Growing and Cooking Collards
January 18, 2016A once-popular cool-season crop, collards should become a mainstay in your garden.
Potager Gardening
January 18, 2016Build a potager garden and enjoy fresh, delectable food just steps away from your kitchen.
To Feed or Not to Feed?
February 26, 2015The East has faced a harsh winter, and all the wildlife is struggling to fill their bellies—but don’t get tempted to throw them a bone.
7 DIY Vertical Gardening Techniques for Healthier Veggies
May 29, 2014My favorite vertical gardening methods save space in the garden and help promote an abundant, disease-free harvest.
5 Ornamental Plants That Could Save Your Vegetables
April 25, 2014What’s the work without the play? Bring beauty and benefit to your vegetable garden by using these flowers as companion plants.
Take Advantage of Free Compost
January 23, 2014If you have a shovel and some buckets (or better still, a pickup truck), call your own municipality and ask if a pile of leaf compost is available to residents.
Gifts for Gardeners: Temporary Tool Storage
December 5, 2013If you are considering purchasing a holiday gift for the gardener in your life, there’s certainly no shortage of ideas; however, I’d like to offer you two other ideas for gifts, both targeted at simplifying your loved one’s gardening chores.
Green Spring Gardens in Photos
October 24, 2013Last weekend I had the opportunity to visit a beautiful public garden in Alexandria, Va. Twenty minutes from the Capitol Building, Green Spring Gardens is a National Historic Site originally donated to Fairfax County by its previous owners, Michael and Belinda Straight.
A Picture Tour of My Garden
August 22, 2013With the adequate rainfall and mild temperatures we’ve experienced this summer, it has been a great year for the garden.
5 Cover Crops for Your Small-scale Garden
July 8, 2013Think cover crops are just for mega-farms? These five crops will return nutrients to your backyard garden’s soil and keep weeds at bay.
