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Lavender is one of the most beloved herbs for gardens. With its aromatic foliage and gorgeous blooms, this Mediterranean plant adds beauty and fragrance wherever it’s planted. While lavender thrives in warm climates, it can also grow well in colder areas if given the proper conditions. When incorporating lavender into garden beds and borders, there … Read more

Country Living editors select each product featured. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Why Trust Us? Whether youre designing a new garden or want to boost your existing gardens aesthetic, incorporating edging is a way to highlight the garden area and add more personality. Creating borders or garden edging establishes … Read more

The only thing better than enjoying the produce from your garden is planning your garden. I could spend hours looking through seed catalogs, checking out the latest garden equipment, drawing maps of what my garden might look like, and, naturally, thinking about the best type of wood for raised beds. After all, you want something … Read more

I once heard a radio interview with the person at NASA who recruits candidates into the astronaut program. At one point in the interview the host asked the expert a simple question, “What qualities make someone a good potential astronaut?” Now with such a question I expected a long treatise on the engineering brain, the … Read more

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There are many useful mulches to use on the garden bed. Some help retain moisture, as does the gravel garden bed. Gravel beds are something you won’t see in every garden, but they can provide something different … Read more

Raised beds can be as humble or as elaborate as you would like. The benefits of raised garden beds include better soil drainage, easy access to plants, portability, soil customization increased soil control, and also the ability to keep weeds and pests at bay. You can easily DIY raised beds from recycled materials you might … Read more

Snails can be a major nuisance in garden beds, destroying crops and ornamental plants overnight. With their rasping mouthparts, these slimy mollusks chew irregular holes in leaves, flowers, stems, and fruits of many vegetables and ornamentals, such as beans, cabbage, lettuce, and strawberries. If you’ve had problems with snails in your garden, it’s time to … Read more

When I first started working as a garden consultant, I thought that garden design was just figuring out the best spot to place a wooden box. Now, I know that there are dozens of ways to plot out your kitchen garden space to combine form and function, including our most classic and tested layout options: … Read more

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Happy Spring! Now that seedlings are sprouting and flowers are beginning to bloom, Bismarck gardeners are eager to start preparing their garden beds. If you haven’t built any raised garden plots in your yard yet, then now is the time to do so! While some, hardier veggies prefer direct-seeding into the ground, many prefer the … Read more