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WHICH shade PERENNIAL IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
Hosta is a shade gardener’s best friend. With thousands of cultivars to choose from in a wide range of sizes, shapes and foliage colors, it offers endless ways to keep your borders fresh and exciting.
Drought - Tolerant Beauty
Faced with hot, dry summers, this gardener has created a resilient garden filled with tough plants.
Viburnum
This versatile group of shrubs has year-round garden appeal. Which one is right for your garden?
8 Solutions for Spring Garden Problems
Spring is full of anticipation and hope for a successful garden season.
Spring Ephemerals to Treasure in the Garden
When you walk through the woods in early spring before the trees leaf out, you may be delighted to see lovely wildflowers blooming before anything else is even up and growing.
How Many Hydrangeas Are Too Many Hydrangeas?
Since I was a teenager and read Summer Since Sisters by Judy Blume for the first time, I have wanted to vacation on Martha's Vineyard.
Annual eranium
Bold blooms and fancy foliage keep your garden filled with color from planting to frost.
POWDERY MILDEW
Learn how to identify, control and prevent this common fungal disease.
THE BIG HAUL
WITH THE RIGHT TOOLS, HEAVY LIFTING IN THE GARDEN GETS A LOT EASIER. THESE ARE OUR FAVORITES!
GARDEN ESSENTIALS ELEVATE YOUR GARDEN WITH RAISED BEDS.
ELEVATE YOUR GARDEN WITH RAISED BEDS.
Get LOW in Spring
There comes a time when we all just want to start planting in our gardens again, and a low tunnel provides an earlier-is-better option.
Making Bucks from Clucks
These five reasons might be why you're losing money on your chickens.
Soil Testing
Whether you are new to farming altogether or you are leasing your farmland to a producer who is unfamiliar with the practice, becoming knowledgeable about the acts of soil testing and them applying recommended soil amendments based on soil test results provides tremendous advantages to the soil, plants, and your pocketbook.
Small-But-Mighty Hot Peppers
You don’t have to have a lot of garden space or an especially long growing season to succeed with hot peppers.
Laying AN EGG
Maintaining correct male-to-female ratios and keeping flocks of younger breeding fowl will help ensure higher fertility and hatching rates.
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Small-But-Mighty Hot Peppers
Seed-Starting Soil Temps
Don't miss out on growing time by focusing only on the air temperature.
FORAGE FOR FOWL
Consider these three cool-season forages as you plant your pasture with free-range poultry in mind.
Cut-And-Come Lettuce
Maximize your profits while minimizing time to grow and seed costs with this easy cut-and-come approach to growing lettuce salad mix.
French Intensive Gardening
This permaculture system relies on soil improvement, raised beds, close spacing, companion planting, succession planting and crop rotation. Oui, oui!
20 COOP CONSIDERATIONS
Keep these 20 things in mind when designing a home for your chickens.
PROJECT FEEDERWATCH
Gardeners can help scientists know just where the birds are in winter
Pot It Up
Shake up the containergarden with theseNorth America –native perennials
A Productive PATIO
Tiny fruit, vegetable and herb plants help gardeners maximize any sort of growing space
THE GARDEN PATH TO PERDITION
I WAS CRUISING RIGHT ALONG, feeling okay about myself, when I came across a list of the Seven Deadly Sins.
TROPICAL FUSION
A FUSS-FREE APPROACH TO USING BOLD TROPICAL PLANTS IN ANY TEMPERATE GARDEN
SENSING A PATTERN
Greg Coppa reflects on an odd weather year and what continued warming may mean for his Rhode Island garden
TOP-PRIZE PERENNIALS
A foliage masterpiece for shade and a late bloomer for sun
WINTER READING
Pass the time with any of these inspiring books
KINGS OF THE NORTHERN FORESTS
A look at the trees, shrubs and perennial plants that bolster life in Ecoregion 5