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At year's end, a source of renewal

What’s a Beaver Moon? I had the same question

When a garden goes to bed

I happened upon a cookbook and it took me to a place I once knew

A garden survivor that brings tears to my eyes

Raking leaves is a chore, but not if you leave them in place.

What’s happening in the garden this week: Oct. 27-Nov. 2

First frost signals doom for some plants, but not for all

What’s happening in the garden this week: Oct. 13-19

What’s happening in the garden this week: Oct. 6-12

How to make compost, and why it matters

What’s happening in the garden this week: Sept. 29-Oct. 5

We took down two trees. Thus began a year-long saga.

What’s happening in the garden this week: Sept. 22-28

What’s happening in the garden this week: Sept. 15-21

What’s happening in the garden this week: Sept. 8-14

Getting more out of your garden with a succession of plants

What’s happening in the garden this week: Sept. 1 - Sept. 7

What’s happening in the garden this week: Aug. 25-31

An overstory at the center of the garden

What’s happening in the garden this week: Aug. 18-24

What’s happening in the garden this week: Aug. 11-17

An allergy made me fear bees and wasps. Now they're my partners.

What’s happening in the garden this week: Aug. 4-10

What’s happening in the garden this week: July 28-August 3

Celebrating a garden's successes

What’s happening in the garden this week: July 21-27

Planting a fall garden

What’s happening in the garden this week: July 14-20

What’s happening in the garden this week: July 7-13

Garlic's annual big reveal can be unnerving

What’s happening in the garden this week: June 30-July 6

What’s happening in the garden this week: June 23-29

How I learned to part ways with my plants

What's happening in the garden this week

Helping your vegetable garden survive the heat

What's happening in the garden this week

Battling slugs in the garden by playing the long game

What's happening in the garden this week

My infatuation with blueberries, explained

A fledgling story takes a strange twist

What's happening in the garden this week

I've grown attached to our scarecrow

How to grow tomatoes in straw bales

More of my favorite gardening books

I met a bear (and lived to tell the tale)

How my driveway became a tomato Eden

Cloak-and-dagger in the garden

Want to grow asparagus? Be patient

Growing a pollinator meadow

A worn, mud-stained gardening book tells you something. It's good.

The sun, the moon and life's many cycles

Where's spring?

An annual itch to start seeds

No till, no dig

My first garden

March Madness this is not