My LATEST ap gardening columns
I started writing an internationally distributed gardening column for the Associated Press in January 2022. Prior to that, I spent 15 years as Newsday's "Garden Detective" columnist, fielding reader questions, writing gardening how-tos, profiling exceptional local gardeners and reporting the gardening beat.
To keep up with the latest gardening news and trends, you can always find my latest AP gardening columns here.
More topics I've written about
- Are your evergreens turning brown? That might or might not indicate a problem. Here’s what you need to know.
- How to help housplants reacclimate indoors after their summer vacation
- There’s a movement to ‘leave the leaves’ in gardens and lawns. Should you do it?
- If it seems like there are a lot of acorns this fall, you might be seeing a ‘mast’ year
- Spooky plants for your goth garden (and Halloween!)
- How to grow your own cup of coffee -- indoors!
- Rose hips provide a pop of fall and winter color – plus a yummy ingredient for teas and jams
- Dahlias, they’re easier than you think
- How to help migrating hummingbirds and see their antics up close
Easy houseplants for neglectful gardeners - The mutant tomatoes are here, and they come in peace
- Annuals are the loyal friends every gardener can use
- Invasive and ubiquitous, English ivy can hurt trees and plants. Removing it isn’t easy.
- Fire-resistant and flammable plants: What you need to know
- Deer and rabbits and voles, oh my!
- Heat-tolerant plants and practices for a warming climate
- Where flooding has become more common, here's how gardeners can respond
- Are ants in your plants harmful?
- Extend your season with succession planting
- A little prevention goes a long way to combat garden pests and diseases.
- How to grow pawpaws, the exotically delicious, sadly underplanted N. American native fruit trees
- How to grow a cutting garden
- How to grow Rhubarb
- How to save water in the garden
- How to save your garden from wildfire smoke and ash
- How to plant containers like a pro
- Hardening off seedlings, an essential step in your spring gardening routine.
- Why No Mow May is a terrible idea
- How to grow an herb garden
- How and why to test your soil’s pH level
- How to select climate-resilient trees to plant
- How to Go easy on your body while gardening
- How to plant a meadow
- Five apps and phone features to help identify plants and problems
- How some of DC's cherry blossom trees have defied their age
- Itching to start spring cleanup? Not so fast!
- Bradford pears, once the darlings of suburbia have become rude invasives. Learn how to manage them -- and get my recommendations for better-mannered alternatives to plant instead.
- Philadelphia Flower Show
- Botanical Latin
- New plants for 2023
- Moon gardens
- Toxic plants and cut flowers to avoid if you have pets
- Pretty but toxic: Watch toddlers around these houseplants
- What's that green stuff on my tree?
- It's in fall, not summer, that leaves show their true colors
- How to protect a fig tree over winter
- How to make Bokashi compost
- Six favorite conifers and the cones they produce
- Time to study up: 35 gardening terms everyone should know
- How to prepare your soil in fall for spring planting.
- Save Your Mums: How to care for your mums so they return next year.
- Jumping worms — How to recognize and prevent their spread.
- Everything you ever wanted to know about planting and growing garlic
- How to save flower seeds
- Growing food indoors from kitchen scraps
- Fall houseplant care
- Gardening doesn’t stop just because it’s fall: Some tips
- How to collect and save vegetable seeds
- Turning a sidewalk strip into a curb appeal
- Stressed Lawns
- Mosquitoes.
- Harvesting potatoes
- Attracting birds to your garden
- Monarch butterflies are in trouble
- Troubleshooting in the vegetable garden
- Fall crops to plant now
- Gardening in drought?
- Alternatives to store-bought fertilizer are all around you
- The new blended garden: Going native one step at a time
- Pollinator-friendly pest control
- Protecting your garden before and after severe storms
- Best, worst companion plants
- Gardening success means avoiding these common mistakes
- 7 tips for growing giant tomatoes
- Gardening in shade
- Sunflowers
- Native alternatives for invasive plants
- Go native
- Old-Fashioned annual flowers worth revisiting
- Filling raised beds? Save money—and grow better—with Hugelkultur
- *Growing veggies in small spaces
- Plants to plant in spring for a beautiful garden next winter
- Tips for indoor seed-starting
- Black innovators who reshaped American gardening and farming
- Houseplant trends for 2022
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