Stories and guides tagged Summer Care.
Everything was going perfectly in my vegetable garden this year. I started an early-maturing cabbage variety from seed indoors, transplanted them after the last...
Cucumbers can be the ultimate garden divas. You start them with love, build them beautiful trellises, and amend the soil with premium compost. They start out vi...
If you are like me, you probably spent most of last summer battling your lawn. You watered it, you fertilized it, and you mowed it constantly, only to watch it...
If you have an older summer cabin, a garden shed, or a closed-in patio, you probably know the exact smell I am talking about. It is that heavy, damp, "old b...
When your backyard berry bushes finally explode with fruit, it is an amazing feeling—until you realize you have to figure out where to store it all.Growing up,...
We all want a gorgeous, magazine-worthy flower bed, but let’s be honest—nobody wants to spend their entire weekend pulling weeds, dividing temperamental roots,...
Summer is the hardest time to store a fresh root vegetable harvest. Your fridge is already packed, your basement or root cellar is too warm, and plastic storage...
If you are looking at your fading, heat-stressed marigolds with a hint of mid-summer sadness, it’s time to give your flower beds a second wind. July is the perf...
If you have spent any time cultivating a garden, you already know that ants are not the "helpful little workers" they are made out to be. While a few an...
Lugging heavy watering cans in the blazing summer heat is exhausting. But when my local district introduced strict summer watering restrictions (only allowing w...
If you grow strawberries, you know the heartbreak of the "overnight mush." You pick a gorgeous, ripe bowl of berries, set them in the fridge, and by the...
When I first bought my fixer-upper property and started turning the overgrown yard into a garden oasis, I thought I needed to spend a fortune on high-end irriga...