All Things Gardening discusses a recent National Garden Bureau article that pairs Zodiac signs with the plants and flowers that complement them best. Plus, a potting soil solution for dryness.

You're a Libra? Here's a rose! Astrological signs and their matching flowers

Each week, Charlie Nardozzi joins Vermont Public’s Mary Engisch for a conversation about gardening, and to answer your questions about what you're seeing in the natural world.

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This Earth Day, embrace some more Earth friendly gardening practices, like reusing plastic pots, forgoing pesticides and planting pollinator friendly lawns.

Honoring Earth Day through everyday gardening habits

With bigger and more frequent rain events brought on by human-caused climate change, you can either raise up your garden or try planting things that thrive in wetter conditions.

As climate change brings more frequent rain events, these plants fare well in wetter areas

Spring greens can add brightness and flavor to your meals. Forage for some wintercress or dandelions or cultivate new types, like rapini and upland cress.

For a new twist on spring greens, cultivate rapini and sorrel

Instead of traditional tilling, or turning of the soil to prepare it for spring planting, the "no-dig" method is just that. No digging keeps the billions of helpful microbes intact in the soil. It could lead to fewer weeds and healthier soil and plants.

No-till gardening keeps helpful microbes in your soil for fewer weeds and healthier plants

When and how to prune hydrangeas can really help set up the plant for better blooms.

You're a Libra? Here's a rose! Astrological signs and their matching flowers

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