Contents
10 - Editor’s Note
12 - A Gardener’s Calendar
16 - Quirky Q&A’s
Landscape Design
22 - 3 Pleasing Plots by Nancy J. Ondra
30 - Catch the Rain by Robin Sweetser
Edibles
34 - A Beginner’s Guide to Beginning Vegetable
38 - Bend and Stretch Before You Begin
40 - How Much Water Is Enough?
42 - Make Room for Heirlooms by Georgia Orcutt
46 - Grow Vegetables in Containers
48 - Vegetable Companions
50 - Plants That Repel Pests
52 - The Best Times to Fertilize Vegetables
53 - Manure Guide
54 - Harvest a Fiesta by Robin Sweetser
62 - Reach for the Rhubarb
Ornamentals
64 - The Power of Peonies by Cynthia Van Hazinga
76 - A Carpet of Green by Cynthia Van Hazinga
80 - Sweet! by Robin Sweetser
88 - Use Less Water by George and Rebecca Lohmiller
97 - How to Control Weeds
98 - Love in Bloom by Cynthia Van Hazinga
104 - Up on the Roof by Lisa Palmer
Do-It-Yourself
114 - Good Gourd! by Patricia Stephen Clark
120 Container Mania
Reference
122 - USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
123 - Frosts and Growing Seasons
124 - Sources List
126 - Classifieds
128 - Index
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