Designing, Planning, and Care Tips From the Home Gardening Center

Year Round

Design Basics

Color Theory in the Garden

Designs that Draw You Into Nature

Garden Design Basics

Use Seasonal Walk as Design Teaching Tool

Think Repetition, Seasonality in Garden Design

Vertical Gardening

Easy Design Steps for the Home Gardener

Garden Economics

Site Inventory and Analysis for Landscape Design

Designing the Vegetable Patch

Gardening for the Grill

Ornamental Vegetable Garden Design

More on Vegetable Garden Design

Vegetables and the Color Palette

A Rainbow of Vegetables

Gardening With Nature

Become Aware of Your Garden’s Microclimates

Lessons in Biodiversity and Sense of Place

Environmentally Friendly Gardening Tips

Home Gardening the Organic Way

Coastal Gardening in the New York Region

How to Protect a Garden from Hurricane Damage

Care and Feeding

Good Husbandry

The Cutting Edge

Companion Planting

We All Need Friends: Companion Planting for Roses

Under or Inter... Planting?

Garden Cleanup

What’s at Stake?

Weeding

A Weedy Mess: Keeping My Life in Order

Weed-Free Heaven

Tools of the Trade

Cutting Back on Work

Saving Seeds

Collecting Seeds

Cleaning, Drying, and Storing Seeds

Seed Viability

Cleaning Tomato Seeds

Gardening for Wildlife

Creating a Bird Garden

Creating a Butterfly Garden

Favorite Plants for Butterflies, Caterpillars

Designing From the Couch

Use Caution with Catalogs

Artistic Inspiration

A Shakespeare Garden

Monet at Giverny: Creation, Facts, and Secrets

Generous support for the Home Gardening Center has been provided by Kenneth and Ellen Roman.



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