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Benefits of Gardening

Benefits of Gardening
Gardening For Health
Gardening In Our Communities and Schools
Gardening Organically
Gardening Sustainably
Greening Our Landscapes
Greening the Indoors
Growing the Most Nutritious Vegetables
Playful Activities in the Garden
Power of Gardening: Local and Global
Something's Always New In the Garden

Bulbs

Berries
Perennial Delight: Strawberries
Perennial Delight: Strawberries
Prune Cane Berries
Pruning Fruit Trees and Berries
Pruning Fruit Trees and Vines
Pruning Fruits & Berries
Time to Prune

Bugs

The Good Bugs and the Bad Bugs

Bulbs

Everyone Plant Your Bulbs
Flower Bulbs – Some In, Some Out
Pairing Bulbs with Perennials and Annuals

Butterflies

Bt and Monarches

Community Gardening

Community Garden Management
Gardening In Our Communities and Schools
Playful Activities in the Garden

Compost and Mulch

Bag Your Compost
Compost – Your Plants Will Love You For It
Discarded Fall Colors Become Garden Gold
Garden Gold
Garden Tidbits – Ferns, Fertilizer,
Beneficial Insects, Interplanting, Composting
Much Ado about Mulch
Mulch for Low Maintenance
Mulch Your Garden For Magic Growth
Organic Manures, Mulches, and Composts – Use These Natural Recyclables and Your Garden Will Outproduce Itself

Container & Limited-Space Gardening

Big Gardens in Small Spaces
Container Garden Inspiration
Container Gardening
Containers Expand the Garden Anytime
Get Fired Up About Container Planting
Hanging Moss Baskets – Floating Islands of Color
Intensive, Double-Decker Veggies and Flowers
Not Yet Time to Settle Back in the Garden
Sow Lots of Veggie Seeds in Both Pots and In Soil
Starting Seeds In Containers and In The Garden
Terra Cotta Pottery – There Is A Difference

Drought Gardening

Clippings, Cuttings, Rootings, Sharings = Free Garden Colorful, Low-Fuss Landscaping
Combining Plants
Drought and Neglect: Some Plants Love Them!
Drought Gardening – No Scorched Earth for My Landscape!
Getting the Garden Ready for Dry Weather
Irrigation – Five Guidelines to Satisfy Your Garden’s Needs
No-Guilt Gardening During Our Continuing Drought
Teach Plants to Drink Deeply
Teach Plants to Grow Deeply for Water
Water Conservation Tips
Water Deeply So Plant Roots Grow Deeply
Water, Precious (and Expensive) Water!
Watering In Drought Times
Xeri – What?

Fall Gardening

A Three-Season Harvest of Peas
Add A Tree To Your Yard
Another New Garden To Start – Yes, In August!
Bulb Planting Time
Bulb Time in the Garden Bulbs for Holiday Forcing and for Spring Bloom
Buy Bulbs ASAP!
California Poppies and Our Good Life
Checklist for Fall Flower Garden
Choosing Crops in Rotation
Choosing Tools
Cooling Down and Slowing Down
Discarded Fall Colors Become Garden Gold
Everyone Plant Your Bulbs
Fall Already?
Fall and Winter Harvest
Fall Color Means Mums
Fall Garden Work
Fall Is For Seeding
Fall Planting Time
Fall So Soon?
Fall Tree Care
Fall Tree Care Tips
Fall Vegetable Gardening
First Seeding for Fall and Winter
Foliage Trees for Fall Color
Gardening For Health
Getting Seeds Started
Glorious Garlic!
Great Rain!
Greening Our Landscapes
Halloween From the Garden
Harvest Time!
Harvesting: The Great Delight
Harvesting and Sowing
Harvesting Potatoes and Squash
Harvesting Winter Keepers
How An Active Fall Garden Might Look
Integrated Pest Management
Intensive, Double-Decker Veggies and Flowers
It’s Fall Planting Time!
Looking Forward to Cool Weather
More Hot-Weather-Loving Pests -- Leafhoppers, Leafminers, Loopers and Caterpillars, and Mites
Nature’s Foliage for Thanksgiving Decorations
November Isn't Just for Cleaning Up!
Pairing Bulbs with Perennials and Annuals
Perennial Delight: Strawberries
Plan Ahead for a Fall Harvest
Planning the Cool-Season Veggie Garden
Plant Long-Term Garden Color
Planting Strawberry Fields
Plants for Fall Color
Plotting and Transplanting the Cool-Season Garden
Putting Roses to Rest
Seed Saving Savvy
September's Garden Joys
September's Gardening Delights
September's Magic Mildness
September's New Beginnings
Shifting From Summer Garden to Winter Garden
Sowing the Fall-Through-Spring Garden
Spring Blooms for Winter Holidays – Prepare Bulbs Now For Indoor Forcing
Starting the “Cold” Garden In the Hot Weather
Starting the New Garden Slowly
Starting To Think of the Fall and Winter Garden
Suddenly, It's Fall!
The Calm After Our Last (?) Blistering Heat
The Colors of Fall and Winter
The Fall Vegetable Garden
Time for Serious Fall Gardening
Time to Sow
Transition in the Garden
Transplanting Time!

