Tilling Like It’s 1899 – it’s Human-Powered!
Guest post by David The Good For years I rented rototillers or—more expensively—owned gas tillers of my own. There’s nothing like tearing up a big patch of ground until your [...]
Guest post by David The Good For years I rented rototillers or—more expensively—owned gas tillers of my own. There’s nothing like tearing up a big patch of ground until your [...]
Guest Rant by David The Good As I emptied buckets of human waste into a bin filled with red wigglers, the realization hit me: I had reached peak compost. This [...]
Guest Post by Wendy Kiang-Spray Usually, when I look out my kitchen window this time of year, I look forward to the delicate, pale purple-topped baptisia that will delight me [...]
Guest rant by Nancy J. Parisi Right now, sprinkled throughout sections of vast Death Valley National Park, are swaths of color standing out from the usual palette of faded greens, [...]
Summer in Vander Veer Botanical Park Guest Rant by Linda Larson, A Traveling Gardener This just in: Iowa has beautiful gardens and parks, with grand trees, roses, hostas, [...]
Guest post by Irvin Etienne Fall. A time of the year I love and hate. Love most of the weather. Love the clear blue sky and bright orange autumn leaves. [...]
Today's Guest Rant by Irvin Etienne takes us down memory lane to a happy rediscovery. I recently got back a plant that I killed several years ago. Not THE same [...]
This guest post by Susan Rademacher is a fond reminiscence of garden makers Jim van Sweden and Wolfgang Oehme on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Bold Romantic Gardens. [...]
Today's Guest Rant by famed garden photographer Saxon Holt gives a tantalizing hint of what's offered in his new e-book Good Garden Photography... and we're giving away TWO COPIES of [...]
Guest Rant by Claire Jones Butterfly Bush, Buddleia davidii, has been widely bashed from garden writers, ecologists, and conservationists. Attacked from all sides by master gardeners and other garden professionals, [...]
Guest Post by David McMullin The first thing I did after I bought the farm was quit mowing the grass. The property is ten acres with a nice rolling aspect, [...]
Guest Rant by Lori Hawkins Just as Dante identified the seven deadly sins in his Inferno, so we will explore the cardinal sins of the landscaping world. Lust, Gluttony, Greed, [...]