Halloween is five days out, which means in less than a week you’re going to have a slowly collapsing pumpkin…
Every October, millions of homeowners spend a Saturday wrestling leaves into bags, hauling them to the curb, and paying (with…
If there’s one task that quietly separates the gardeners who eat home-grown garlic next summer from the ones buying the…
Every October, garden centers roll out their bulb displays and everyone rushes home to jam tulips in the ground the…
Halloween is five days out, which means in less than a week you’re going to have a slowly collapsing pumpkin sitting on your porch wondering what its purpose was for. Most people just haul it to the curb with the trash once it starts looking sad. That’s a waste — literally. A carved pumpkin is…
Every October, millions of homeowners spend a Saturday wrestling leaves into bags, hauling them to the curb, and paying (with their tax dollars or their backs) to have them hauled away. Meanwhile, a few miles away, some gardener is quietly turning that exact same stuff into the best soil amendment money can’t buy. It’s called…
If there’s one task that quietly separates the gardeners who eat home-grown garlic next summer from the ones buying the sad papery bulbs at the grocery store, it’s this: mid-October, give or take a couple weeks depending on your zone, is go time for planting garlic. Not spring. Spring garlic planting is a consolation prize…
Every October, garden centers roll out their bulb displays and everyone rushes home to jam tulips in the ground the same weekend. I get it, there’s something satisfying about checking a task off the list. But if you plant too early, you’re setting yourself up for leggy, confused sprouts poking up before winter even arrives,…
Dahlias have been showing off all summer, and if yours are anything like mine, they’re still going strong right now. That’s the tricky part. Everything looks fine until one night it isn’t, and a surprise frost turns those gorgeous tubers to mush underground before you even had a chance to save them. Late September is…
If you’ve walked past a flower bed this week and spotted a cluster of pink or lavender blooms shooting straight out of bare dirt, with zero leaves anywhere in sight, you’ve met colchicum. Also called autumn crocus, also (delightfully) called naked ladies, this bulb does the one thing almost no other plant does: it blooms…
