Gardening Guides

A gardening guide should tell you what to do, in what order, and how to know it worked. That is the whole job. Every guide below is structured that way: what you need, what you do, what usually goes wrong, and how to tell you are on track.

We write for the gardener who has a weekend, a hose and a reasonable amount of patience, not for a botany exam. Where a rule of thumb is genuinely good enough, we give you the rule of thumb. Where it matters (watering depth, soil temperature, spacing), we give you the number.