Hobby Farms
Brown Beauties
WE TURN THE SPOTLIGHT ON 12 TOP BROWN-EGG-LAYING HENS.
6 min |
Hobby Farm Home 2025
Hobby Farms
25 CROPS for 2025
OUR PODCAST HOST REVEALS HER MUST-PLANT LIST.
7 min |
Hobby Farm Home 2025
Hobby Farms
100% Whole Wheat
Make great-tasting, healthy, homemade bread with this easy recipe.
8 min |
Hobby Farm Home 2025
Hobby Farms
SPICED EGG YOLK cookies
When you are baking and cooking with recipes that leave you with extra egg yolks, these cookies come to the rescue. By using up six yolks, they help ensure that nothing goes to waste, whether you are making meringues or simply enjoy eating egg whites for breakfast.
2 min |
Hobby Farm Home 2025
Garden Gate
Spinach - Learn the secrets to growing this tasty green in spring and fall.
If you're one of those gardeners who can't wait to get started in spring and hates to throw in the trowel in fall, spinach is the perfect shoulder season crop. This mild, earthy-flavored green comes in many varieties, ranging from crinkly-leafed savoys to slightly textured semi-savoys and the flat, smooth-leafed types. Colors can be dark green, light green and even red-veined. Here's how to get the most of it every year.
2 min |
Issue 179 - October 2024
Garden Gate
Why Bulb Depth Matters - Dig deep enough to ensure your plants stand tall and live the longest
When you're planting bulbs, it's tempting to just dig a hole as deep as your trowel will reach easily, nestle the bulb in, cover it up and move on. But the fact is, each type of bulb will flower best and thrive at a different depth.A good rule of thumb is to plant a bulb two to three times its height. One reason planting depth is important is because it helps to keep the bulbs protected from fluctuations in temperature that happen closer to the surface.
1 min |
Issue 179 - October 2024
Vogue US
The First Wild Garden - A new book celebrates the historic English garden that launched a modern movement.
Without naming the most grotesque examples of tree mutilation in England, it is clear that much beauty is lost in our gardens by the stupid and ignorant practice of cutting trees into unnatural shapes,” wrote the Victorian-era gardener William Robinson in Gravetye Manor: Or Twenty Years’ Work round an Old Manor House (1911). Robinson’s fighting words were laid out in the preface to his book, an account of the decades he spent creating his garden at the Elizabethan house of Gravetye Manor in Sussex, England, and recently reproduced in facsimile by Rizzoli alongside stunning contemporary photographs.
3 min |
September 2024
Horticulture
NEW PLANTS
Multiseason Marvels
4 min |
September - October 2024
Horticulture
AN ECOLOGICAL AGREEMENT
How three great minds think alike
4 min |
September - October 2024
Horticulture
LOW-WATER WONDERS
EXPLORE ONE PLANTSMAN'S DROUGHT-TOLERANT FAVORITES FOR EACH LEVEL OF THE GARDEN
4 min |
September - October 2024
Horticulture
THE GARDEN GOES DARK
Yes, gardens have their dark side. But-surprise! A garden's darkness can be good, not sinister.
7 min |
September - October 2024
Horticulture
GAGA FOR GALANTHUS
As easy as they are irresistible, snowdrops boast a devoted and growing following
6 min |
September - October 2024
Horticulture
AT HOME WITH PLANTS
Business travel and pleasure trips helped inspire this Cincinnati garden
6 min |
September - October 2024
Horticulture
BLUEBERRIES & CO.
Members of the genus Vaccinium provide sweet flavor, health benefits and beauty in the garden
5 min |
September - October 2024
Horticulture
Take It Indoors
Cs the growing season dwindles, _ potted cittus became a summer souuenir
4 min |
September - October 2024
Horticulture
ROOTED IN PLACE
LAYERING IS A PROPAGATION TECHNIQUE THAT TAKES A WHILE TO COMPLETE, BUT IT DEMANDS LITTLE EFFORT FROM THE GARDENER
4 min |
September - October 2024
Garden Gate
GARDEN ESSENTIALS
FALL GARDEN CLEANUP TOOLS
2 min |
Issue 179 - October 2024
Garden Gate
Establish a Monarch Waystation
Did you know that a single monarch butterfly can migrate up to 3,000 miles? That's a lot of ground to cover! This amazing insect makes a fascinating journey, unlike any other butterfly.
3 min |
Issue 179 - October 2024
Garden Gate
Switchgrass
Adaptable switchgrass goes with the flow.
1 min |
Issue 179 - October 2024
Garden Gate
A GARDEN OF STORIES
Learn plant and project tips from a couple who's been gardening here for nearly 50 years.
7 min |
Issue 179 - October 2024
Garden Gate
Garden Fences
Discover the perfect blend of functionality, style, and materials for your ideal fence.
5 min |
Issue 179 - October 2024
Garden Gate
Cucumber Trellis Flop
I watched cucumber trellis growers online for several seasons with envy. What a brilliant way to save space in raised garden beds and make it look fancy! Finally, I was sold and decided to try it in my garden.
2 min |
Issue 179 - October 2024
Garden Gate
Saving Seeds
Saving flower seeds is a great way to get more plants with almost no investment. It's easy to do. Here's how to save seeds from some of your favorite annuals as the growing season winds down.
2 min |
Issue 179 - October 2024
Garden Gate
9 Tough Perennials for Clay Soil
Whether you garden in the nutrient-poor red clay of the Southeast, the calcium combined-with-clay caliche of the West or something in between, the common denominator is that clay soil is difficult to grow in. Why? Tiny particles of clay hold tightly together, slowing drainage and limiting the amount of oxygen that can reach plant roots. You've seen the resultsanemic-looking or rotting plants.
7 min |
Issue 179 - October 2024
Horticulture
Weeding Out Worry - Two books give perspectives on gardening's importance to mental health
Two books give perspectives on gardening's importance to mental health. One is written by a psychiatrist and psychotherapist who draws on decades of experience as a clinician and a gardener to discuss how gardening and interaction with the natural world benefit us. The other is written by a woman with mental illness whose efforts at becoming well brought her to outdoor activities, including gardening.
4 min |
July - August 2024
Horticulture
Succeed With Succession- The best crops to plant throughout summer, plus how to time them right
The best crops to plant throughout summer, plus how to time them right. Once a crop like spring turnips or snap peas has finished, I tidy up the bed, amend the soil with a thin layer of compost and replant. Depending on the new crop, I may be sowing seeds or transplanting seedlings.
5 min |
July - August 2024
Horticulture
Prized Perennials
GAPS IN THE GARDEN? TRY ONE OF THESE AWARD-WINNING PLANTS AS A SAFE-BET FIX
9 min |
July - August 2024
Horticulture
THE GARDEN CENTER'S GRIP
SOMETHING WEIRD HAPPENS when gardeners enter a garden center. We change. Suddenly, somehow, we're overcome with this vague yet powerful, transcendental feeling of liberation, and we become aware of money we probably have and hopefully won't otherwise need.
2 min |
July - August 2024
Horticulture
A TOAST TO CORK
A trip to Portugal inspired Greg Coppa to peel back the botany of the cork oak
7 min |
July - August 2024
Horticulture
Changes & CHOICES
HOW PLANT EXPERTS ARE RESPONDING TO OUR SHIFTING CLIMATE AND WEATHER EXTREMES
5 min |