Fruit Trees

Add A Tree To Your Yard
Avocado
Care of Fruit Trees
Dormant Fruit Tree Spraying
Dormant Spray for Tree Pests
Dormant Spray Schedule
Early Spring Fruit Tree Tips
Early Summer Care for Fruit Trees and Vines
Fabulous Fruit Trees
Fruit Tree Planting
Fruit Trees and Vines
Growing Fruit Trees
It’s Arbor Day!
Last Summer Fruit Tree Pruning
Late Spring Tree Care
More Winterizing of the Garden
Our Real Winter
Plant Tender Trees
Plant Trees
Pruning
Pruning Fruit Trees
Pruning Fruit Trees and Berries
Pruning Fruit Trees and Vines
Spring Care For Fruit Trees
Summer Fruit Tree Care
Summer Fruit Trees
Time for Tree Planting
Trees' First Spring Growth
Trees Inside and Outside
Trees, Nature's Air Filter
Winter Dormant Pruning
Winter Fruit Tree Sprays
Winterizing the Garden
Hot Weather Watering and Fertilizing
Midsummer Watering and Feeding
Transplanting Time!

Gifts From the Garden

Gifts and Crafts From the Garden
Garden Crafts Galore
Garden-Inspired Gifts
Giving From the Garden
Halloween From the Garden
Holiday Décor From Your Garden
Holiday Decorations You Can Make Yourself From the Garden – Wreaths, Garlands, Valance Hangings and Table Decorations
Make Your Own Wreath or Garland
My Holiday Decorations
New Garden Toys and Techniques
Playful Activities in the Garden
Wreath Making – Construction

Herbs

Herbs
Anise
Arugula
Basil
Chives
Chives: The Delicate Onion
Cilantro
Cilantro or Coriander or Mexican Parsley or Chinese Parsley?
Dill
Harvesting Herbs
Harvesting True Saffron
Marjoram
Oregano, Winter Marjoram, Wild Marjoram, Pot Marjoram
Rosemary
Sage
Tarragon
Thyme
Winter Planting

Indoors Gardening

Greening the Indoors
Summer Indoors Needn’t Be Drearily Plantless
Trees Inside and Outside

Irrigation

Irrigation
Deep Watering
Drought Gardening – No Scorched Earth for My Landscape!
Great Rain!
Hot Weather Watering and Fertilizing
How Much to Irrigate?
Irrigation – Five Guidelines to Satisfy Your Garden’s Needs
Midsummer Watering and Feeding
Midsummer Watering for Highest Yields
No-Guilt Gardening During Our Continuing Drought
Not Yet Time to Settle Back in the Garden
Rain, Rain, Go Away
Summer Watering
Teach Plants to Drink Deeply
Teach Plants to Grow Deeply for Water
Water Conservation Tips
Water Deeply So Plant Roots Grow Deeply
Water, Precious (and Expensive) Water!
Watering In Drought Times
Xeri – What?

