TOMATOES AND GARLIC and things for the shade. Tricks for success with seeds, and for putting up the harvest so it lasts. No surprise that those were among the subjects that made the hit parade again this year–tactical help, and great plants.
Note: Pages like my overall “About page” and the listing of all my Garden FAQ pages always do well, but I’ve removed them from this list as they’re not individual stories, exactly. The other big multi-story hit: the monthly Garden Chores archive.
Here’s what rated top billing in 2014:
your top 50 of 2014
- What to plant now for a fall vegetable garden
- The tricky matter of when to harvest garlic
- Freezing parsley, chives and other herbs
- When to start seeds: a calculator
- Tips for growing better tomatoes from seed
- Growing potatoes organically: plant, hill, harvest how-to
- When to start what: vegetable seed calculators
- Why vegetable seedlings stretch and get spindly
- Things I didn’t know about Hosta, with Tony Avent
- Farm-fresh peaches, frozen to perfection
- Growing and storing a year or parsley
- More than one way to ripen a tomato
- What’s in pickling spice? Some recipes
- Prevent tomato disease: good tomato hygiene
- 51 top shade plants (slideshow)
- Skins-on easy tomato sauce to freeze
- How to grow garlic, with Filaree Farm
- 10 thoughts on successful underplanting
- Dan Koshansky’s refrigerator dill pickles
- 10 tips for growing blueberrries, with Lee Reich
- Soil-saving tricks for planting big pots
- How to grow the best-tasting tomato
- Say no to deer with fencing
- How to grow carrots, with Dr. John Navazio
- Growing and storing a year of garlic
- How long do seeds last? Estimating viability
- When inner conifer needles turn brown
- The toughest groundcovers I rely on
- Garden prep: How to make a bed with cardboard
- Cucumber growing, and the best pickles
- What weed is it? Putting names to pesky plants
- How trash helps me save on potting soil
- Stewartia, an ideal small tree
- Overwintering rosemary, indoors and out
- Top conifers for year-round beauty
- Remembering my man Jack
- How to prune clematis, with Dan Long
- Tips for designing a garden
- Tomato-growing FAQs
- Mulch FAQs
- An easy annual poppy: Papaver somniferum
- Lee Reich’s blueberry-growing how-to
- Battling mice and voles (but never with mothballs)
- Hugelkultur, nature’s raised garden beds
- How to grow kale, with Sarah Kleeger
- Easy asparagus-Parmesan bake
- Fothergilla: a multi-season star shrub
- Baked pears
- Brassica pests: caterpillars on broccoli, cabbage and more
- Herbed roasted tomatoes to freeze, with Alana Chernila
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Margaret, your site is wonderful and one of my favorites. Thanks for all the great information, pictures, and fun.
Merry Christmas!
Loved receiving all these posts this year. Thank you Margaret!
Thank you for your kind wishes, Vanessa, and happy new year to you!