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…
All the Seeds You Should Be Saving Right Now for Next Year
Many gardeners are aspirational when it comes to saving seeds even if there are some good reasons to skip it. If you’re gardening year round, you don’t always have time…
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…
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…
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,…
Save Yourself From the Next ‘Jalapeño Gate’
Photo: Eakrat (Shutterstock) Many gardeners across the U.S. have found themselves embroiled in a controversy that’s been dubbed “jalapeño gate” in the press and on social media. Although it’s hard…
Save Money Gardening by Growing Your Own Perennials From Seed
Perennials are the returning summer guests that pop up with gifts each year. Plant them once and you’ll see them grow larger and more prolific every summer season. That’s the…
Why Those Half-Dead Plants Are Actually a Good Deal
I call it the “sad plant shelf” (or SPS for short), and I make a beeline to it at every nursery I visit. This is the place where nursery workers…
How to Move Your Seedlings Outside Without Killing Them
Welcome to Fake Spring, a time of high anxiety for gardeners all across the U.S. We’ve spent the winter consuming seed catalogs like porn, stalking garden centers like pervs, and…