Lawn

The Smaller the Lawn, the Better

Ornamental Plants and Trees

Berries
Ornamental Plants and Trees
Add A Tree To Your Yard
Brugsmania
California Poppies and Our Good Life
Chard: Edible Ornamental
Checklist for Fall Flower Garden
Colorful, Low-Fuss Landscaping
Combining Plants
Ending One Year and Beginning the Next – With Color!
Everyone Plant Your Bulbs
Fall Color Means Mums
Fall Tree Care
Fall Tree Care Tips
Flower for the Whole Summer
Flower Bulbs – Some In, Some Out Flowers for Fall
Foliage Trees for Fall Color
Foolproof Perennials for the Annuals-Lover
Fragrant Roses
Fuchsias Love Cacti?
Garden Tidbits – Ferns, Fertilizer, Beneficial Insects, Interplanting, Composting
Glorious Ground Cover
Glorious Spring Color
Growing Edible Flowers
Hanging Moss Baskets – Floating Islands of Color
Heat-Loving Plants Galore!
In The Heat of Transplanting
Integrated Pest Management
Intensive, Double-Decker Veggies and Flowers
It’s Arbor Day!
It’s Fall Planting Time!
Last Transplanting
Late Spring Tree Care
Less-Common Bloomies For the Gloomies
Lilies Galore
Live Holiday Color Indoors
Live Holiday Decorations
Live Trees For Indoor Holiday Decorating
Love Those Annual Posies!
Mid-Summer Care for Bloomers
Midsummer Watering and Feeding
Modern Roses for Fragrance
Monthly Flower Sowing/Transplanting List – Botanical and Common Names
More Winterizing of the Garden
My Holiday Decorations
Pairing Bulbs with Perennials and Annuals
Perennials – The Lazy Gardener’s Choice
Plant Long-Term Garden Color
Plant Trees
Planting Bare-Root Roses
Plants for Fall Color
Pruning
Roses Are Easy
Roses, Wonderful Roses
Shirley Poppies
Storebought Houseplant Poinsettias Can Bloom Again
Succulents Make Great Personalized Living Gifts
The Colors of Fall and Winter
Time for Tree Planting
Transitioning the Flower Garden
Transplanting Time!
Tree Time
Trees Inside and Outside
Trees, Nature's Air Filter
When Good Plants Go Bad
Winter Dormant Pruning
Winter Planting
Winterizing the Garden

Poisonous Plants

Lethal Plants – Common Deadly Plants, Their Toxic Parts, and the Effects of Eating Them

