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jessica damiano The Garden coach

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Gardening success means avoiding these common mistakes

Much of gardening is learned by trial and error -- mostly error. Here are the most common gardening blunders -- and how to avoid them.

7 tips for growing giant tomatoes
As 13-year host of The Great Long Island Tomato Challenge, I learned the secrets of growing competition-worthy tomatoes directly from the champions — and I’m pulling back the curtain in my latest AP gardening column! Here's how to grow a whopper!

Not all shade is the same: Gardening where there’s little sun

Gardening in the shade doesn’t have to mean limited plant choices and lack of color. The first step is understanding which type of shade you have. Click in for guidance and plant suggestions. 

Sunflowers!

Homegrown sunflowers are popular, native and, for some, newly meaningful. Learn how to grow them— and how to harvest and roast their seeds. 

Native alternatives for invasive plants
Purple loosestrife is an invasive thug that threatens the ecosystem. In fact, it should be removed if it’s growing in your garden. But fear not: Liatris spicata, right, is a beautiful and well behaved substitute! My latest AP gardening column offers native alternatives for 7 more garden bullies. 

Go native 

If your idea of the perfect garden includes abundant plants that do well with little human intervention, while attracting and supporting all manner of pollinators, plant natives. here how to get started. 

Old-Fashioned flowers worth revisiting

Eight vintage garden flowers to plant for charm and fragrance. 

Filling raised beds? Save money—and grow better—with Hugelkultur

Hugelkultur is a different, more natural (and cheaper) approach to raised beds or mounds that doesn’t require so many bags of top soil or compost. Instead, you fill the space with organic matter that gradually decomposes, feeding the soil and plants. Here’s how.

Growing veggies in small spaces

Smaller new varieties can yield great results for vegetables grown in containers.

Plants to plant in spring for a beautiful garden next winter

When you’re planning and planting your spring garden, think ahead to next winter too, and include plants that will create interest in your landscape in the so-called “off season.”

Black innovators who reshaped American gardening and farming

The achievements of 19th-century scientist George Washington Carver have landed him in U.S. history textbooks, but many other agricultural practices and innovations that traveled with enslaved people from West Africa or were developed by their descendants remain unsung. Here’s a look at five.

Tips for indoor seed-starting

When to start planting seeds indoors? First, check your frost date. 

Experienced

 I'm a garden consultant, designer and trained master gardener with 15 years' experience offering expert planting, growing and troubleshooting advice to home gardeners in my award-winning, nationally syndicated Newsday Garden Detective column.

If you prefer to do your own gardening, but need some horticultural hand-holding, I will evaluate your property, test your soil, suggest and  help select the right plants for the right place and off er planting and  design advice. Then, if you'd like, I can come back and provide tips and advice for maintaining your investment and keeping your garden  healthy and beautiful.

I Care About the Details

 If you have a vision, I'll help you realize it. And if you don't, I'll suggest plantings and garden styles to match your taste, needs and garden conditions.

Either way, you'll end up with beautiful beds, borders or containers brimming with seasonal color, annuals and perennials.

Prefer edibles? I'm an expert vegetable grower and can provide guidance for selecting, planting, tending, harvesting and even cooking your bounty. 

Trustworthy

 I don't sell plants and I don't do landscaping, so you can trust my advice isn't self-serving. You'll never have to worry about a conflict of interest.

My only goals are to help you help yourself and save you from costly mistakes.

Whether  you just want an impartial expert to bounce ideas off before beginning a  gardening project, or prefer season-long coaching and guidance to reach your  garden's full potential, you'll decide when to take your own training  wheels off.

Sessions are billed by the hour, regardless of the type of planning, advice or guidance provided.

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