a way to garden’s top garden stories of 2016
YOU KNOW THE ROUTINE: I run the numbers, then share what stories you clicked on most in 2016. I’ve made two lists this time: one of the most popular things that were published all year, the other of most popular over all.
The latter includes vintage articles that thanks to strong search traffic get tens of thousands of clicks apiece (or more) each year in seeming perpetuity–beating out “new” things until some of those hopefully achieve the search-engine sweet spot, too. Drumroll, please:
2016’s top ‘new’ things
- Power shopping the seed catalogs with Joseph Tychonievich
- Using native perennials in a formal border, with Mt. Cuba’s Travis Beck
- How to grow spinach, with Tom Stearns of High Mowing
- Making sourdough starter, with Sarah Owens
- Know your weeds, with Richard Dickinson
- 6 easiest orchids to grow, with Longwood’s Greg Griffis
- Gift ideas: roundup of stuff I actually use
- 3 gifts any gardener will treasure
- Time-tested perennials, with Kathy Tracey of Avant Gardens
- Meet Bob, the new “cat” in my life
- Getting creative with succulent hens and chicks, with Kathy Tracey of Avant Gardens
- Productive fall and winter vegetable gardens, with Niki Jabbour
- Nuisance wildlife control, with Marne Titchenell
- Proactive fall vegetable cleanup, with Chanticleer’s David Mattern
- Growing and blooming Clivia, with Longwood’s Alan Petravich
2016 hits (the classics, thanks to search traffic)
- The tricky matter of when to harvest garlic
- How to freeze parsley, chives and other herbs
- 10 tips on successful underplanting
- When to start seeds: garden calculator
- What to plant now for a fall vegetable garden
- Growing potatoes organically: how to plant, hill, harvest
- When inner conifer needles turn yellow or brown
- Slideshow: 54 top shade plants
- Why vegetable seedlings stretch and get spindly
- Growing and storing a year of garlic
- How to ripen a tomato
- Tips for growing better tomatoes from seed
- Growing and storing a year of parsley
- What’s in pickling spice? Some recipes
- Farm-fresh peaches, frozen to perfection
Do you know where the planter in the upper right corner (has the assortment of mostly sedums in it) is from? It is beautiful and exactly the kind of modern but traditional planter I’ve been looking for. Thanks for a reply!
I can ask Katherine Tracey of Avant Gardens, whose planter it is. I suspect if you search for “Campania martini glass planter” you will find things like it from Campania, one really nice manufacturer.