Yard & Garden

Magazine articles on gardening and yard work.

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National Gardening Warren Schultz	Building Great Soil Soil is the most important factor in successful gardening. Here are tips on evaluating and improving your soil.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Early Bloomers Need a fix of flowers to offset the drab colors of winter? Just step outside. By pruning branches from many common deciduous trees and shrubs, you can create beautiful indoor bouquets to serve as harbingers of spring.
National Gardening Karen Dardick	Shrub Roses Many kinds of shrub roses have been introduced in recent years, especially the ground covers, such as "Cliffs of Dover," "Flower Carpet" and "Jeepers Creepers."
National Gardening	Getting Started With Perennials First, we dispel a common myth: You don't need to be an expert gardener to grow perennials. Then we answer a few common questions about perennials.
National Gardening	Herb Gardening 101 An essential addition to many recipes, herbs are easy to grow and well worth the effort. They also enhance gardens by adding color, interesting forms, and rich or subtle fragrances.
National Gardening	Planning a Low-Maintenance Landscape Landscapes that require minimum time and money to maintain require thoughtful planning and installation. So invest early in planning and structures, and you'll pay (and work) less later.
National Gardening	Choosing Tomato Varieties Healthy, vigorous tomato vines can produce a lot of fruit. But of the thousands of varieties available, how do you narrow your choices?
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Bottom Heated Flat for Seeds Seeds germinate faster and seedlings grow better when they have heat around their roots. And you can build a simple, heated seed-starting box from scrap materials found around the house. Here's how one gardener did it.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	EZ Pick Fruit Trees These naturally dwarf trees grow only 6 to 10 feet tall, are easy to care for, and are perfect for small families. Available in apple, peach, pear, and other varieties.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Tropicanna Canna This new canna is a flamboyant beauty that can add a striking tropical look to your garden -- with or without flowers.
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