A word of advice: invest in perennials, those bare-root raspberries, currants, and plums felt expensive when we first began.

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Try modern landrace gardening techniques to create your own landrace vegetable seeds by overcoming challenging weather and ...

How do I treat powdery mildew? Managing white mildew on plants can be challenging. Learn a simple, natural way to keep it at ...

How do heavy metals get into soil? Heavy metals that are bad for plants can leach into the soil over time. Learn how to ...

Every now and then during one of my walks, someone will tell me that they have a headache. I peel off two slivers of bark from a willow tree, that ubiquitous plant of the streams, and hand it to them.

How can I dye textiles naturally? I’ve spent the past year learning how to create custom colors using marigold and coreopsis. I picked these two flowers because of their brilliant colors, though you ...

Enhance your garden with a backyard wildlife pond. Learn how to build a backyard pond and get tips for pond plants and wildlife pond-edging ideas. Having a water source, especially a pond, on your ...

The orchard of mayhaw trees at The Farm at Okefenokee. Learn how to grow mayhaw trees, a productive southern shrub that can be trained into small trees often found in wet areas such as wetlands, ...

Flush with cardboard, the author adopts the common practice of using it as a mulching medium. Is cardboard mulch toxic? Recent research shows PFAS can accumulate in crop vegetables. A simple home test ...

Learn how to build a sawdust stove for an efficient and clean burn while fueled by a material typically discarded as waste. Here is how to create one. As we who live in the industrialized nations of ...

The compost fence walls are great for composting yard waste while buffering noise and providing privacy. Here’s what to consider for constructing a compost fence, an ideal structure for composting ...