About How Gardens Work

Help for the garden you live with.

Grow vegetables and herbs, work out what’s going wrong, improve the space or compare materials before you spend.

Start with a first garden

Useful guidance starts with your garden

Start with the conditions you have.

Your sunlight, growing space, weather, budget and appetite for upkeep shape which guidance fits.

How Gardens Work brings those choices together so you can decide what to do next without wading through a report.

Pots and plants filling a sunny apartment balcony — A garden can begin on a sunny balcony

Hands lifting and checking soil in a garden bed — Checking the soil below the dry surface

Explore the publication

Four ways to begin

GrowChoose vegetables, herbs, planting times and care that fit the season and space.Grow something → SolveUse visible clues and simple checks before choosing a treatment.Check a problem → ImprovePlan beds, paths and projects around the site and the upkeep.Improve the space → BuyCompare products and materials by fit, full cost, upkeep and repair.Choose well →

Founder

About the founder

Benjamin Morrison — Founder, Landscape Architect and Horticulturist.

How Gardens Work is a US-focused gardening publication for homeowners and renters. It covers growing, plant problems, garden improvements and buying choices, with the aim of leaving readers with a useful next step.

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