THE HARVEST IS FINALLY ACCELERATING, which got me thinking about a tool that’s as critical to success right about now as my mower and spade: the perfect canning jar. 
One morning this week, over a cup of tea on Skype with my friend Gayla Trail a.k.a. You Grow Girl, we ended up having an entire conversation about them, in fact. Bottom line: neither of us knows how we could live without them! 
The message has become increasingly clear: By shifting the palette of what we plant toward native, and refining the practices we employ in caring...
You’ve heard the expression “companion planting,” as in: What plants supposedly “love” growing alongside what other plants? But how many such pairings are folklore,...
By the time I finished fall cleanup in November, a few essential pieces of garden equipment were looking worse for wear, like that tarp...