Every single year around late September, I used to panic. I would look out at my overgrown patch of basil, oregano, and rosemary, realizing a hard frost was coming to wipe it all out. After about fifteen years of trial and error in my own backyard, I finally figured out how to preserve that summer
If you look at your garden beds right now, they might be looking a bit tired after a long summer of pushing out tomatoes, squash, and peppers. It’s tempting to just pull the dead vines, walk inside, and forget about the dirt until April. I used to do exactly that for the first four or
If you have spent any time scrolling through gardening videos recently, you have probably run across the term “chaos gardening.” The idea sounds incredibly liberating: instead of meticulously measuring rows, starting delicate seeds under pricey grow lights, and obsessing over structural layouts, you just throw all your leftover seed packets into a bucket, mix them
I’ll be honest with you—about twelve years ago, I thought I was a gardening prodigy because I’d read three books and bought a shiny new spade. I spent three hundred dollars on heirloom tomato starts, dug some holes in my backyard, and waited for the bounty. What I got instead were stunted, yellowing vines that