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How to work your garden and not vice versa
How to set gardening goals you can achieve without getting stressed out.
Getting your garden ready for winter
How to get your garden ready for winter, from compost to fig trees. And what are those pawpaws everyone is talking about?
Still time to plant fall crops
It’s not too late to plant a few crops yet this year.
Wildfires cast a pall over local gardens
Wildfires screen sunlight, affecting plants photosynthesis. Another downside of the fires is it can keep some gardeners inside just when their gardens need them. Find out how to garden safely when the skies are smoky.
Gardening with Xpress: Summer’s bounty and bugs
Heat, sun and bugs take their toll on summer gardeners. You can toil away by timing your work and dressing the part.
Gardening with Xpress: How to promote growth in underachievers
Cool nights are taking a toll on heat-loving veggies such as peppers, corn, tomatoes and eggplant. You might want to tuck them in at night.
Gardening with Xpress: Composting: the hotter, the better
The trick to composting is keeping the temperature high to kill unwanted seeds.
Gardening with Xpress: Managing tiny but formidable flea beetles
Tiny flea beetles are here to stay, and will affect your garden to some extent. But organic gardening is about finding balance, not controlling nature for our benefit alone.
Gardening with Xpress: Climb aboard the spring-weather roller coaster
Gardeners and farmers are some of the first folks to be impacted by climate change. We pay attention to the temperature, sun, wind, rain, and rhythms of the living world. And when things like weather become more erratic or unpredictable, our crops feel it. Wild weather is becoming more and more the norm, so it will behoove us to learn to adapt.
Gardening with Xpress: Tips on snakes and seeds
Spring is nearly here, but slow your roll when it comes to planting. Oh, and those snakes you saw in the garden? More than likely they’re friends, not foes.
Gardening with Xpress: On curing sweet potatoes and protecting figs against frost
For this year’s final set of queries, Chloe Lieberman addresses ways to cure sweet potatoes, options for excess leaves and ideas for keeping your figs warm amid frosty nights.
WNC explores tiny homes as housing solution
Western North Carolina leaders have been thinking big when it comes to the region’s affordable housing crisis, with Buncombe County alone aiming to create or preserve up to 3,150 affordable units by 2030. But when it comes to actually building those spaces, some in the area are also thinking small.
Gardening with Xpress: On blueberries and plastics
This month we’re exploring best practices for growing blueberries and safe ways to use plastics as part of your gardening toolbox.
Gardening with Xpress: Cucumbers, peppers and eggplants — oh, my!
This month’s column features tips for when to pull summer plants, ideal peppers to grow in our region and best ways to preserve eggplant.
Gardening with Xpress: Tips for growing squash
This month’s column features tips for growing squash, as well as ways to reduce voles from eating into your bounty.
Gardening with Xpress: A time to kill and to water
Green greetings! As it really warms up, I hope you’ve been enjoying baskets of goodness from your gardens. This month’s questions were, unsurprisingly, about bugs and water — two major themes of summertime gardening. A reminder to email me your questions at gardening@mountainx.com. I look forward to hearing from you! Fat little green caterpillars are […]
Gardening with Xpress: What to do with all those dandelions?
In her latest monthly feature, local garden expert Chloe Lieberman addresses questions about fertilizers and weeds.
Gardening with Xpress: Leaf mulch, mushroom compost and dahlias!
In this month’s gardening feature, local expert Chloe Lieberman explores the qualities and uses of leaf mulch versus mushroom compost, how to separate and plant dahlia tubers and some tips for caring for dahlias once they’re in ground.