Is shade gardening easier than sun gardening?   I think it is… but I guess it depends on what sort of shade garden you have.   That’s not to say that I think shade gardening is easy.   It still takes planning and arranging and tending and rearranging.  Soil still has to fit the plants.  Mulch needs [...]

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Our biggest worry with square foot gardening was that things would be too crowded, too shaded and too…. everything. Well, so far it’s doing great. So far the only casualty has been sage. We have no idea why that died. The other has been basil, but they’re not dead, only growing much slower than usual – probably because they’re a little shaded. Everything else is healthy and thriving.

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First, I’m ditching the global stuff. I’m going to concentrate on my home area, which is the Ardmore neighborhood of Winston Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina USA. That’s the narrowing. As often as I can, I’m going to write about what we’re doing in our garden and in our neighborhood. I’m going to go to other gardens in this city and interview their gardeners. I’m going to write about garden shops, stores and greenhouses in our area as well. With photos

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  So that’s pretty much it for the overall planning process.  Take note of what you’ve got, decide what you want, justify that with what’s possible, divide the whole into areas.  Now what?  Well, logically, you do one area at a time.  But we aren’t Vulcans (Star Trek reference), so there’s a big problem with [...]

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