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Best Way to Select Herbs to Plant

When choosing herbs to plant, a primary consideration should be selecting the right plant for the right place. Selecting herbs that prefer sun for a corner of the garden that only offers shade, or planting a herb that likes fertile conditions in a patch of poor soil, will produce sickly… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Properly Water Your Plants

General anxiety about the decrease in annual rainfall over much of the country is already having one good result—a more thoughtful approach to the use of water. All too often, watering the garden is something people do because water is available.

Obviously, plants need water, but do they need as… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Plant Peonies and Poppies

Peonies and poppies, two of the outstanding plants of the June garden, must be planted at the end of the season instead of the beginning.

Oriental poppy roots are shipped from August on, when the plants are dor­mant; they do not survive handling at any time of year when in… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Move a Plant in Your Own Garden

There are all sorts of valid reasons for moving a plant. It may be growing too big and need to be moved further back. It may be a frail plant being overshadowed. It may be too similar in leaf texture to its neighbor. It may bloom at the wrong time… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Buy Vegetable Plant

When you want only a couple of tomato plants or a few lettuces for a container, it makes sense to buy them as young plants rather than raise your own from seed.

Most of the common vegetables are widely available in plant form, and the choice of varieties is generally… Continue Reading…