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Logan Hailey

Logan Hailey is a passionate garden writer and former ecological farmer. She has a BS in sustainable horticulture and has been featured by MSN.com, Thrillist, and Apartment Therapy as well as many other major news outlets for her gardening expertise.

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Flowers

How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Lobelia

Add a splash of rare blue blossoms to your spring and fall flower gardens with lobelia. In this article, former organic farmer and horticulturist Logan Hailey shows you how to cultivate dazzling lobelia plants.

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Gardening Tips

10 Ways to Spend Less Time Weeding

No one wants to spend hours on their hands and knees yanking weeds from the garden. This back-breaking work isn’t only tedious but also takes up valuable time you could devote to planting, harvesting, or smelling the flowers. Gardening expert Logan Hailey explains ten ways to spend less time weeding your garden!

A ladybug rests on a yellow umbel flower. ready to prey on pests like aphids.

Garden Pests

How to Plant a Biocontrolled Garden to Regulate Pests

How do you keep aphids, hornworms, and other garden pests in check without nasty sprays or tedious hand-picking? Nature’s ancient food webs can help you create a self-regulated garden that acts like a natural ecosystem. Biocontrol, or biological control, is a pest-control method using natural predators and other organisms to keep pests in check.

put fall garden to bed

Gardening Tips

9 Tips for Putting Your Fall Garden to Bed

Summer’s vibrant days have passed, and you probably have some wild tomato plants, rotting squash, or overgrown herbs filling your garden. In temperate zones, autumn is a time for enjoying your final harvests and preparing for winter rest. In this article, gardening expert Logan Hailey shares 9 tips for putting your fall garden to bed!

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Vegetables

How to Hand Pollinate Tomatoes in Your Garden

Tomatoes are among the most popular and exciting vegetables to grow in your garden, but what should you do when your plants are only producing flowers and no fruits? These juicy red (or orange, yellow, or purple) fruits require pollination from wind and bees, or in some cases, humans. If your tomato plants are dropping flowers or failing to produce fruit, you may need to hand-pollinate them to ensure you grow a harvestable yield.

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Herbs

15 Tips for Herb Gardening in Small Spaces

You don’t need a massive garden or greenhouse to grow an impressive herb garden. With the right varieties, proper care, and innovative space-saving techniques, you can produce an abundance of fragrant herbs without much space at all!