Preserving the Garden's Excess

Preserving Tips
Start Preserving the Overload
Storing Your Harvest

Problems – Diseases and Pests

Beasties That Can Plague Your Garden – And What You Can Do Organically – (The Big Guys, Bats to Bees to Mosquitos and Squirrels)
Beasties That Can Plague Your Garden – And What You Can Do Organically – (The Little Guys, Ants to Earwigs to Slugs and Snails)
Cleaning Our Gardens Naturally – Organic Approaches to Insect Bites and Pests, and Insecticidal Soaps
Cleaning Our Homes Naturally – Using Natural Substances to Clean Indoors Cleaning Our Homes and Gardens Naturally
Common Problems With Brassicas
Continuing With The Bad Bugs – Earwigs, Flea Beetles, and Grasshoppers
Controlling Pests
Cool-Season Bad Guys: Slugs and Snails Diagnosing Problems With Lettuce and Peas
Dirty Dozen of Tomato Problems – And What To Do About Them
Diseases That Can Plague Your Garden – And What You Can Do Organically
Dormant Fruit Tree Spraying
Dormant Spray for Tree Pests
Dormant Spray Schedule
First-of-Spring Pests
Garden Nasties: Ants
Garden Tidbits – Ferns, Fertilizer, Beneficial Insects, Interplanting, Composting
Growing Problems with the Onion Family Integrated Pest Management
Integrated Pest Management – It’s Really Just Common Sense
More Hot-Weather-Loving Pests -- Leafhoppers, Leafminers, Loopers and Caterpillars, and Mites
Nasties In The Garden: The Little Guys Natural Cleaners
Onion Family Disease and Pest Problems
Outsmarting the Birds and Squirrels Pest Control Materials You Can Make At Home
Plant Diseases – Some Symptoms and Organic Solutions
Plant Nutrition Problems – Some Symptoms and Organic Solutions Problems Growing Tomatoes - Some Organic Solutions
Problems with Radishes or Celery?
Problems With Tomato Blossoms and Fruit
Problems with Tomato Fruit
Repellents In Your Garden – Discouraging Critters of All Kinds
The (Almost) Last Pests: Nematodes, Sowbugs and Pillbugs, Thrips
The Good Insects and the Bad Insects
Those Nasty Chewing and Sucking Critters -- Some Organic Approaches to Get Them Shortly After They Appear In Your Garden
Tomato Growing Problems And What To Do About Them
Tomato Growing Problems And What To Do About Them – The Growing Part: Young Plants, General Plant Growth, and Leaves
Tomato Growing Problems And What To Do About Them – Blossoms and Fruit
Tomatoes – The Eating Part
Tomatoes – The Growing Part
Tomato Problems
Tomato Problems – General Plant Growth
Tomato Problems #1: General Growing Issues
Tomato Problems #2: The Fruit
Troubleshooting - Beans and Melons
Troubleshooting Corn Problems
Troubleshooting - Cucumber Family Problems
Troubleshooting: Peppers and Eggplants
Vegetable Problems

Propagation

Beginner’s Guide to Propagation
Clippings, Cuttings, Rootings, Sharings = Free Garden
Layering Woody Ornamentals
Soil Layering – Go Forth and Multiply By Bending Shoots Into Soil

Pruning

Last Summer Fruit Tree Pruning
Pruning
The Earliest Spring
Time to Prune
Winter Dormant Pruning

Roses

A Great Start for the New Year In The Garden:
---Bareroot Roses
Fragrant Roses
Modern Roses for Fragrance
Planting Bare-Root Roses
Pruning
Pruning Roses
Putting Roses to Rest
Roses Bloom Through History
Roses – Transplanting Steps
Roses Are Easy
Roses, Wonderful Roses
Still Time to Prune Roses
Transplanting Roses
Winter Dormant Pruning

School Gardening

Gardening In Our Communities and Schools
Playful Activities in the Garden

Seeds - Starting From and Saving

Artichoke from Seed
Fall Is For Seeding
First Seeding for Fall and Winter
Getting Seeds Started
Maturity Dates on Seed Packets – What Do They Mean?
Plan Ahead for a Fall Harvest
Planning the Fall and Winter Garden
Save Flower Seeds Now for a “Free Garden Next Year
Saving Seed
Seed and Seedling Problems – Some Organic Approaches
Seed Germination – Some Ways to Get Your Seeds Started
Seeds Are Easy To Start in “Home-Grown” Containers
Seed Saving Savvy
Sow Lots of Veggie Seeds in Both Pots and In Soil
Sowing the Fall-Through-Spring Garden
Starting and Planting Tomatoes
Starting Fall and Winter Edibles
Starting Seeds In Containers and In The Garden
Starting Seeds Outdoors in the Cold
Starting the New Year's Seeds
Summer Seeding and Transplanting
Think of Winter Veggie Prices!
Thinking of Tomatoes Yet?
Tips for Seed Starting
Tomato-Starting Time
Tomato Time!
Troubleshooting and Some Organic Approaches – Seeds and Seedlings

Shade Gardening

Magic With Shade In My Garden
Shade In My Garden – Do I Love It or Hate It?

