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GuideDean Shaw23 Sept 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.

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

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.

GuideCountry BroWes Dunbar23 Sept 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.

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GuideGarden & YardWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Start Seeds Indoors and Skip the Garden Center Six-Pack

The calendar math, the gear that actually matters, and the reason your tomato seedlings keep flopping over like wet spaghetti.

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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.

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GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 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 Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Gardening After Sixty Without Wrecking Your Back

Build the bed at the right height, buy one kneeler that won't fold, and stop hauling water. The rest is just showing up.

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GuideGarden & YardNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Canning Season Without the Guesswork

Acid level, altitude and a tested recipe decide whether your pantry is food or a hazard. Everything else is preference.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideGarden & YardWes Dunbar23 Sept 20265 min

Your Zucchini Rots Because Nothing Visited the Flower

Half your vegetable garden depends on insects you never planted for. Fix that with a four-foot strip, a few dollars of seed, and better timing.

GuideGarden & YardDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Garden Tools Worth Buying Once and the Ones That Aren't

A snapped shovel handle in frozen clay costs more than the shovel did. Which tools earn a lifetime purchase, and which ones you should buy cheap on purpose.

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GuideGarden & YardWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Pull, Mulch, Then Spray. In That Order.

A weed plan that actually works, with the timing, the depths, the costs, and the three mistakes that cost you a whole season.

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GuideGarden & YardWes Dunbar23 Sept 20265 min

Keeping Deer, Rabbits and Squirrels Out Without Poison

Fence heights, mesh sizes, what a repellent actually does, and the month your garden gets hit hardest depending on your zone.

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GuideGarden & YardNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Grow These Five Herbs on Your Windowsill, Skip the Rest

A $3.99 clamshell of basil rots in four days. A $5 pot of it feeds you until October, if you get the light right.

GuideGarden & YardSam Ortiz23 Sept 20266 min

Fast Crops That Keep a Kid in the Garden

A radish goes from seed to dinner plate in under a month, which is roughly the outer limit of a seven-year-old's patience.

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GuideGarden & YardWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Put Drip Irrigation in Your Vegetable Garden This Weekend

Two days, a hose bib, and about $150 buys you a garden that waters itself all summer. The parts nobody tells you about are the ones that matter.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

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Why Your Tomatoes Taste Like Water and How to Fix It

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Build a 4x8 Raised Bed for Under Two Hundred Dollars

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Latest news · Gardening

Your First Beehive and Your First Jar of Honey

Garden, walk and keep working into your eighties

The Garden That Fed a Family Was Smaller Than You Think

Fence the garden, not the chickens

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

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

Turning bare ground into a vegetable garden that actually feeds you

A Garden Big Enough to Show Up on the Grocery Receipt

Start Seeds Indoors and Skip the Garden Center Six-Pack

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

Stop growing garnish and start growing dinner

Gardening After Sixty Without Wrecking Your Back

Canning Season Without the Guesswork

Your Zucchini Rots Because Nothing Visited the Flower

Garden Tools Worth Buying Once and the Ones That Aren't

Pull, Mulch, Then Spray. In That Order.

Keeping Deer, Rabbits and Squirrels Out Without Poison

Grow These Five Herbs on Your Windowsill, Skip the Rest

Fast Crops That Keep a Kid in the Garden

Put Drip Irrigation in Your Vegetable Garden This Weekend

Why Your Tomatoes Taste Like Water and How to Fix It

Build a 4x8 Raised Bed for Under Two Hundred Dollars