Get Your Desert Landscaping Ready for Winter
So much gardening advice is based around four-season climates, but a sizable contingent of the United States is only now entering ideal gardening weather. If you live in a desert…
Why You Shouldn’t Wait to Aerate Your Lawn
Photo: arteagaser (Shutterstock) As you’re working your way through your fall gardening checklist, you may have questions about what to do to your lawn before winter sets in—like whether aerating…
Why You Might Actually Want a Grass Driveway
Cost-effective, erosion-proof, and chemical-corralling, the mighty grass driveway doesn’t get the respect it deserves. But if you have rainwater rushing down your gravel driveway, washing away dirt or leaving trenches…
Grow a Clover Lawn That You Barely Have to Mow
Photo: Francesco Scatena (Shutterstock) If you have a grass lawn on your property, you already know how much they suck. Grass is fragile, fickle, and expensive to maintain. Lawns suck…
What If You Made Oatmeal in Your Rice Cooker?
Photo: Allie Chanthorn Reinmann Oatmeal lovers, I have good news for you. If you got excited when overnight oats were added to your groat repertoire, you might not be able…
How to Make Your Own Oat Flour (and Why You Should)
Photo: Anna_Pustynnikova (Shutterstock) Alternative flours aren’t going anywhere, nor should they. As tradition would have it, alternative ingredients are stupid…until they’re the best thing ever. Oat products fall in line…
How to Plant a Tapestry Lawn (and Why You Should)
Photo: ThomBal (Shutterstock) After decades of the assumption that a proper lawn must be made up of a single type of uniformly green—and freshly mown—grass, people are realizing that there…
When You Should Use Sugar on Your Lawn (and When You Shouldn’t)
Photo: Sashko (Shutterstock) Those who opt to plant and maintain traditional lawns may like the look of the lush, green grass surrounding their home, but don’t necessarily want to use…
How to Kill Your Lawn (and Why You Might Want To)
Photo: CapturePB (Shutterstock) The lawn occupies a fascinating niche of American culture. The most-grown crop in the country, that patch of grass in your front yard offers nothing of practical…
How Often You Should Mow Your Lawn, Based on the Type of Grass You Have
Photo: StockWithMe (Shutterstock) Every adult has at least one “lawn person” in their social circle, and there’s a reason Lawn People are so obsessed: There are few things in this…