7 Best Mulching Methods for Desert Gardens

Best Mulching Methods for Desert Gardens

Your soil is cracked. Your water bill is terrifying. And your tomatoes look like sad little raisins by mid-July. If you garden in the desert, you already know that the rules everyone else follows don’t apply to you. What works in a Pacific Northwest raised bed will absolutely destroy your Tucson garden — and nothing … Read more

13 Keystone Plants to Save Your Dying Summer Garden

Keystone Plants to Save Your Dying Summer Garden

By mid-July, most home gardens look like they’ve given up. The lettuce bolted in May, the petunias are crispy, and that cheerful spring bed you photographed for Instagram is now a graveyard of brown stalks and broken dreams. I’ve been there — more times than I care to admit. One particularly brutal August, I stood … Read more