Soil

Getting Your Garden Soil In Shape
Preparing Garden Soil
Soil Sample Test – How to Collect Soil
Rain, Rain, Go Away

Spring Gardening

Greening the Indoors
April Fools Weather
April Showers Bring May Flowers" - Already!
Beyond Frost?
Blooming In My Garden Now
Blooms Aplenty
Bringing Blooms to the Garden
Care of Fruit Trees
Changing to Summer Growing Techniques
Cilantro or Coriander or Mexican Parsley or Chinese Parsley?
Colorful, Low-Fuss Landscaping
Cool-Season Bad Guys: Slugs and Snails Deep Watering
Diagnosing Problems With Lettuce and Peas
Planning Your Spring Garden
Drought and Neglect: Some Plants Love Them!
Early Spring Fruit Tree Tips
First-of-Spring Pests
First-of-the-Year Planting
Flower Bulbs – Some In, Some Out
Garden Success Starts With Good soil and Proper Watering
Get Fired Up About Container Planting
Getting Seeds Started
Getting Started in This Year’s Garden
Glorious Spring Color
Greening Our Landscapes
Growing Fruit Trees
Growing the Most Nutritious Vegetables
Growing Your Own Sweet Potatoes
How Much to Irrigate?
In the Garden Yet?
Integrated Pest Management
Intensive, Double-Decker Veggies and Flowers
It’s Arbor Day!
It’s In The Bag! Technique for Starting Tomato Plants
It’s Tomato Time
Last of Winter and First of Spring
Late Spring Tree Care
Let’s Talk Tomatoes
Love Those Annual Posies!
March is Both Winter and Summer
Much Ado about Mulch
Mulch for Low Maintenance
Mulch Your Garden For Magic Growth
Now's The Time For Heat-Lovers!
Plant Perennial Vegetables
Plant Tender Trees
Plant Trees
Planting Tomatoes
Preparing Garden Soil
Roses Are Easy
Something's Always New In the Garden
Sow Lots of Veggie Seeds in Both Pots and In Soil
Spring Care For Fruit Trees
Spring Into Summer
Spring Into Summer?
Spring Into Summer Veggies
Spring, Lovely Spring
Still Eating Bolting Veggies -- To A Point Summer Veggies Already?
Teach Plants to Drink Deeply
Teach Plants to Grow Deeply for Water
The Earliest Spring
The Garden Really Takes Off
Thinking of Tomatoes Yet?
Time for Tree Planting
Time to Plant Heat-Lovers
Tips for Seed Starting
Tomato-Starting Time
Too Many Peas, Last Fall Lettuce
Transition From Spring Into Summer
Transition Time in the Garden
Transitioning the Flower Garden
Trees' First Spring Growth
Trees, Nature's Air Filter
Water Deeply So Plant Roots Grow Deeply
Water, Precious (and Expensive) Water!
Winter Boltings and Spring Beginnings

Starting a Garden

Starting A Garden
Another Crazy-Weather Gardening Year
Another New Garden To Start – Yes, In August!
A Great Start for the New Year In The Garden – Bareroot Roses
A Legacy of Dirt Under the Fingernails – I Started Gardening Because of My Parents
A Toast – To Healthy Gardening
Beginner’s Guide to Propagation
Beginning Steps for Every Home Garden
Colorful, Low-Fuss Landscaping
Combining Plants
Community Garden Management
Drought and Neglect: Some Plants Love Them!
First Seeding for Fall and Winter
Garden Success Starts With Good Soil and Proper Watering
Garden Tidbits – Ferns, Fertilizer, Beneficial Insects, Interplanting, Composting
Gardening Organically
Gardening Sustainably
Gardening Techniques
Getting Seeds Started
Getting Started in This Year’s Garden
Getting the Garden Ready for Dry Weather
Getting Your Garden Soil In Shape
Good Growing Practices
Greening Our Landscapes
Growing Edible Flowers
Growing Fruit Trees
Growing Up with Trellises
How Much to Irrigate?
In the Garden Yet?
Integrated Pest Management
Intensive, Double-Decker Veggies and Flowers
Keep Records for a Better Garden Next Year
Maturity Dates on Seed Packets – What Do They Mean?
New Home and a New Garden
Planning Your Garden
Planning Your Spring Garden
Playful Activities in the Garden
Preparing Garden Soil
Raise Your Beds, and Raise Your Yields
Records from Last Year’s Garden
Guarantee a Better Garden This Time Around
Starting a New Garden?
Starting Seeds Outdoors in the Cold
Ten Steps in Planning Your Garden
Transplanting – Stress or Not?
Transplanting Into the Garden
Transplanting Vegetables and Flowers
Transplant Stress in Vegetables and Flowers – Some Can Handle It, and Some Can’t
Trellises Are Not Only for Jack’s Beanstalk or Your Tomatoes
What’s Organic, Why and How Do I Do It?
Xeri – What?

