How to Design a Garden That Looks Good in Every Season
Most gardens have a moment. You know the one — mid-June, everything’s blooming, the tomatoes are climbing their stakes, and you walk outside with your coffee feeling like you’ve got this whole gardening thing figured out. Then October rolls around, the flowers fade, and by January you’re looking at a patch of bare dirt and […]
How to Grow Tomatoes That Actually Taste Like Something
You know the tomato I’m talking about. Pale pink, mealy in the middle, tastes vaguely of water and disappointment. It’s the one sitting in the produce aisle in January, shipped in from somewhere far away, picked green and gassed into looking ripe. If you’ve ever bitten into one of those and wondered why anyone bothers […]