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100 Garden Tips and Timesaves
Brooklyn Botanic Garden All-Region Guides
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Gardening Techniques
- Deadheading Annuals for Repeat Blooms
- Pinching for Compact Plants
- Saving Seeds of Annual Flowers
- The Benefits of Raised Beds
- Extend the Season With Cold Frames
- A Moss Carpet for Shade
- Keeping a Moss Lawn Tidy
- Low-Maintenance Hedges
- Pruning for Proper Hedge Shape
- When to Prune Flowering Shrubs
- Pruning Hybrid Tea Roses
- Rejuvenating Flowering Shrubs
- Take Advantage of Microclimates
- Grow Drought-Tolerant Plants
- Harvesting Rainwater
- Keeping Track of Rainfall
- Plastic Jug Irrigation
- Supporting Tall Flowers
- Protect Tree Trunks With Plants
- Edging Beds and Borders
- Containing Aggressive Plants
- Giving Caladiums a Head Start
- Spring-Bulb Basics
- Improving the Soil
- Winter Rye as a Cover Crop
- What to Do With Autumn Leaves
- Compost Fundamentals
- Making Compost Last Longer
- A Recipe for Compost Tea
- Lasagna Gardening
- What, When, and How to Mulch
- Making Use of Wood Ash
- Pest Controls
- Attracting Birds, the Ultimate Insecticide
- Safe, Easy Insecticidal Soaps
- Saving Seedlings With Cutworm Collars
- Cabbageworm Protection
- Keeping Slugs Under Control
- Deer Deterrents That Work
- Using Kitchen Supplies to Control Weeds
- Propagation
- Making More African Violets
- Dividing Clumps of Herbaceous Perennials
- Overwintering Plants With Cuttings
- Making More Woody Perennials
- Keeping Seeds Viable
- An Easy Way to Start Seeds
- Thinning for Healthy Seedlings
- Garden Design
- Creating a Garden Plan the Easy Way
- Providing Fall Color With Hardy Annuals
- Keeping Borders Colorful
- Creating Vertical Accents
- Low-Maintenance Plantings for Slopes
- Fast-Growing, Moveable Screens
- Liven Up Fall With Ornamental Grasses
- Nurture a Self-Sown Garden
- Making a Moon Garden
- Easy Monochromatic Gardens
- Container Gardening
- Container-Gardening Tips
- Great Plant Combos for Pots
- Getting Creative With Containers
- Growing Herbs in Small Spaces
- Mini-Vegetables for Containers
- Overwintering Potted Plants
- Making the Most of Portable Pots
- Gardening Indoors
- Make Your Cut Flowers Last
- Dry Flowers for Winter Bouquets
- Forcing Bulbs for Winter Bloom
- Paperwhite Narcissus: The Easiest Indoor Bulb
- Harvest Veggies From Your Windowsill
- Fresh-Picked Herbs Year-Round
- Overwintering Tender Perennial Herbs
- Safe and Easy Pest Control
- Make Your Poinsettias Last
- The Best Way to Water Houseplants
- How to Water While You're on Vacation
- Vegetables
- Weed-Free Asparagus Beds
- Harvest Beans All Summer Long
- Making More Broccoli
- Increasing Your Corn Crop
- Interplanting Corn and Pumpkin to Save Space
- Temporary Greenhouses for Seedlings
- Getting a Bumper Crop of Long-Season Veggies
- Double Your Harvest With Intercropping
- Hardy Vegetables for the Late-Season Garden
- Protecting Vegetables From Late-Season Cold
- Jump-Starting Onions, Shallots, and Garlic
- Grow Shallots in Raised Beds
- Late-Season Planting of Alliums
- Supporting Peas
- Storing Hardy Vegetables
- Six Ways to Support Tomatoes
- Ripening Tomatoes Indoors in Fall
- What to Do With a Bumper Crop
- Vertical Vegetable Gardening
- Trash to Treasure
- Compost Bins Made of Reused Materials
- Golf-Bag Tool Carrier
- Herbal Place Cards
- Homemade Soaker Hose
- Mailbox Garden Storage
- New Lives for Clay Flowerpots
- Panty Hose "Rope"
- Reusing Toy Wagons
- Index and Contributors