Professionals offer guidelines for taking advantage of your surroundings.
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Orchids provide indoor color – and a challenge
It takes care and patience to get an orchid to bloom again.
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Growing a garden that’ll let you play bartender
Who knew ginger root, a native of the tropics, could grow in a Maine backyard?
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Sowing wild seeds will help ecosystem in your backyard and beyond
Fifty years ago there was twice as much nature, and we can bring some back.
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Plant the asymmetrically shaped blob (technically a rhizome) now
Enjoy the blue flowers when they bloom come spring.
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A gardening season draws to a close
Our columnist assesses his own patch of earth, from late-blooming hydrangeas to two perfect apples.
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Preserve the bounty of your harvest so you can eat from your garden all winter long
A guide to storing winter squash, parsnips, dried beans and more, no refrigerator or freezer needed.
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Camassia is a bulb you can eat as well as plant
If you want to eat camassia, you must be patient. The bulbs have to be cooked at low temperatures for at least 12 hours, or they cause painful gas
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Is a tricky shaded, moist spot stumping you?
Here’s what to plant for an entire season of garden interest.
