AS REGULAR READERS and listeners know, I’ve had a longtime interest in the organic seed movement, especially farm-based companies that grow at least some of..

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THE OTHER NIGHT I hosted an online class about shade gardening, featuring Ken Druse, whom I met in 1992-ish, almost exactly 30 years ago to..

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DID YOU MAYBE get, or give, a cookbook or two for a holiday gift? Well, hopefully you can make room on the shelf for another..

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UH-OH, NOW I’VE learned that there’s another plant I didn’t think I could grow in my Northern garden, but it sounds like I can. Hello,..

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ADD THIS TO the “Things I Didn’t Know” file…and by the way, merry Christmas. One of the most popular holiday trees of all, the Fraser..

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BEING AN ever-better gardener means staying open to change. As long as we’ve both been gardening, my friend Joe Lamp’l was saying to me the..

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WHEN KEN DRUSE and I talked on the program a couple of weeks ago about putting our tools away for the winter, all cleaned and..

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I’M EYEING A vintage glass cookie jar I haven’t used in years, and a big glass snifter, too, that’s been sitting idle on a shelf..

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SOME OF THE most beautiful and intricate creatures in the garden are not plants at all. A diversity of lichen is showing off right now..

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AUTHOR MARTA MCDOWELL, a gardener and landscape designer in contemporary New Jersey, has an enduring passion for digging into history, particularly into noted authors and..

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IT’S BEEN A strangely mild fall so far in the Northeast, where Ken Druse and I both garden. But as some recent overnight freezes served..

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DESIGNER DAVID CULP sees the garden in layers. But not just the most obvious landscape ones most of us do—meaning the canopy, the shrub layer..

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WHEN I SAW NEWS of a popular new garden book called “The Heirloom Gardener,” I thought it would be about growing vegetables or flowers of..

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WHAT ARE THE forward-looking steps in your fall garden routine—the most important tasks you take now to get your garden tucked in, that really focus..

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‘WHAT DO YOU want to talk about when we tape our next podcast segment, I asked Ken Druse the other day, and his answer was..

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HAVE YOU MADE room in the compost heap for all that incoming organic material about to be created during your fall cleanup? Compost is today’s..

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I’M ALWAYS LOOKING for more places to tuck native plantings. My current mission is along my property edges, where I’m adding a more complex layer..

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