Chicken HARVEST

Process your own birds with this helpful guide.

STORING YOUR Harvest

Root cellaring can extend your harvest and provide a rainbow of fresh colors and flavors to your kitchen throughout the winter.

PROJECT FARM

Build a lean-to greenhouse onto an existing structure to add to your growing space.

STORAGE Guide

Store these fruits and vegetables well past fall into late winter; then your early spring garden can take over.

Big-Picture Pest Management

Insecticides have historically been among the first tools we’ve reached for to save crops from insect damage, but integrated pest management experts stress that these should be considered only as a last line of defense. Fortunately, now more effective ways exist to wrangle insect pests and minimize the damage they can do.

Processing a Slaughter Hog

Butchering hogs can be a family event that teaches essential skills while also making the process less stressful for the animal.

Marry Me Chicken

This skillet chicken recipe with sun-dried tomato and an oregano cream sauce is so good that it's liable to inspire nuptial invitations!

Meet Maya Marie

In Brooklyn, New York, Maya Marie grows food in her backyard and in borrowed spaces and teaches others to do the same.

LIMBER TIMBER

You won't have to lumber over that brush pile with these tips.

GATE KEEPERS

Livestock fencing keeps your animals in and predators out.

Adventuring Into Herbalism

Gardening is a journey that offers intriguing detours

HANS HANSEN

The hybridizer

Memories to Share

WE CAN GROW TREASURED PLANTS TO HONOR THE GARDENERS WHO TAUGHT US

'JAMES ROOF' GARRYA

Espalier shows this unique shrubs' drooping catkins to best effect

contain your ENTHUSIASM

Pots are the place to experiment, says expert designer Christina Lalwitz

Some Like It HOT

THESE 12 ROSES SAIL THROUGH STEAMY WEATHER-EVEN THAT OF SOUTH FLORIDA

HARVEST TIME!

Niki's tips for picking vegetables at their peak

PINEAPPLE LILIES!

EUCOMIS ARE A SWEET SUMMER FEAST FOR THE EYES

A TIME TO SOW

Though it may need years to take hold, the interest in gardening can be planted early

A LASTING IMPRESSION

FAVORITE LONGBLOOMING PERENNIALS FOR A CONTINUALLY COLORFUL GARDEN

FRIENDLY COMPETITION

In his new book, garden designer Benjamin Vogt explains the dynamics of plant combinations and more

11 Easy-to-Dry Flowers

Drying flowers doesn’t have to be complicated. To get beautiful colors and sturdy blooms, sometimes it’s just a matter of choosing the right ones and using simple techniques. Erin Howell-Conner, manager of Howell’s Greenhouse & Pumpkin Patch in Cumming, Iowa, knows a lot about this process. She’s been designing with flowers she has grown and dried herself all her life.

THE EVER-CHANGING GARDEN

Learn how one gardener transformed an erosion-prone landscape into a striking flower-filled oasis.

Help Drought-Proof Your Garden

If you're tired of watering to keep your garden going through a hot, dry summer, take a few tips from Denver Botanic Gardens' Panayoti Kelaidis.

Reader Tips

GREAT IDEAS FROM SMART GARDENERS

Hardy Hibiscus

These impressive blooms bring drama and a touch of the tropics.

3 Invasive Tree Pests to Watch

It is devastating when a tree loses the battle with an insect pest, leaving a hole in the landscape that can't be refilled quickly. Sadly, many trees fall prey to invasive insects-here are three destructive ones to watch.

Blast Off With Bright Color!

Peer at an individual flower from the inflorescence of Starship Scarlet lobelia, and you might be reminded of a hummingbird hovering in flight.

VEGETABLES to Plant Now for a FALL HARVEST

Extend the growing season with a second planting of fast-growing and cool-season crops!

DESIGN DILEMMAS

WE'VE ALL BEEN THERE: Struck by the unexpected beauty of a plant at the garden center, in a flurry of inspiration, we grab other beautiful companions, purchase them all, and head home full of grand plants and visions but no real plan. Sometimes it works out, and many times it doesn't because designing a garden takes attention to nuts and bolts: the hows, wheres and with-whats. What dilemmas do you face? Flip through the following pages of inspiring photos and get practical solutions to your garden woes. Improve your garden's layout, add function, color it with your personality, and find that perfect fix that boosts your garden from good to better to best. Let's get started!