Growing advice, seasonal how-tos, and recipes from master gardener Andy Wilcox. A new article lands here every week.
You’ve decided to add some vertical elements to your garden. It’s a great way to step up your design and enhance your garden experience. But you’d like something different. Some perennials and annuals are classic trellis or arbor...
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November 25, 2025
All summer long, you peeked under the leaves, watching them get bigger and bigger. As summer drew to a close, they turned colors, wonderful blues, tans, oranges, and deepest greens. The...
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November 18, 2025
You’ve cared for your young flowering crabapple all spring, summer, and fall. But failing to protect it in winter could be a fatal mistake for your tree or shrub. Rabbits, deer,...
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November 13, 2025
Key Takeaways The best gardening gifts combine practicality and personalization, think premium seed collections, stylish planters, and ergonomic tools. Personalized items, such as engraved garden markers or custom pots, add a...
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November 11, 2025
In this day of screens, podcasts, social media, and video, I still find a good gardening book to be both enjoyable and a valuable resource. Many of us garden because we...
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October 28, 2025
How long would it take you to count to a million? How about 100 million? No cheating, counting by ten or one hundred at a time. When we hear huge numbers...
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October 28, 2025
Key Takeaways: Collect seeds from your healthiest, best-tasting tomatoes to preserve unique flavors and strong genetics. Fermenting removes the gel coating and helps prevent disease, producing clean, viable seeds. Let seeds...
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October 21, 2025
Put away your tools, my mother would remind me when I was done helping her in the garden. Keeping tools properly stored is part of good garden tool maintenance, but there...
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October 15, 2025
I have a half dozen cute little notebooks, all with the purpose of becoming a garden journal. This year, I'll finally keep good notes, I promise myself. I'll make entries about...
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