Garden Organization

By the end of the second summer, the little white plastic tag that came with your new shrub has done one of three things. It has snapped at the base and disappeared into the mulch. It has migrated mysteriously to the far corner of the bed during weeding. Or — the most common fate — […]

There’s a particular kind of gardener’s regret that arrives every spring, usually around the second week of May, when you’re standing over a patch of bare soil with a seed packet in one hand and absolutely no memory of what grew there last year. Was it the tomatoes? The squash that got powdery mildew? You’re

Every gardener has lived this moment. It’s a soft April morning, the soil has finally warmed, and you’re crouched in the bed you spent half of last summer fussing over. A small green rosette is unfurling near the back corner. You stare. You squint. You try to remember. Did I plant that? It might be