Garden Guide

HERE'S A SAMPLING of just some of the great information included in our new Garden Guide that will help make this your best gardening year ever!

  • Table of Contents

  • Editor's Note

  • Landscape Design

  • Plan a new flower garden. Enjoy three easy garden designs, two for sun and one for light shade.
  • Plant a rock garden or add some stepping-stones or a patio to your backyard. Here are many wonderful plant suggestions that will thrive between rocks and stones.

  • Ornamentals

  • Try some succulents for low maintenance and high drama. Their shapes, colors, and textures also make them valuable landscaping plants.
  • Explore the beauty of a poppy garden. Poppies come in many colors, sizes, and shapes. Many bloom from spring through the summer.
  • Grow some ravishing roses, the world's most popular flower. Get growing tips from the Austins, England's famed experts.

  • Vegetables

  • Plant your vegetables in containers for more control and higher yields. Learn from simple suggestions for pots and vegetable combinations.
  • Try a “pizza” garden this year. Plant ‘Milano’ tomato, ‘Carmen’ sweet pepper, and oregano in a container.

  • Fruit

  • Learn how to grow beautiful melons, from honeydews to casabas and seedless watermelons.
  • There are three secrets for success with melons: warm soil and air temperature, full sun, and well-drained soil.

  • Reference

  • In addition to a manure guide, fertilizer tips, and a guide to growing herbs, we have included an extensive Sources List to help you order plants and products mentioned in this issue.
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