The garden journal
We sold our apartment and started a garden. This is what we’ve learned so far.
Plants, tools, mistakes, and the occasional thing that actually works.
From the garden
Latest notes
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How to Grow Peonies (And Why They Won’t Bloom)
Read the article: How to Grow Peonies (And Why They Won’t Bloom)The most expensive tool in peony growing is a ruler, and it costs a dollar. Plant the roots at the right depth and a peony blooms for fifty years, maybe a hundred, outliving the person who planted it. Plant them…
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13 Spring-Blooming Perennials to Plant This Fall
Read the article: 13 Spring-Blooming Perennials to Plant This FallI planted a box of bare-root peonies one October, mostly because they were half price. By May, I understood why gardeners plan their springs in the fall.
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13 Plant-and-Forget Shrubs That Thrive on Neglect
Read the article: 13 Plant-and-Forget Shrubs That Thrive on NeglectThere’s a shrub in my side yard I haven’t touched in three years. No pruning, no feeding, no watering past its first summer… and it looks better than the plants I fuss over weekly.
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Read the story: Everything We Got Wrong the First Year
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Everything We Got Wrong the First Year
I’ve been writing gardening guides for this site for a while now, and most of them sound like I know what I’m doing.
“We plant what we want to eat, look at, or smell. Not what’s trending. We kill things regularly and write about it honestly.”
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