garden plants

Garden border in spring with tulips, crocus, daffodils and daisies abutting a carefully tended lawn and edged with concrete slabs

Cucumber plant drowing up a support showing tendrils, leaves, and young cucumber fruits and flowers alogn with companion planting of nasturtium

Rotation patterns for growing vegetables

Rotation patterns for growing vegetables

Examples of how to lay out your vegetable garden and how adaptable one space can be

Container growing herbs including marjoram, chives, basil, chervril, salad, lettuce, and nasturtium

Raised bed growing chives, nasturtium, lavender, chili, cabbage, lettuce, rosemary, parsley, and violets

Lasagna garden cross section showing the layering of paper, organic matter such as compost, topsoil, and crops

Study of leaf litter showing dead decaying leaves

Pepper seedling in a lump of soil, held in the hand of a gardener

A hand pinching out the growth tips on a cucumber plant to encourage lateral growth and more cucmber fruit

Brownstone house with back yard full of a diverse array of containers all of which are growing different edible food crops from herbs to fruit thorugh salads and vegetables.

Corner of a raised bed showing how to attach the plants to one another when building the bed

Three illustrations showing compost as it degrades into organic matter, from recognizable leaf litter through to earth like mulch

Set up with two compost bins in rotation

Vegetable garden in a raised bed showing taller crop plants behind the shorter ones in the front including beans, borage, chives, and salad crops

Steps involved in single digging soil

Preparing soil and sowing grass seed to create a beautiful lawn

Staked tiger lilies with each plant attached to an individual cane

Standard tree with supporting stake in a large flower pot container

Lily bulbs in a flower pot with a can next to each to support the emerging plant as it grows

Propagating strawberries and finding and planting in runners to produce new plants which can be potted on sparately once established

Using secateurs to prune new growth in the summer

Different ways of supporting perennials including stakes, link stakes, split canes, frames, and cages