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GuideDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

Your First Beehive and Your First Jar of Honey

Bees sell out in February, most beginners kill their first colony the same way, and year two is when the honey shows up. Start here.

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The Garden That Fed a Family Was Smaller Than You Think

Six rows behind the garage, a sharp hoe and ten minutes after supper. What the old gardeners actually did, and how to copy it this season.

GuideGarden & YardWes DunbarNov 7, 20265 min

Mulch Goes Down After the Soil Warms, Not When You Get Excited

Three inches of the right stuff, laid at the right time, cuts your weeding and watering all summer. Laid too early, it does the opposite.

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Garden, walk and keep working into your eighties

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Fence the garden, not the chickens

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GuideGarden & YardWes DunbarNov 6, 20265 min

Plant Asparagus Now and Eat Well for Twenty Years

It asks for three years of patience and almost nothing else. After that, a well-sited bed feeds your family every spring for two decades.

GuideCountry BroWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Plant fruit trees now and you'll eat from them by year five

Rootstock, spacing, deer, and the two mistakes that turn a thirty-dollar bare-root tree into a dead stick by August.

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Your green beans need a pressure canner and your pickles don't

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All Those Flowers and Not One Zucchini? Check the Calendar First

GuideCountry BroWes DunbarSep 23, 20265 min

A Garden Big Enough to Show Up on the Grocery Receipt

Most backyard gardens are a hobby with a tomato problem. Here's the size, the crop list and the work it takes to actually cut your food bill.

GuideGuides & ChecklistsWes DunbarSep 23, 20267 min

Turning bare ground into a vegetable garden that actually feeds you

One 4x8 bed, built right, will out-produce the quarter-acre plot you abandon in July. Here's the whole build, start to harvest.

GuideGarden & YardSam OrtizOct 5, 20266 min

A Kid's Garden Needs a Win by Week Four

Tomatoes and pumpkins lose kids by July. Radishes, bush beans and one giant sunflower keep them coming back out the door.

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GuideSkillsWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

A four-by-eight raised bed, built in one afternoon

Four feet wide, nine inches deep, three boards and a box of screws. The build takes 90 minutes. Hauling the soil is the real work.

GuideBRO for HerNina CastellanSep 23, 20265 min

Stop growing garnish and start growing dinner

Most home gardens produce six weeks of salad and nothing in January. Here's how to plant one that actually shows up on the table.

GuideGarden & YardWes DunbarOct 5, 20267 min

Save Tomato and Bean Seed First and Leave the Squash Alone

Seed saving is easy with the right five crops and a jar of stinking tomato goo. Pick the wrong ones and next summer gets weird.

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Your Rosemary Died Because You Treated It Like Basil

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Skip the Bucket and Grow Your Potatoes in a Bag

GuideGarden & YardWes DunbarOct 5, 20267 min

Plant Paste Tomatoes If You Actually Want Sauce

Most homemade sauce fails in March, when you buy the wrong seeds. Pick the right variety and the timing, and one August afternoon fills your freezer.

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Plant by Your Frost Date, Not Your Zone

Your zone tells you what survives winter. Your frost date tells you when to plant. Most first-year gardeners mix them up and lose a flat of tomatoes.

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