Planning Raised Beds for Your Garden
So you've decided to start planning raised beds for your garden, but aren't sure where to start? Good news, I went through a pretty elaborate garden transformation just last year …
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A Beginner Gardener Gets Her Markers
Ah, to be a beginner gardener. I remember those days. I think I even proclaimed to have a black thumb when I was young when really all I had was …
Comparing 3 Different Makes of Garden Tools Bond vs. Radius vs. Prohoe
Ever go shopping for a car? From a distance, they all are more or less the same. They have four wheels, a driver’s seat and room for passengers. There’s an …
How to Create a Living Wall Herb Garden Inside Your Home
Every time I use fresh herbs in a recipe, I say out loud (sometimes to no one in particular), “It’s the fresh herbs that make this dish!” There’s no substitution. …
Introduction to The Case of the Mystery Shrub
The Great Gardening Detective Agency (Now Accepting New Cases!)
If there’s one thing we’ve learned at GreenPrints, it’s that humor sprouts abundantly whenever seasoned gardeners interact with non-gardeners—or, even better, non-gardeners who …
Plants are People, Too
Plants are people too, you know! I mean, maybe not exactly. I've never heard one talk, though maybe their mouths are just so tiny we can't hear them. What I …
The Advice Almanac
“I’m just saying, I don’t believe in the almanac. You’re saying they plan the dates in the almanac based on the planets. The planets are in space; they're not down …
My Retirement Garden
“In the year 2000, do you think we’ll still be alive?” Fourteen-year-old me was chatting with my girlfriends in 1972 about a date so far in the future it seemed …
Planting Life Lessons
We moved north where the colder climate must have been jarring to the constitution of my young parents who grew up in the sunny climate of the sweltering South where …
Rupp on Rocks
We put in a strawberry patch this year. Nothing huge, you understand: maybe 4 feet by 20, a nice strip along the fence on the upper side of the barn. …
