A WAY TO GARDEN TURNED 10 IN MARCH 2018, plenty old enough to have a “greatest hits” list. And here it is: the top-50 stories of all time (plus 25 more for good measure), based on what readers clicked on most. Enjoy!
- the tricky matter of when to harvest garlic
- what to plant now for a fall vegetable garden
- how to freeze parsley, chives and other herbs
- when to start seed
- tips for growing better tomatoes from seed
- farm-fresh peaches, frozen to perfection
- growing potatoes organically: when and how to plant, hill and harvest
- growing and storing a year of parsley
- Dan Koshansky’s refrigerator dill pickles
- 10 thoughts on successful underplanting
- what’s in pickling spice? some recipes
- why vegetable seedlings stretch and get spindly
- 6 lessons about hosta, with Tony Avent
- hot plant: Stewartia, an ideal small tree
- when to start what: vegetable-seed calculators
- there’s more than one way to ripen a tomato
- the toughest groundcovers I rely on
- slideshow of my 54 top shade plants
- what weed is it? putting names to pesky plants
- grow healthy tomatoes: staking and pruning
- garden prep: how to make a bed, with cardboard
- just saying no to deer, with fencing
- how to grow carrots, with dr. john navazio
- estimating viability: how long do seeds last?
- growing and storing a year of garlic
- beloved conifers: weeping alaska cedar
- from the forums: pruning viburnums
- skins-on easy tomato sauce to freeze
- when inner conifer needles turn yellow or brown
- soil-saving tricks for planting big pots
- clafoutis batter, universal solvent of fruit dessert
- 10 tips for growing blueberries in the backyard
- how to grow garlic, a q&a with Filaree Farm
- slideshow: 10 great groundcovers to rely upon
- beloved conifer: Japanese umbrella pine
- cucumber-growing q&a, and the best pickles ever
- mulch faq’s
- how trash helps me save on potting soil
- overwintering rosemary, indoors and out
- my top conifers for year-round garden beauty
- garlic harvest and curing: i did something right
- fear not! how to prune clematis, with Dan Long
- tomato-growing faq’s
- when the normally tough peony fails to bloom
- the oddball houseplant Bowiea volubilis
- hugelkultur, nature’s raised garden beds
- growing a better tomato, seed to harvest
- caterpillar alert: who’s eating my cabbage and broccoli?
- an easy annual poppy, Papaver somniferum
- growing fancy-leaf begonias, indoors and out
- brrrr! overwintering tips for tender plants
- great shrub: bottlebrush buckeye
- pruning faq’s
- great shrub: Fothergilla, a multi-season star
- how to grow the best-tasting tomato
- how to store garden vegetables for winter
- in season: easy asparagus-parmesan bake
- fall planting: 21 powerhouse perennials I’d order
- let there be sweet potatoes: how to plant them
- here (finally!) come the hellebores
- 12 trees and shrubs for great fall foliage color
- voila! my first orchid reblooms
- Lee Reich’s blueberry-growing how-to
- organic lawn care with Paul Tukey: crabgrass control, reducing compaction
- growing (or just eating!) heirloom dry beans
- pruning lilacs
- baked pears for breakfast, or maybe dessert
- everything old is new: ‘green’ posters from the WPA
- great shrubs: a roundup of some favorites
- copper or purple beech, a tree worth waiting for
- radio podcasts: itunes, stitcher, stream, live
- a plant I’d order: Hakonechloa ‘All Gold’
- 12 top composting faq’s
- tomato-troubles faq’s
- battling mice and voles (but never with mothballs)
Want more? Margaret’s list of her 21 madcap favorites is here.