I hope you’re ready for the onslaught of fall planting promotions. It’s either happening right now or coming to a media outlet really, really soon in your neighborhood. We’ll get to listen to the glories of gardening in the fall.

But if you’re at all like me, you’re somewhat tired of gardening and all the necessary gardening chores. It seems like I’ve been dragging hoses through the heat forever across miles of gardens. I’ve watered enough heat-struggling containers to last me this season indeed. I’ve hand-bombed truckloads of mulch, skids of paving stone, piles of topsoil in building new raised beds and planted the same number of perennials I used to plant 30 years ago when setting in my commercial trial gardens.

And yeah, fall is a glorious time of the year – cool, insect-free, colorful in its own way and I have no problems with those who still have enthusiasm for bashing soil and plants around. Go for it.

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This is such a clever idea, especially if you live in a small apartment and need to stash up on multifunctional gear. Here’s Lean, a chair with rails for its back…nothing path breaking so far; but drag it to your radiator and hitch it to lean onto it, and hey! you have a stand to dry your clothes! Super neat and super useful, especially if made with the right kinda materials. De

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Traditional Minimalist Design, 127 House in Barcelona, Spain by H Arquitectes 01

H Arquitectes Successfully complete the concept to make a home for children. Located in Barcelona, Spain. Designed with attention to the urban situation as described seeks to recover the compositional values of the traditional facades of most of the houses in the surrounding area. This project is called the 127 House.

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“Garden Writers Today” is a website (www.digplantgrow.com) for garden writers (duh) that’s been created to help the garden writing community.

More importantly, it’s been created to help the readers of gardening websites, which is even more important.

They wrote to me and other garden writers across the web asking, “What Can ‘Garden Writers Today’ Do For Me?”

Since the main reason that I keep this blog is for you to help encourage and inspire you to start growing your own food, I pass along this question to you. What can “Garde

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This is the second of the garden design video series where I show you how to design a garden that blooms all summer.

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