Planting two or more veggies together, known as intercropping, can have many positive effects in your garden. It can change the growing conditions for the plants.
Grow Better Vegetables with Intercropping
Garden Design
Creating Year-Round Interest in the Garden
by Kathy Diemer Whether novice or experienced gardeners, we all strive for gardens that look good no matter the season. And that is indeed a challenge. What can we do to maintain some structure and color when the temperatures hover … Read Article
The Advantages of Permeable Hardscapes
What is permeable hardscape and why/where would I use it?
Garden Design Tips from a Desert Garden
Get inspired by these great tips from Tucson gardener Tag Merrick on how to make your garden exceptional:
Bottle Trees: Homemade Garden Art Rooted in Superstition
What can you tell me about bottle trees? I have only seen one in my area (New England) and frankly I don’t get it.
Fall Gardening Tip: Edging the Garden’s Beds and Borders
Take a few minutes this fall to clean up the edges of your garden’s beds and borders.
Hedges vs. Screens
What is the difference between a hedge and a screen?
Where to Plant Flower Bulbs: Tips on Spacing and Siting
Here are tips on placing bulbs in the garden so that they grow well and look their best, too:
Tips for Grouping Pots
An assortment of potted succulents can make a beautiful garden for a patio, deck or courtyard—especially if you apply basic design principles to the entire grouping.
Creative Garden Uses for Terracotta Pots
This week’s gardening tip is excerpted from Handmade Garden Projects (Timber Press, 2011) by Lorene Edwards Forkner. My collection of hundreds of small terracotta pots once belonged to a friend and next door neighbor. Gordon was a nursery man of … Read Article
Tips for Success with Structures
The following tip of the week is excerpted from The Nonstop Garden (Timberpress, 2010) by Stephanie Cohen and Jennifer Benner.