A Way To Garden
'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener
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‘arnold selects’: exceptional woody plants, from the arnold arboretum (opens the original)
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WHAT MAKES a tree or shrub exceptional – something worthy of introduction into the nursery trade, and eventually maybe making its way into your garden? There are many pathways a plant can travel to get there, including one unique one from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. As part of its 150th anniversary celebration in 2022, the arboretum announced its Arnold Selects program for identifying and launching such potential treasures, each with its own provenance or story to tell, inspired
vegetable-garden wisdoms, with jean-martin fortier (opens the original)
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WHEN I HEARD that today’s guest, who’s been a guiding force in educating organic farmers, was finally publishing a book specifically for gardeners, I was thrilled. I’d been following Jean-Martin Fortier since his first handbook on biointensive organic market farming came out more than a decade ago, and even gone to hear him speak at farming conferences—then done my best to translate and distill his advice and apply it to my own garden size and conditions. Now JM, as he is known, has done all the
is a backyard greenhouse in your future? with leslie halleck (opens the original)
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IS A GREENHOUSE in your future? I’ve never had one, and I have always been not-so-secretly jealous of friends who do—whether to propagate their seedlings in late winter into spring, or grow more tropicals and other “houseplants” than fit in their house, or who knows what. A new book by horticulturist Leslie Halleck called “Home Greenhouse Revival: Growing Year-Round Foliage, Flowers & Food” (affiliate link) is a tempting look at what can be accomplished inside a backyard greenhouse, and details
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