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December 15th, 2012
How do you design a garden from scratch? Or maybe you just want to pep up your current look? Get designer Diana Kirby's tips from the ground up. On tour, see how Molly O'Halloran and David Brearley turned a parking lot yard into a garden, including the best ever chicken coop. Daphne Richards explains the difference in soil, compost, and mulch. Her pick of the week is Salvia greggii 'Cardinal Velvet'. John Dromgoole selects cover crops to improve your vegetable garden soil.
Plant of the Week: Cardinal Velvet
Tips of the Week
- Be ready to cover cold-tender vegetables and other frost-sensitive plants
- Do not use plastic to protect your plants in freezing temperatures
- Plant trees, shrubs, and cold-hardy perennials
- Plant roses
- Avoid pruning evergreens as we approach freezing weather
- Water new plants and trees deep into the soil so it's not dry ground as we head into freeze
- More Tips
Question of the Week
What's the difference between soil, compost, and mulch?
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