The best thing you can do for any plant in your garden is to water it deeply ahead of a freeze. Water acts as an insulator, ...

How to start a kitchen garden originally appeared on Dengarden. If you’re new to gardening and would like to grow your own food, you have quite a few options to consider. Should you just go all in and ...

I was a young gardener. Barely 13. Every spare moment that summer I’d spent tending my gardens, trying new plants I’d read about in catalogs, getting Mom and Dad to drop me off at what few nurseries ...

To begin, cut the grass in the area and cover it with cardboard or layers of newspaper to kill it. The paper will decompose ...

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