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My first summer drowning in cherry tomatoes, I thought, ‘I’ll freeze them all for winter!’ Big mistake. Huge. I ended up with bags of mushy,…

Honestly, digging into the runtime of ‘The Secret Garden’ musical felt like trying to find a specific herb in a sprawling, overgrown patch. You just…

Years ago, staring at my own sad, crumbling brick wall at the back of the garden, I thought ‘this is an eyesore.’ I spent a…

Honestly, I think most people get the “raised bed” part right but then completely screw up the “garden” bit by buying fancy, overpriced kits that…

Birds. Adorable, right? Until they decide your prize-winning tomatoes are their personal buffet. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve walked out to the…

Honestly, the sheer volume of garbage advice out there about how to keep rabbits out of your garden is enough to make you want to…

Digging into the dirt, trying to coax a decent harvest out of stubborn plants—it’s a gamble sometimes, isn’t it? My first real attempt at growing…

Honestly, the first time I spotted a fox trotting through my prize petunias, I panicked. I’d heard they were cute, but seeing one casually dig…

Honestly, if you’re asking about ‘how many days in lily’s garden 2020’, you’re probably wading through a swamp of outdated advice. I get it. I’ve…

Honestly, trying to figure out how much it’ll cost to landscape your garden feels like pulling teeth sometimes. You get these glossy brochures with impossibly…

Honestly, most of what you read about how to small garden is utter nonsense, designed to sell you fancy tools you’ll never use or plants…

I remember the first time I tried to build a garden arbor. It looked so simple in the online photos – a few pieces of…

Honestly, the first time I tried to figure out how to install a garden tap, I thought it’d be a quick afternoon job. Turns out,…

Pruning. It sounds so simple, right? Just grab some shears and go to town. Yeah, I believed that nonsense for a while too. Spent a…

Remember that summer I spent a solid two weeks staring at my tomato plants, only to find them looking like lace doilies by evening? Grasshoppers….

The sheer volume of glossy magazines and perfectly staged Instagram feeds can make you think that creating a beautiful garden is some kind of arcane…

Got bunnies decimating your lettuce? I know the feeling. This gnawing frustration is something I’ve battled for years, turning my once-proud vegetable patch into a…

Staring at a sad, overgrown shrub that’s outgrown its spot? Or maybe you just bought a house and the previous owner’s landscaping is… a choice….

Seventeen years ago, I thought I was hot stuff with a packet of seeds and a vague notion of wanting fresh tomatoes. Fast forward a…

Honestly, the first few times I tried harvesting lettuce from my garden, it was a disaster. I’d hack at the whole plant, convinced that was…

Frankly, the whole “one person garden” thing is often framed as this quaint, adorable hobby. Picture it: a tiny patch of mint on a windowsill,…

Honestly, the first time I saw one slithering across my petunias, my stomach did a flip. Not because it was a venomous horror, but because…

Honestly, I spent a ridiculous amount of time and money trying to figure out how to get to garden city without tripping over my own…

Digging. That’s the sound of my stomach dropping into my boots every spring. You spend weeks planning, sowing, watering, babying those little sprouts, and then……

Spraying chemicals everywhere feels like the default, doesn’t it? I remember the first time I saw a particularly large garden spider making my prize-winning tomatoes…

Spraying that Sevin dust everywhere felt like a good idea at the time. You know, the bright yellow stuff in the shaker can that promises…

I remember the first time I tried to harvest lettuce. Thought it was simple, right? Just pull the whole thing up. Turns out, I yanked…

Honestly, most of what you read about harvesting spinach is total nonsense. They make it sound like some delicate ballet, and if you so much…

You know that sinking feeling? The one where you wake up, peek outside, and see that everything you’ve nurtured – those tender tomato seedlings, the…

Seriously, who actually thinks about how to ‘go’ to a botanic garden? You just… go. Right? Turns out, after wasting a perfectly good Saturday afternoon…

Honestly, the sheer amount of garbage advice out there about weeding is enough to make you want to pave the whole damn yard. I’ve spent…

Building a raised garden bed feels like it should be simple, right? Grab some wood, screw it together, fill it with dirt. Easy peasy. Except,…

Gardening. It’s supposed to be this zen, calming escape, right? For me, for years, it was mostly just an expensive hobby that ended with more…