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All Stories by Story Category : Gardening Tips & Techniques

A first-aid kit for gardeners is thoughtful and helps keep them safe

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

A New Year, A New Compost Pile

  • Annie Spiegelman

Aesthetic pruning of trees and shrubs

  • Dave Phelps

Aging gardeners can continue their passion with a few tweaks

  • D.F. Braun

All Stars for your Garden

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

Are weeds foes or friends?

  • Dave Phelps

Autumn in the Garden

  • Wendy Irving

Autumn’s treasure of leaves

  • Karen Gideon

Bare bones about bareroot roses

  • Nanette Londeree

Bare root plants are primed to grow

  • Diane Lynch

Be kind to to your plants' roots so they can thrive

  • Martha Proctor

Be sure to protect yourself if you’re heading outdoors

  • Faye Mark

Before you fertilize, stop and think: Do you really need to?

  • Nanette Londeree

Best gardening mistakes I ever made

  • Marie Narlock

Biodiversity loss and climate change: partners in environmental crime

  • Marie Narlock

Breaking down the mystery of composting

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

Breaking up is NOT hard to do

  • Karen Gideon

Broom is not our garden friend

  • Diane Lynch

Build and protect your soil

  • Nanette Londeree

Can a sustainable garden be beautiful?

  • Marie Narlock

Celebrate Earth Day every day with Earth-friendly Gardening

  • Julie McMillan

Choose Your Mulch Wisely

  • Nanette Londeree

Clay soil is a mixed blessing

  • Marty Nelson

Compost, mulch and amendments help replenish soil

  • Martha Proctor

Confessions of a first-time composter

  • Juliana Jensen

Control disease spread in your garden

  • Marty Nelson

Crazy weather and your trees

  • Nanette Londeree

Dig in to your garden info

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

Dogs in the garden

  • Diane Lynch

Don’t be alarmed about mushrooms in your garden

  • Marty Nelson

Dormant season pruning

  • James Campbell

Earth friendly and easy fall garden tips

  • James Campbell

Feed your garden well

  • Jane Scurich

Feeding the garden that feeds you

  • Marie Narlock

Feeling stressed? Go outside and get dirty

  • Marie Narlock

Five water-saving solutions for Marin gardeners

  • James Campbell and Ron Filson

Flowers but no Fruit? Suspect pollination problems.

  • Marty Nelson

Food for thought about fertilizing

  • Nanette Londeree

For a bounty of roses, prune now

  • Nanette Londeree

For healthy soil, leave it alone

  • Nanette Londeree

Friends among plants

  • Marty Nelson

Frost

  • Martha Proctor

Frugal gardening through propagation

  • Peggy Ruffra

Garden Myth Busting

  • Marie Narlock

Garden soil needs a healthy balance

  • Martha Proctor

Garden tips from the Internet – fact or fiction?

  • Jane Scurich

Gardeners’ favorite tools

  • Diane Lynch

Gardening for a future of climate change

  • Barbara Robinson

Gardening for the birds

  • James Campbell

Get into grafting

  • Jane Scurich

Get the most out of your fertilizer

  • Nanette Londeree

Give your garden TLC with mulch

  • Martha Proctor

Go ergonomic with your tools

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

Going to pot: Plants grown in containers need extra love

  • Doris Gates

Good gardens start from the ground up

  • Martha Proctor

Good mulching boosts soil and adds beauty to your garden

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

Got mulch? Add it to your garden for many benefits

  • Julie McMillan

Great places to learn about gardening

  • Marie Narlock

Healthy soil has just the right nutrients in the right amounts

  • James Campbell

Here’s the real dirt about soil

  • Nanette Londeree

Honor thy tools

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

How not to smother your beloved plants

  • Karen Gideon

How to care for those tiny, often forgotten, creatures in your soil

  • Marty Nelson

How to create a sustainable garden

  • Marybeth Kampman

How to create a truly low-maintenance garden

  • Marie Narlock

How to determine what makes your soil healthy

  • Martha Proctor

How to encourage the miracle of a healthy garden

  • Martha Proctor

How to find the right plant for the right spot

  • Anne-Marie Walker

How to hire an arborist

  • Alanna Hickey

How to propagate plants

  • Marie Narlock

How to prune ornamental grasses

  • James Campbell

In praise of weeds

  • James Campbell

Invigorate perennials by division

  • Anne-Marie Walker

Is biochar right for your garden? The answer is complicated.

  • Barbara Robertson

It’s all about the soil

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

It’s bare root season!

  • Alanna Hickey

It’s easy to grow a family garden

  • Jane Scurich

Keep on gardening on

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

Keep your roses healthy during drought

  • Nanette Londeree

Keeping plants healthy with propagation

  • Jane Scurich

Knowing how to create a defensible space is key

  • James Campbell

Lasagna composting is like comfort food for your soil

  • Jane Scurich

Learning how to save seeds may help species facing extinction

  • Martha Proctor

Lights, camera, (low-stress) garden!

