Three Things I Do to Protect My Plants Before a Freeze
Much of the U.S. is entering freeze season—and I’m not talking a light morning frost, but a full-on freeze, which is a transformative event for your garden. While ideally we’d…
How to Choose the Best Fall Fertilizer for Anything in Your Garden
Fall is one of the three times of year you fertilize. When plants are ready to wake up in spring, you surprise them with a brunch of nitrogen-rich plant food…
Don’t Prune These Bushes in the Fall
Fall brings out my outdoor neat freak. I feel an intense need to get things buttoned up in the yard before the cold hits. After the annuals and vegetables have…
How to Start Indoor Gardening This Winter
I love a garden-ripe tomato, but my gardening goals also include avoiding a run to the grocery store. I want to always be able to pull fresh herbs out of…
You Should Recycle the Potting Soil From Your Dead Plants
In a corner of your local nursery, hidden way in the back, is a worker dumping out an endless stream of dead plants into a pile, and tossing the plastic…
The Fall Yard Cleanup Tasks You Should Tackle in September
Fall is majestic. Don’t get me wrong, I live in anticipation of summer and the growing season, but Fall is the season that never lets me down. In the Pacific…
Buy These Garden Essentials on Sale Before Fall
Sometime last week, the season turned. The heat broke with a dramatic rainstorm, and although it returned to 80 degree days after, it was clear summer was at its end.…
How to Overwinter Your Tomato Plants
The true measure of any home gardener is their first tomato. Not just any tomato, but one of those giant heirloom slicers, which they will display with smug self satisfaction…
How to Overwinter Your Pepper Plants
One of the pains of gardening is that with annual vegetables, you have to start over each year. Sure, you move forward with the accumulated knowledge of gardening years past,…
You Should Divide These Perennials in Late Summer
Perennials—the plants that come back year after year—are always worth the investment. But you can save even more on that investment by simply dividing the plants that are already in…