Summer Garden

A Month of Opposites – Spring To Summer Gardening
A Plentiful Garden
August's Plenty
Beginning July: Still Spring
Changing to Summer Growing Techniques
Early Summer Care for Fruit Trees and Vines
Flower for the Whole Summer
Flowers for Fall
Fruit Trees and Vines
Fuchsias Love Cacti?
Garden Is In Full Swing!
Garden Reinforcement Before Summer Stays Hot
Good Growing Practices
Harvest Tips
Harvesting Herbs
Have You Hugged Your Garden Today? A Day-To-Day Checklist for Your Summer Garden
Heat-Lover Planting Month
Heat-Loving Gardening
Heat-Loving Plants Galore!
Homegrown Harvest
Hot Weather Watering and Fertilizing
How Much to Irrigate?
In The Heat of Transplanting
Integrated Pest Management
It’s All About Harvesting
July’s Both Hot and Cold
Keep Veggies Growing
Kick-Start Your Summer Garden
Last Summer Fruit Tree Pruning
Last Transplanting
March is Both Winter and Summer
Mid-Summer Care for Bloomers
Midsummer Watering and Feeding
Midsummer Watering for Highest Yields
More Planting For More Food
Not Yet Time to Settle Back in the Garden
Planning the Cool-Season Veggie Garden
Planning the Fall and Winter Garden
Planting Succession Crops
Relishing Tomatoes and Beets
Shifting From Summer Garden to Winter Garden
Starting the “Cold” Garden In the Hot Weather
Summer Harvest – The Great Payoff
Summer Indoors Needn’t Be Drearily Plantless
Start Now for Great Summer Gardens
Summer Cleanup Jobs Rule
Summer Fades Into Fall
Summer Feeding
Summer Feeding, Watering, Mulching
Summer Fertilizing
Summer Fruit Tree Care
Summer Fruit Trees
Summer Garden Care
Summer Garden Planting
Summer Seeding and Transplanting
Summer Success For Edibles
Summer Success For Edibles
Summer Veggie Planting
Summer Veggies
Summer Watering
Taking Care of Veggies
The Last Planting of Summer, Already?
The Payoff: Harvest Galore
Think Ahead to Winter Harvests
Think of Winter Veggie Prices!
Tired of Summer Yet?
Tomato Favorites
Transplanting in the Heat
Transplanting Roses
Veggie Growth Moves Into High Gear

Tools

Choosing Tools
Favorite Online Seed Catalogs
Garden Recyclables – Household Throwaways Become Garden Tools
Growing Up with Trellises
Intensive, Double-Decker Veggies and Flowers
Recycling Household Throwaways Into New Garden Tools
Tools for Fall

