9 Essential Winter Garden Tasks to Prepare for Spring
In the early days of my gardening, I thought that winter garden tasks were pretty limited. Rake up the dead plants, mix some compost into the soil, and then hibernate …
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7 Gardening Subscription Boxes to Give as Gifts
My daughter has a number of subscription boxes, from sensory play boxes to kid chef boxes. Before our dog passed, he even had a subscription box! My social media feed …
10+ Food Gardening Gadgets We Love
Gardening is only work if you make it! Maybe it's because I'm an elder-millennial, but I am totally fine with scoping out the latest gardening gadgets. Sure, I've wasted plenty …
You Never Know What You’re Going to Dig Up
It's true that you never know what you'll dig up, but most of the time when you dig deep into a garden, all you discover is rock or clay. One …
A Real Gardener
Ever since I first read about Vita Sackville-West’s white garden at Sissinghurst, I had to create one of my own. She was my definition of a real gardener—writing in the …
“The Waiting is the Hardest Part”
As I have previously recounted in these pulse-pounding pages, the amazingly talented Hall of Fame ballplayer Rogers Hornsby (third-best batting average in all of baseball history!) was once asked by …
5 Hacks for Watering a Container Garden
There's probably not a gardener among us who doesn't have a few stories of the zucchini they overwatered or the tomatoes that cracked because they let it dry too much …
15 Cute Gardening Books for Preschoolers
My daughter is just about at that age where she really loves reading with me. For a while there I thought she might just be meant for parkour or extreme …
Cats in the Garden
What makes a true garden cat? I would say one who accompanies the gardener on his or her rounds, helpfully dispatches grasshoppers (but not birds or butterflies), stays within boundaries—and …
How to Make Easy Kitchen Scrap Fertilizer
If you've looked through the Food Gardening Network website, you know we love composting. We've written articles about keeping animals out of your compost bins, how to compost indoors, what …
