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In My Garden

with Cindy

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🌿 How-to

Practical guidance for building, planning, tending, and learning in a backyard garden—one season at a time.

Assorted fruits, vegetables, roots, and herbs from a home garden

Assorted fruits, vegetables, roots, and herbs from a home garden

Fruit or Vegetable?

In the garden, the answer depends on what you’re trying to do with it.

Cindy

3 min read

A green garden hose kinked and tangled on a lawn.

A green garden hose kinked and tangled on a lawn.

Watering the Garden Without Wrestling the Hose: Drip Irrigation

A personal look at watering the garden with simple drip irrigation—no more hose wrestling.

Cindy

3 min read

Open grid-lined garden notebook with hand-drawn bed layouts and handwritten notes, used for planning and tracking a home vegetable garden.

Open grid-lined garden notebook with hand-drawn bed layouts and handwritten notes, used for planning and tracking a home vegetable garden.

Garden Planning: From Graph Paper to App

From a well-worn grid notebook to a thoughtfully designed app, this article explores how garden planning evolves—and how the right tools can grow with you.

Cindy

4 min read

Close-up of powdery mildew forming white patches on cucumber leaves, a common late-summer fungal disease in zone 6 gardens.

Close-up of powdery mildew forming white patches on cucumber leaves, a common late-summer fungal disease in zone 6 gardens.

Managing Powdery Mildew Without Losing Your Mind

When powdery mildew arrives, I take it as a cue to harvest what’s abundant, trim what’s tired, and let go without regret.

Cindy

4 min read

Cattle Panel Arched Trellis

Cattle Panel Arched Trellis

Cattle Panel Arched Trellis

Arched cattle panel trellises gave my garden vertical structure—and an unexpected sense of delight as the vines climb overhead.

Cindy

3 min read

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