Vegetables

Artichoke from Seed
Asparagus
Asparagus, Food of the Gods
Billions of Basils!
Chard
Chard: Edible Ornamental
Chives: The Delicate Onion
Choosing Crops in Rotation
Cilantro or Coriander or Mexican
Parsley or Chinese Parsley?
Common Problems With Brassicas
Dirty Dozen of Tomato Problems – And What To Do About Them
Don’t Forget the Garlic!
Drying Tomatoes – The Step Before The Olive Oil
Fall Vegetable Gardening
First Seeding for Fall and Winter
Garlic
Glorious Garlic!
Grow It Now, Eat It Later
Growing Edible Flowers
Growing Problems with the Onion Family
Growing Tomatoes – Cultural Practices Contribute to a Plant’s Health
Growing Tomatoes - Ten Tips to Foil Pest and Disease Problems
Growing Up with Trellises
Growing Yams – Or Are They Sweet Potatoes?
Growing Your Own Sweet Potatoes
Harvesting
Harvesting: The Great Delight
Harvest Time!
Harvest Tips
Harvesting and Sowing
Harvesting Herbs
Harvesting Potatoes and Squash
Harvesting Winter Keepers
Harvesting Winter Vegetables
Harvesting Your Very Own Potatoes
Heat-Lover Planting Month
Heat-Loving Gardening
Heat-Loving Plants Galore!
Homegrown Harvest
In The Heat of Transplanting
Intensive, Double-Decker Veggies and Flowers
It’s All About Harvesting
It’s Fall Planting Time!
It’s In The Bag! Technique for
Starting Tomato Plants
It’s Tomato Time
Keep Veggies Growing
Kick-Start Your Summer Garden
Kohlrabi
Last Frost Signals Planting Time for Later Eating
Leeks
Let’s Talk Tomatoes
Looking Forward to Cool Weather
Love for the Tomato Has Ripened Through History
Love Those Homegrown Taters!
Melons – Four Tricks to the Earliest and Sweetest
Midsummer Watering for Highest Yields
More Planting For More Food
More Winterizing of the Garden
Nine Months of Fresh Green Peas vOnion Family Disease and Pest Problems
Plan Ahead for a Fall Harvest
Prickly Pear Cactus
Planning the Cool-Season Veggie Garden
Planning the Fall and Winter Garden
Plant Perennial Vegetables
Planting Bare-Root Asparagus and Artichokes
Planting Perennial Vegetables
Planting Strawberry Fields
Planting Succession Crops
Planting Tomatoes
Plotting and Transplanting the
Cool-Season Garden
Problems Growing Tomatoes -
Some Organic Solutions
Problems with Radishes or Celery?
Problems With Tomato Blossoms and Fruit
Problems with Tomato Fruit
Radicchio, Red Chicory, Wild Chicory, Italian Chicory
Relishing Tomatoes and Beets
Some Say Cilantro ... I Say Coriander
Spring Into Summer Veggies
Spring, Lovely Spring
Starting and Planting Tomatoes
Starting Fall and Winter Edibles
Starting Seeds Outdoors in the Cold
Still Eating Bolting Veggies -- To A Point
Storing Your Harvest
Summer Success For Edibles
Summer Veggie Planting
Summer Veggies
Summer Veggies Already?
Summer Watering
Summer's Peak Growth
Taking Care of Veggies
Taters and Yams – White and Sweet Potatoes
The Fall Vegetable Garden
Thinking of Tomatoes Yet?
Tomato Favorites
Tomato Growing Problems And What To Do About Them
Tomato Growing Problems And What To Do About Them – The Growing Part: Young Plants, General Plant Growth, and Leaves
Tomato Growing Problems And What To Do About Them – Blossoms and Fruit
Tomatoes – The Eating Part
Tomatoes – The Growing Part
Tomato Problems
Tomato Problems – General Plant Growth
Tomato Problems #1: General Growing Issues
Tomato Problems #2: The Fruit
Tomato-Starting Time
Tomato Time!
Too Many Peas, Last Fall Lettuce
Transplant Perennial Veggies
Troubleshooting and Some Organic Approaches – Individual Vegetables – Asparagus, Beans, Beets, Cabbage Family (Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Kohlrabi), Carrots, Celery, Corn, Cucumber Family (Cucumber, Pumpkin, Squash), Lettuce, Melons (Cantaloupe, Honeydew, Muskmelon, Watermelon), Allium Family (Chives, Garlic, Leek, Onion, Shallot), Peas, Peppers and Eggplants, White Potatoes, Radishes, Spinach, Sweet Potatoes
Troubleshooting and Some Organic Approaches – Just How Much Do I Have to Put Up With?
Troubleshooting and Some Organic Approaches – Seeds and Seedlings
Troubleshooting - Beans and Melons
Troubleshooting Corn Problems
Troubleshooting - Cucumber Family Problems
Troubleshooting: Peppers and Eggplants
Troubleshooting Veggie Problems – Cool Season Crops I – Asparagus, Beets, Carrots
Vegetable Problems
Veggie Growth Moves Into High Gear
Winter Boltings and Spring Beginnings
Winter Edible Gardening-- With Rain!
Winter Planting
Winterizing the Garden

