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This Old House
Roger Cook |
Smart Sprinkling When the skies are cloudless and the days are hot and long, you can help your lawn and garden survive by watering wisely   |
Popular Mechanics
June 1999 |
Rain Makers Watering effectively with a sprinkler is a simple, multistep process. First, choose a sprinkler that allows you to water as much area as possible without relocating it... |
This Old House
Marjorie E. Gage |
Reining in Water Use Ground rules for creating a lush yard that doesn't squander the available supply of H2O. |
This Old House
August 2007
Jeanne Huber |
11 Ways to Save Water, Time, and Money on Your Landscape Advice for conserving water, time, and money on your yard and garden. |
| National Gardening |
Corn Care Corn doesn't need any more attention than other garden vegetables, but it's a crop that can take up a fair amount of time if you plant a lot. Make it easier by combining tasks. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Soil Common Sense Five simple home tests for basic soil problems, with proven remedies |
Popular Mechanics
May 2003
Merle Henkenius |
Going For The Green How to replace your old lawn with luscious sod. |
This Old House
Ashley Womble |
Grass to Go Want a fantastic lawn? Sod it. Here's what you need to know to get the job done right. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2000
Joseph R. Provey |
Install a new lawn If your lawn suffers from acute soil compaction, rampant weed problems, heavy thatch or organic matter deficiencies, you may want to remove the existing weeds and grass and start anew. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2000
Joseph R. Provey |
Green Pastures Not all lawns that are in bad shape need to be replaced. A well-executed restoration plan can bring all but the worst turf back to life. |
| National Gardening |
Tools for Preparing the Garden Before a single plant even touches the ground in your garden, it would be wise to spend time preparing the soil. You'll have fewer weeds and diseases and better plant growth, flowering, and fruiting later. |
This Old House
Jeanne Huber |
Back to Nature The greenest approach to landscaping returns a yard to its roots. |
| National Gardening |
Soil Fertility 101 Just as a good foundation is necessary to support a building, good soil is necessary to build a successful garden. All soil is not alike. It differs in texture, fertility, and balance. |
This Old House
September 2007
Roger Cook |
Fall Groundwork "This is prime time to prep your yard for the next growing season," says our landscape contractor. |
Popular Mechanics
July 8, 2009 |
5 Tips for a Greener, Healthier Lawn You can learn more details about fertilizers, watering, and testing your soil. |
This Old House
Jeanne Huber |
Succulents: Ideal Plants for Summer Succulents thrive where most plants would shrivel. Here's how their ability to go days without water makes them ideal garden staples for the sweltering days of summer. |
| National Gardening |
Flea Beetle Flea beetles can spread diseases such as early blight to potatoes or bacterial wilt to corn, and larvae feed on roots. |
| Garden Gate |
Summer Escape: Planting Beneath Shade Trees If you've ever tried to grow a garden under a tree, you know that your plants have to compete with the tree's roots for space, water and nutrients. Here are some tips that can make growing a garden under a tree easier. |
Popular Mechanics
June 22, 2009
Harry Sawyers |
How To Irrigate Raised Garden Beds We were thrilled recently to visit an ambitious urban homestead near Philadelphia with an irrigation setup so simple anyone could install it. |
| National Gardening |
Caring for Potatoes Caring for potatoes requires proper watering, cultivating and hilling. |
| National Gardening |
Establishing a Wildflower Meadow A how-to guide for planting a wildflower meadow. |
| National Gardening |
Improve Soil Fertility with Compost A little soil common sense will go a long way to helping you understand how to care for your garden. All soils are not the same; they differ in many ways, including texture, fertility, and pH. |
National Gardening
Warren Schultz |
Building Great Soil Soil is the most important factor in successful gardening. Here are tips on evaluating and improving your soil. |
| National Gardening |
Plant Greens in Wide Rows Wide-row planting involves broadcasting seeds in a wide band, thus creating thicker rows with fewer paths in between. Not all vegetables, of course, are meant for wide rows. |
| National Gardening |
Preventing Rose Diseases It's no surprise that roses are among the most popular ornamental garden plants: they're beautiful, fragrant, and easy to grow in most climates. |
This Old House
Keith Pandolfi |
Green Acres How to break your lawn's addition to synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides. |
| National Gardening |
