Gardening 101

Brian had never shown much interest in growing. He was looking at gazebos - a place to enjoy the ponds and gardens on his property outside Chicago. Then he saw Nordwood...

Every winter someone posts a photo of a greenhouse that went down under snow. It's almost never the panel that failed - more often it's the anchoring, or a door...

Dan has spent his whole life building. He trained as an architect - six years of it - and runs his own crew in Rhode Island. At the far end...

There are a couple of weeks every year when the garden looks finished and isn't. The tomatoes are going over, the light has changed, the whole thing has the feel...

We build a lot of greenhouses. Every so often, though, we build one that isn't trying to be practical first and pretty second - it's both at once, in equal...

Some wood rots in five winters. Some wood shrugs off thirty. The difference usually isn't the tree - it's what happened to the timber before it reached your garden. And...

For the last few months, Gustav has been on the road across the US - in backyards nurseries, in garden centres - sitting with greenhouse owners and asking one question: what...

Bob lives in Arizona at 5,000 feet, on land that backs onto national forest. It is the kind of setting most people picture when they imagine leaving the city behind...

Every spring, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) publishes its Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, better known as the "Dirty Dozen" and "Clean Fifteen." It ranks the produce most and least...

Most people use their greenhouse for about half of what it can do. The usual thinking: the garden wakes up in spring, peaks in summer, winds down in fall, and...

Lavender belongs in a field. Open sky, full sun, fast-draining soil, dry Mediterranean air. It is not an obvious greenhouse plant. But a greenhouse solves three specific problems that outdoor...

Nate runs Norway Homestead - a property where he grows his own food and tries to rely less on grocery store prices. A greenhouse had been on the list for years. He...