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Community Gardening 101: How to Water Rachael Brown

Community Gardening 101: How to Water

Gardeners take water for granted—until it's scarce. A guide to keeping vegetables happy with a precious resource.

Community Garden, or Gardening Community? Rachael Brown

Community Garden, or Gardening Community?

Gifts of plants, shared tools, and neighbors who pitch in remind a gardener that plots raise relationships as well as crops

Summer Harvest: Are We There Yet? Rachael Brown

Summer Harvest: Are We There Yet?

Two novice gardeners worry about timing, and experience the challenge of tending verdant biological clocks

Good Things Come to Those Who Garden Rachael Brown

Good Things Come to Those Who Garden

A new gardener is reminded to learn to wait—chives may be up and ready, but the rest of the garden is just sprouts

Seeds Into Shoots Rachael Brown

Seeds Into Shoots

Rain and unseasonable heat threaten a home gardener's community plot, but the first signs of crops emerge. Too bad a green thumb doesn't prevent weeds.

In the Garden: Out with the Old, In with the New Rachael Brown

In the Garden: Out with the Old, In with the New

Old crops and weeds make way for planting—and the hope that April plowers will bring May sprouters

Call Me "Gardener" Rachael Brown

Call Me "Gardener"

An agricultural neophyte girds herself with research and sets out for a new destination: an 11- by 14-foot plot

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