Maintaining a Vegetable Garden Healthy, vigorous vegetable plants produce the most flavorful and bountiful harvests. Give your garden plants the moisture and nutrients they need, and keep them weeded and harvested for tasty and nutritious crops. |
| National Gardening |
Improving Clay Soil If your garden has heavy clay soil, you know what a challenge it can pose to plants, not to mention gardeners. Heavy clay drains slowly, meaning it stays saturated longer after rain or irrigation. |
This Old House
Sal Vaglica |
The Smartest Irrigation Controller You Can Buy The Eve smart controller aims to make irrigation both easier and smarter, and my sprinklers could use a boost of both. |
This Old House
Owen Dell |
Simple Lawn Care Routine Streamline your lawn-care routine for better turf with less work |
| National Gardening |
Planning a Low-Maintenance Landscape Landscapes that require minimum time and money to maintain require thoughtful planning and installation. So invest early in planning and structures, and you'll pay (and work) less later. |
National Gardening
Robert Kourik |
Gardening Fact or Fallacy? Though plants, soils and weather conditions are always evolving, it seems as if some gardening practices become embedded like fossils. |
| National Gardening |
Tools for Planting Using the right tools and the proper techniques will not only make planting less of a chore, but also a greater success. |
This Old House
Sal Vaglica |
All About Lawns Readers want to know how to grow a dense, healthy carpet of grass. Here, experts help you choose the right turf and the best way get the greenest lawn in the neighborhood. |
| National Gardening |
Lawn Care Techniques Keeping your lawn looking good isn't as hard as you may think. |
| National Gardening |
Maintaining Container Gardens These simple maintenance tasks will keep keep your patio planters and window boxes looking their best throughout the growing season and help cold-climate gardeners prepare for winter. |
| National Gardening |
Planting Groundcover Use low-growing perennial plants and shrubs as groundcovers to cover slopes and rough ground or to replace high-maintenance lawns. Choose plants that thrive in your particular soil and climate. |
National Gardening
Lynn Ocone |
Planning a Vegetable Garden How to design and build a vegetable garden that really works |
National Gardening
Barbara Richardson |
El Nino Forecast for Gardeners With drought conditions prevailing in nearly half the country this year, it's been a tough time for gardeners. There is some relief in sight for the southern half of the U.S. as the El Nino weather system moves in this fall and winter. |
| National Gardening |
Tool Time for Gardeners Many gardeners have their favorite tools, so it can be a challenge to find the perfect tool gift. Here are some ideas: Trowels... Shovels and Forks... Watering... etc. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2010
Jim Gorman |
6 Weeks To a Perfect Lawn Once it's started on improved soil, grass needs very little care to look crisp, green, cool and inviting. |
National Gardening
Skip Richter |
Turn Leaves into Gold These golden leaves can be turned into "black gold" for the garden. They make great soil-enriching compost or a protective mulch. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
New Crapemyrtles Crapemyrtles (Lagerstroemia) are often called the "lilacs of the south." They grace many homes with beautiful flowers in midsummer when few other shrubs are blooming. Although considered a southern plant, new varieties of crapemyrtle have proven hardy in colder climates. |
| National Gardening |
Preparing Soil for Greens When it's early in the season and nearly time to plant a host of greens, put in a little time with your garden soil to prevent weed problems. |
| National Gardening |
Planting a Window Box Combine flowering plants and those with attractive foliage in window boxes to add color to decks, window sashes, and porch rails. |
This Old House
Lance Walheim |
What's Bugging Your Lawn? Even if your lawn is almost weed-free, it can suffer from problems that affect both its appearance and its health. From grubs to dogs, here's what to do about them. |
| National Gardening |
Fall Garden Cleanup Q and A Here are some questions we've received about fall cleanup in the garden, along with the answers given by our regional horticulture staff. |
| National Gardening |
Planting Strawberries Strawberries will do best in soil that has been thoroughly prepared. If your future strawberry bed was plowed last year, you're ahead of the game. |
This Old House
Ryan Robbins |
Flowering Bulbs Follow these tips for highly varied, low-maintenance flowering bulbs you can plant in the fall and enjoy every spring. For additional information check out the web sites at the end of the article. |
This Old House
Ashley Womble |
New Gear for Roses There's a new crop of tools on the market specifically designed for cultivating the thorny beauties. |
