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  • How to Plant a Low-Maintenance and Drought-Resistant Gravel Garden

    How to Plant a Low-Maintenance and Drought-Resistant Gravel Garden

    If you’re tired of watering your lawn to keep it alive, or if you live somewhere with water use restrictions, you may have given up on having a garden. In places where it’s hard to keep traditional landscaping plants alive, or for people who want a low-maintenance, cost-effective alternative to a lawn, a gravel garden…


  • You Should Try No-Dig Gardening

    You Should Try No-Dig Gardening

    In school, most people learned that gardening involved planting a seed in soil, making sure it had the right amount of water and sunlight, and watching it grow. Of course, there’s a lot more to it than that, not to mention many other gardening methods.


  • The Best Ways to Use Grass Clippings in Your Garden

    The Best Ways to Use Grass Clippings in Your Garden

    Maintaining a traditional green grass lawn is a year-round process, with mowing typically being the most time-consuming task. Not only does this involve cutting the grass, but it also means figuring out what to do with the clippings you’re left with when you finish. Rather than dumping them into trash bags and throwing them away,…


  • Leave Your Autumn Garden Alone

    Leave Your Autumn Garden Alone

    There’s a lot of information out there — including on this site — listing garden tasks to complete in a particular month, or ahead of a certain season. And while there are always jobs you can do now to make your life easier in the future, some gardening experts say that when it comes to…