future tiny forest

Grow your own salad

vegetable gardening

Grow your own salad

Here’s how — and so many reasons why.

Forest evolution: The mown meadow

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Forest evolution: The mown meadow

Or mown mini-meadow, in my case.

Hot Tip: Sheet mulching

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Hot Tip: Sheet mulching

The easy, chemical-free way to reduce lawn/weeds and increase planting space.

Playing Favorites: Common white yarrow

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Playing Favorites: Common white yarrow

... as excellent as it is ubiquitous.

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Courtyard garden master plan

Courtyard garden master plan

The clouds have parted; the plan is clear. (-ish.)

Ghosts of potagers past: California

Ghosts of potagers past: California

How an overgrown lot became a picturesque and productive kitchen garden.

On being a beginning gardener (for the third time)

On being a beginning gardener (for the third time)

A short history of my 4 gardens, across 20 years and 3 climates.

Carport converted to a covered porch with hanging chairs and ferns

It’s a carport, it’s a porch — it’s the carporch

When the carport is the only place to sit in the shade, you dust off your chairs and make it work!

Heaven is a forest: An intro

Heaven is a forest: An intro

Embarking on a years-long attempt to transform a bare rectangle of turf grass into a shady oasis.

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