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Worms. You think worms are good, right? They aerate the soil, break down organic matter. Mostly, they are. But some worms… some are microscopic, insidious,…

Honestly, I almost chucked my shovel across the yard the first time I tried to build a path on a hillside. The sheer frustration of…

Honestly, I thought building raised garden beds was rocket science for years. Like, you needed architectural blueprints and a degree in landscape engineering just to…

Honestly, the sheer volume of nonsense out there about how can i kill grass in my garden is enough to make you want to pave…

Chop. Slice. Dice. I’ve done it all to these leafy green stalks, and let me tell you, there’s a right way and a bunch of…

Frankly, I used to dread fall gardening. Every year, the same old story: I’d buy those perfect-looking mums from the garden center, trot them home,…

Honestly, most of what you read about starting a spice garden is pure garbage. People talk about “curating” soil amendments and “optimizing” microclimates like they’re…

Honestly, I almost threw a whole bag of these things out the window on my third year trying to make them work. The marketing hype…

Fried okra. It’s the classic, the one everyone thinks of. But let me tell you, that mushy, slimy disappointment that sometimes shows up on your…

Most people think starting a hydroponic garden at home is this clean, sci-fi endeavor. Like you need a degree in botany and a clean room….

Someone asked me the other day how to start a community garden NYC. My first thought wasn’t about soil pH or the best heirloom tomato…

Right, nettles. The bane of my gardening existence for about ten years. I remember one spring, I was so fed up with them creeping into…

Honestly, figuring out how long do lilies last in a garden felt like a treasure hunt with a map drawn in invisible ink for years….

Honestly, I almost didn’t write this. The internet is drowning in “gardening gurus” selling courses that promise you a “lush oasis” or a “farm-to-table dream”…

Honestly, most of what you read about attracting wildlife to your garden sounds like it was written by someone who’s never actually done it. They…

Wood dust flying everywhere, splinters in places I didn’t know existed, and a table that wobbled like a drunk sailor. That was my first attempt…

Honestly, the idea of how to catch wild rabbit in garden sends shivers down my spine. Not because it’s hard, but because I remember spending…

Honestly, I thought zen gardens were just for rich people with sprawling estates and perfectly manicured lawns. My first attempt at a ‘zen garden’ involved…

My first attempt at building a wooden garden bench looked like a drunk giraffe tried to assemble a puzzle. Seriously, it listed so badly that…

Honestly, I used to think attracting wildlife was some kind of mystical art, all about specific native plants and expensive bird feeders. Then I realized…

Honestly, the amount of conflicting advice out there on watering vegetables could make you want to just pave over the whole plot. I’ve seen people…

I remember standing in my garden one sweltering July afternoon, staring at my prize tomatoes. Or what *used* to be my prize tomatoes. They looked…

Honestly, when I first heard about Garden City, Kansas, my mind conjured up images of sprawling fields of nothingness. It wasn’t a place that immediately…

Digging. That’s what they do. Tiny, furry demolition crews that turn your prize-winning lawn into a bumpy, uneven mess overnight. I remember one spring, I’d…

The first time I tried to deck my garden, I blew through nearly $500 on what I thought were top-of-the-line composite planks. They looked okay…

Honestly, I spent a ridiculous amount of money early on thinking every spindly little green thing popping up was a mistake I needed to obliterate…

Right, let’s talk about how to attract hedgehogs to my garden. Honestly, I spent an embarrassing amount of cash on fancy hedgehog houses that looked…

My first garden was a jungle. Honestly, a hot mess. I’d enthusiastically planted everything I saw at the garden center, convinced I was the next…

Bought one of those little plastic basil plants from the grocery store last spring. Seemed like an easy win, right? Wrong. Within a week, it…

Honestly, I thought I knew it all. Seed packets and old gardening books told me X inches here, Y inches there. I bought fancy dibbers…

Frankly, I was skeptical. Everyone online was raving about straw bale gardening like it was the second coming of dirt. Then I saw the price…

Honestly, I almost gave up on rock gardens. My first attempt looked less like a serene alpine meadow and more like a pile of rocks…

Honestly, the sheer volume of drivel out there about how to seed a garden is astounding. It’s like everyone’s trying to sell you something, or…