What to Do Before First Frost: Cover, Harvest or Leave
The forecast says 34 degrees overnight and suddenly you have decisions to make before dark. Knowing what to do before first frost arrives is mostly a sorting problem. Some plants…
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Shrub Spacing: How Far Apart to Plant for a Full Hedge
Shrub spacing by mature width, distance from fences and walls, single versus staggered rows, and an honest look at what planting too close actually costs you.
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Fence Post Depth and Spacing: The Numbers That Keep a Fence Straight
Fence post depth is the difference between a fence that still looks straight in ten years and one that starts leaning next summer. A 6 foot privacy fence set 18…
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Overseeding a Lawn in Fall: How to Know If You Still Have Time
How to tell whether your fall overseeding window is still open, the seed rates that actually work, and the prep and watering steps that decide the result.
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Patio Size: How Big Yours Needs to Be for How You Use It
Almost every patio that gets rebuilt was built too small the first time. Not because the owner guessed badly, but because they sized the patio to the furniture. Patio size…
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Mulch Depth: How Much to Use and When to Put It Down
Mulch is the cheapest thing you can do for a garden and one of the easiest to get wrong. Too little and the weeds come straight through. Too much and…
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How Far to Plant Trees From a House: A Distance Guide
Autumn is when most people finally plant the tree they have been thinking about all year, and it is also when the most expensive garden mistakes get made. A sapling…
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Garden Path Width: How Wide to Make a Walkway
Almost every garden path is built too narrow. Not by much, usually. Six inches, maybe a foot. But a path you have to walk single file down, or turn sideways…
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Fall Garden Cleanup: What to Cut Back and What to Leave
A selective fall garden cleanup: which plants to cut back now, which to leave standing until spring, and what to do with the leaves.
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Raised Garden Bed Sizes: The Widths, Depths and Spacing That Work
Most raised beds fail on paper before anyone touches a shovel. The bed is built five feet wide because that was the space available, and from that day on the…
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