  • Marie Narlock

Live and let live: Overgrown plants can bring unexpected beauty

  • Jennifer Kinion

Many plants thrive in the shade

  • D.F. Braun

Meet us at the Fair!

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

Moving beyond sustainability starts at home

  • Dave Phelps

Mulch, a good return on your garden investment

  • Nanette Londeree

Native grasses, sedges and rushes soften transitions

  • Karen Gideon

Navigating nurseries - 10 tips to avoid buyer’s remorse from a trip to the nursery

  • Alice Cason

Ouch! Plants sunburn, too!

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

Paying Attention to Mushrooms

  • Sandra Massen

Pesticides aren’t all bad

  • Nanette Londeree

Planting trees too deep, what could go wrong

  • James Campbell

Plants are cleaning machines

  • Diane Lynch

Plants don’t always play well with others

  • James Campbell

Plants have an active social life

  • Marie Narlock

Plants to avoid

  • Marie Narlock

Poisonous plants

  • Sara O’Keefe

Potted plants can keep gophers at bay

  • Juliana Jensen

Practical ways to grow a more resilient garden

  • Anne-Marie Walker

Preventing Erosion

  • Marty Nelson, edited by Susan Saltzman

Primer on Pruning

  • Julie Monson

Propagate native plants to beautify garden and support wildlife

  • Anne-Marie Walker

Providing Drainage – the Spaces in Between

  • Barbara Euser

Prune roses now for that big bloom in spring

  • Nanette Londeree

Prune your camellias, rhododendrons and azaleas with care

  • Jane Scurich

Pruning & leaf stripping of roses

  • Martha Proctor

Pruning Australian natives in spring

  • James Campbell

Pruning roses for spring growth

  • Dave Phelps

Pruning your conifers

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

Raking your leaves? Here’s why you may not want to

  • Karen Gideon

Roses need TLC, too, in the winter

  • Nanette Londeree

Saving seeds: select, collect, store, and share

  • Alice Cason

Saving your pumpkin seeds

  • Juliana Jensen

Seasonal benefits of cover crops

  • Dave Phelps

Seed libraries offer roots to the past

  • Jane Scurich

Seeds hold the miracle of life, so save, swap and share them

  • Marilyn Geary

Selecting and Caring for Garden Tools

  • Jennifer Kinion

Share the love — and the plants

  • Jane Scurich

Sheeting mulching can be forgiving way to improve soil

  • Martha Proctor

Sick soil syndrome can wreak havoc in your garden

  • Barbara Robertson

Simple steps to a greener garden

  • Nanette Londeree

Skip the chemicals

  • Nanette Londeree

Small scale composting: vermicomposting

  • Jill Williams

So Much to Share

  • Dot Zanotti Ingels

Solving Soil Problems

  • Dave Phelps

Spring is coming; time for a garden makeover

  • Karen Gideon

Starting seeds, a closer look at starting your spring garden

  • Alice Cason

Sunburn also plagues plants

  • Barbara Robertson

Taking vital signs in your garden

  • Marty Nelson

The chill factor – when cold is good for your plants

  • Wendy Irving

The dangerous beauty of poisonous plants

  • Nanette Londeree

The Full Scoop About Fertilizers

  • Nanette Londeree

The full scoop about soil amendments

  • Nanette Londeree

The miracle of cover crops

  • Alice Cason

The mysteries of plant sex

  • Marty Nelson

The no dig garden - the art and the science of gardening with nature

  • Terry Amerson

The Rusts

  • Nanette Londeree

The science behind crop rotation

  • Marty Nelson

The Seeds They are a Changing

  • Annie Spiegelman

The time to plan for summer veggies is now

  • Fay Mark

The wonder of seeds

  • Diane Lynch

This year, resolve to do less in the garden

  • Marie Narlock

Timing, technique play key role in dividing perennials

  • Martha Proctor

Tomatoes are fun and easy to grow

  • Diane Lynch

Turn garden into sustainable landscape

  • Anne-Marie Walker

Understanding what's below your plants will help keep them healthy

  • Martha Proctor

Variegation can add variety to your garden

  • James Campbell

Victory gardens for seniors

  • Karen Gideon

Want to help mitigate climate change? Treat your soil like gold.

  • Marie Narlock

Ways to be water-wise

  • Ron Filson

What do plants do?

  • Marie Narlock

What makes a plant invasive?

  • James Campbell

What to consider when buying a plant that will thrive

  • Martha Proctor

What's in a name? Everything

  • Martha Proctor

What’s in your compost?

  • Fay Mark

What’s wrong with my plant?

  • Nanette Londeree

Wildlife… what they need to eat

  • Diane Lynch