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The world of gardening is as vast as the imagination of each of us gardeners can make it. These reports highlight some of nature’s surprises.

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Dense carpet of flowering creeping thyme smothering weeds between garden stepping stones in summer

You’re Using Mulch to Kill Weeds — But These Flowering Plants Do It Better and Never Stop

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Bumblebee feeding on purple lavender flowers in a sunny summer garden

How to Turn Your Garden into a Bee and Butterfly Haven

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Vibrant drought-tolerant garden border with lavender, sedum and ornamental grasses in full summer bloom

The Garden That Waters Itself: Drought-Tolerant Plants That Look Spectacular All Summer

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A small garden bird drinking from a shallow stone bird bath on a hot summer day

Garden Birds in a Heatwave: How to Help Them Survive Extreme Heat

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Lavender and rosemary plants wilting in dry summer garden with cracked soil around roots

You’re Watering Your Mediterranean Plants Wrong — And Summer Is Making It Worse

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Close-up of rose leaves showing black spot disease with yellowing and dark fungal lesions

Black Spots, Rust, Powdery Mildew on Roses: Fix All Three This Summer

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Gardener sprinkling used coffee grounds around tomato plant base in summer garden

Are You Putting Coffee Grounds on Your Garden Plants All Wrong This Summer?

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Vibrant pink hibiscus and orange bird of paradise blooming together in a sunny tropical garden

The 5 Tropical Plants Most Gardeners Kill by Accident (And Exactly How to Save Them)

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Vibrant desert garden showcasing various succulents and cacti.

Drought-Tolerant Plants: A Complete Guide to a Thriving, Water-Wise Garden

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Winter Plant Covers

Tips For Protecting Plants In Winter

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Stone and wood garden ideas

Stone and Wood, warm companions for an inviting garden

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Which flowers to plant along edges

Ideas for plants along borders and edges

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Choosing the right garden shredder

Garden shredder buying guide: zero-bias guidelines

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Guttating plants

Why do some plants have dewdrops and not others?

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Guttation and dew

What is inside a dewdrop? Is it dangerous? Can you drink it?

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Ramial chipped wood

Ramial Chipped Wood, the best mulch straight from the forest

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Mulch mats from biodegradable material

Biodegradable mulch fabrics: your new BFF for the garden

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Christmas tree fir or spruce

Nordmann or Spruce, what’s the best natural Christmas tree?

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List of plants that are toxic for cats

10 cat-killing plants in house and garden

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How to landscape a mound or berm

Ugly mound in the garden? Wonderful ideas to landscape it!

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Should you use plastic sheeting for growing beds

Our take on plastic cheating –oops– sheeting, sorry

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Woodlouse, a useful garden animal

Woodlouse, who would’ve guessed roly-polys were so useful?

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Rainwater collection systems

Rainwater systems: determine the size and design you need

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Urine, excellent garden fertilizer

Urine for fertilizer, go from pissing poor to liquid gold!

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Hoeing, why hoe and how

A run of the hoe saves two of the hose! Why and how to hoe

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Bioindicator plants soil pH

Test your soil pH with plants

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Irrigation systems for garden

Garden water systems to make life easier… and plants happier!

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What to plant in often flooded gardens

Oft-flooded garden? Plant these water lovers!

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Spading fork, digging fork

Spading fork, a sturdy tool for down-to-earth gardeners

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Broadfork, grelinette

Broadfork, a toothy soil turner that harms neither bug… nor back!

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Plants that love limestone soil

Plants that love that most dreaded of soils – limestone

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Chicken manure fertilizer

Chicken droppings, truly a blessing in disguise: free fertilizer!

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earthworm

Worms, welcome wonderful wrigglers!

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Horse manure

Horse manure, why gardeners love this sh*t over all others

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Use manure in the garden

Manure, give this sh*t a thought… it’s great for plants!

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Ants, useful in the garden

Ants, life in the garden and life of the party!

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Using seaweed in a vegetable garden

Seaweed, great fertilizer for the veggie garden

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Shrew

Shrew, a cute and helpful fellow in the garden

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WWoof how to try

How to WWOOF? Three steps to start trying it out

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WWOOF definition

What is WWOOF? A farm experience based on sharing!

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Reasons why to try wwoof

3 powerful reasons to try WWOOF

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Where to wwoof

Great places to WWOOF, how to find the right spot

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Wwoofing host in France

WWoofing as a host: a great experience

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Samantha, an experienced wwoofer

Hear it straight from the Wwoofer’s mouth! Samantha’s WWOOFING experience

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Plant breeder grower

Breeders and growers, bringing nature to each of us

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Avoid and block cross-pollination

How to avoid cross pollination

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improve pollination

How to improve cross-pollination

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Flowers abound on this low stone wall

Build a fabulous flower-filled stone wall in just 2 steps

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Dry garden landscaping

In dry gardens, landscaping works wonders

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Rice hulls turned into mulch at home

Home-made mulch, the DIY-solution is better than stores!

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Three different garden birds and how to identify them

Garden birds, learn to identify our singing and tweeting feathered garden friends

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