growth 1. Choosing the Right Seeds Before you start, you need to choose the...
Seed Starting Basics
A Beginner's Guide to Successful Plant Growth 1. Choosing the Right Seeds Before you start, you need to choose the...
The Gardener's Guide to Tool TLC
Embarking on a regular maintenance routine for your garden tools is the key to ensuring their optimal performance and longevity....
The Gardener's Guide to Tool TLC
Embarking on a regular maintenance routine for your garden tools is the key to ensuring their optimal performance and longevity....
Prepping Houseplants for Fall Re-Entry
Some of us saw this coming. After all, fall happens right about now every year. So, you might as well...
Prepping Houseplants for Fall Re-Entry
Some of us saw this coming. After all, fall happens right about now every year. So, you might as well...
Preventing Pests with a Compost Tea
The bugs are out in full force this Summer! When you find insects in your garden, your first instinct might...
Preventing Pests with a Compost Tea
The bugs are out in full force this Summer! When you find insects in your garden, your first instinct might...
Keep the Yummy Coming
Once you’ve got a taste of your own fresh veggies plucked straight from the garden, you’ll want to keep the...
Keep the Yummy Coming
Once you’ve got a taste of your own fresh veggies plucked straight from the garden, you’ll want to keep the...
Container Reboot
Midsummer is all about excess, right? It’s about beating sun, scorching temperatures, and thunderstorms that send your pets cowering. All...
Container Reboot
Midsummer is all about excess, right? It’s about beating sun, scorching temperatures, and thunderstorms that send your pets cowering. All...
Native Seed Secrets
Tempted to go native in your garden? Seeds are a super way to start. Thanks to the new movement to...
Native Seed Secrets
Tempted to go native in your garden? Seeds are a super way to start. Thanks to the new movement to...
Seeds Get You Started
Spring is so fickle. The temperatures go up, the temperatures drop down. It’s way too risky to start planting in...
Seeds Get You Started
Spring is so fickle. The temperatures go up, the temperatures drop down. It’s way too risky to start planting in...
Big into Begonias
Why Are Begonias Big Right now? Maybe because they have personality. Unlike all those placeholder foliage plants that sit in...
Big into Begonias
Why Are Begonias Big Right now? Maybe because they have personality. Unlike all those placeholder foliage plants that sit in...
Green Gifts with Love
Your partner really wants a houseplant this Valentine’s Day. Enough hints have been dropped to let you know that a...
Green Gifts with Love
Your partner really wants a houseplant this Valentine’s Day. Enough hints have been dropped to let you know that a...
Succulents Without Tears
They’re kinky, they’re seductive, and they look like something out of Sci-Fi. You’ve always wanted a succulent, right? Well, we’re...
Succulents Without Tears
They’re kinky, they’re seductive, and they look like something out of Sci-Fi. You’ve always wanted a succulent, right? Well, we’re...
A User’s Guide to Amazing Amaryllis
You want them. Of course, you want them. Who wouldn’t be starstruck by huge bodacious trumpet-shaped blossoms blaring with voluptuousness?...
A User’s Guide to Amazing Amaryllis
You want them. Of course, you want them. Who wouldn’t be starstruck by huge bodacious trumpet-shaped blossoms blaring with voluptuousness?...
