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Gardening

The part of the house that changes every week. Kitchen gardens, mature trees, drainage, and what a yard asks of you after you own it.

Raised bed kitchen garden with dahlias beside a stone Pennsylvania home

Southeastern Pennsylvania · 6 min read

The first garden year

What a new Pennsylvania yard asks of you in the twelve months after closing, and the two things worth doing immediately.

A mid Atlantic garden of native perennials with a gravel path, mature shade trees at the edge and a simple wire deer fence

Lancaster and York Counties · 9 min read

A Susquehanna Valley garden you can actually keep

Working with the rainfall, the clay, the mature shade and the deer instead of against them, and ending up with something better than the garden you were fighting for.

An overgrown spring garden with peonies, a brick path and a woman kneeling with clippers

Lancaster and Chester Counties · 6 min read

The garden you inherit

Buy an older Pennsylvania house and you buy someone else's forty years of planting. The first rule is to wait a year before you dig anything up.

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Gardening

The first garden year

A Susquehanna Valley garden you can actually keep

The garden you inherit

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