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Like sprouts, radish, beet and other young greens make nutritious salad additions.
A garden filled with flowers will brighten up and enliven any landscape.
By late season, powdery mildew can make a garden look more urgent than it is. The familiar white coating may be covering leaves on a cucumber that is still producing, a spent squash vine headed for the compost pile, or
Fall cleanup makes a pair of shears feel almost mandatory. A shrub looks uneven after summer growth; a tree branch crosses the walk; spent flowers and leaves make everything seem ready to cut back. But most fall pruning is not
Rosemary does not have one universally safe winter plan. In a mild climate it may stay outdoors; in a colder or wetter one, the same plant can fail from frozen roots, winter wind, or a soggy root zone. A large
Fall is often an excellent tree planting season because air is cooler and soil can still support root growth. But “plant in fall” is not a command to put every nursery tree in the ground on the last workable weekend.
Fall cleanup is when a garden is easiest to misremember. By spring, the crowded corner has become “the sunny bed,” the struggling zucchini has become “a bad variety,” and the irrigation leak has vanished from memory. A short photo walk
A web in a tree can look alarming from the driveway, but it is not automatically a reason to spray. First, read the web: when you see it and where it sits on the branch usually tell you more than
“Before the first frost” is not enough information to decide whether to overseed. Grass seed needs time to germinate, develop roots, and form a small but resilient plant before winter. A bag of seed can still germinate in warm soil
Fall lawn work is often sold as a package: aerate, overseed, fertilize, and expect a fresh green reset. That package makes sense only when the lawn is a cool season turf with enough growing weather left, compacted soil or thin
A crowded perennial border can make fall feel like the obvious time to divide everything. But a spade is not a seasonal reset button. Dividing cuts roots, asks a plant to rebuild them, and puts the new pieces at the
A brown perennial bed can look like one big fall chore. It is not. Some material is worth removing promptly, some can be shortened when it flops into a path, and some earns its winter place as seed, structure, or
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