The Best Ways to Keep Seeds Organized and Stored All Year
Eventually at some point in your gardening journey, you’re going to run into a predictable problem—where to store all your damn seeds. At first, a box or stack will do,…
Layer Your Bulbs in Planters to Get Months of Flowers
Planters are fantastic: They’re mobile, easy to install anywhere, and come in different heights. If you plant bulbs in the planters, you get a great pop of color for a…
The Best Way to Save Your Own Seeds
Saving seeds seems hard to do, until you’ve actually done it. But with the cost of a packet of seeds now ranging from $4 to $10, the financial incentive is…
Why Your Flower Stems Have Gone Crooked (and How to Straighten Them Out Next Year)
One of my favorite TikTok gardeners, GardeningGrant, complained earlier this summer about cockeyed liatris, a normally straight-as-an-arrow perennial. I had heard this complaint in a few other places about other…
It’s Time to Stop Watering Your Garden This Fall
Put the watering can down: It’s the end of the season and all that watering you’ve been doing is now just habit. Even before the rain starts, it’s time to…
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 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…
Now Is the Best Time to Seed Your Lawn
Gardening season is winding down, but the time for planting and growing is not nearly over. If you have a grass lawn, one of the main outdoor tasks on your…