Water Gardening

Beautify Your Landscape with a Water Garden
Water Beautifies the Garden

Weeds – Good Ones

A Very Nutritious Weed – Purslane Good Weeds
Purslane: Edible Weed

Wildflowers

California Poppies and Our Good Life
California’s Gold: Poppies
Wildflowers – Breezy Blooms That Truly Thrive On Neglect…But Only After They’re Established
Wildflowers for Wild Spaces

Winter Gardening

Adding Holiday Amaryllises and Poinsettias To Your Garden
A Great Start for the New Year In The Garden – Bareroot Roses
A New Year, A New Garden
A Wonderful Time to Work In The Garden
Bareroots of the Winter Garden
Bloomies During the Gloomies
Cilantro or Coriander or Mexican Parsley or Chinese Parsley?
Don’t Forget the Garlic!
Dormant Fruit Tree Spraying
Dormant Spray for Tree Pests
Dormant Spray Schedule
Ending One Year and Beginning the Next – With Color!
End-of-the-Season Appreciation Time in the Garden
Fall and Winter Harvest
First-of-the-Year Planting
Fragrant Roses
Frost Damage Protection
Frost Protection
Frost Protection and Other Winter Tasks
Fruit Tree Planting
Garden Is At Low Ebb
Garden-Inspired Gifts
Giving From the Garden
Greening the Indoors
Harvesting Winter Vegetables
Harvesting Your Very Own Potatoes
Holiday Décor From Your Garden
Holiday Decorations You Can Make Yourself From the Garden – Wreaths, Garlands, Valance Hangings and Table Decorations
Intensive, Double-Decker Veggies and Flowers
Last Frost Signals Planting Time for Later Eating
Last of Winter and First of Spring
Less-Common Bloomies For the Gloomies
Let’s Talk Tomatoes
Live Holiday Color Indoors
Live Holiday Decorations
Live Trees For Indoor Holiday Decorating
Low-Key Mid-Winter Gardening
Make Your Own Wreath or Garland
March is Both Winter and Summer
More Winterizing of the Garden
My Holiday Decorations
New Garden Toys and Techniques
Our Real Winter
Planting Bare-Root Asparagus and Artichokes
Planting Bare-Root Roses
Plant Perennial Vegetables
Preventing Frost Damage
Preventing Frost Problems
Prune Cane Berries
Pruning Fruit Trees
Pruning Fruit Trees and Berries
Pruning Fruit Trees and Vines
Pruning Fruits & Berries
Pruning Roses
Rains! Wonderful Rains!
Resolution Time in the Garden
Roses Are Easy
Roses, Wonderful Roses
Shifting From Summer Garden to Winter Garden
Something's Always New In the Garden
Spring Blooms for Winter Holidays – Prepare Bulbs Now For Indoor Forcing Starting the Fall and Winter Garden
Starting the New Year's Seeds
Starting This Year's Garden
Starting To Think of the Fall and Winter Garden
Still Time to Prune Roses
The Garden's Link Between Old and New Year
Time to Prune
Tips for Seed Starting
Transplant Perennial Veggies
Want to Bet That's the End of Winter?
Wildflowers for Wild Spaces
Winter Dormant Pruning
Winter Edible Gardening-- With Rain!
Winter Fruit Tree Sprays
Winter Planting
Winterizing the Garden
Wintertime Seed Sowing
Wonderful Start to the New Year
Wreath Making -- Construction