Gardening by the Yard

Master gardener Paul James shares some garden-focused New Year's resolutions. He discusses dormancy in plants, how to store fruits and vegetables, and how to heat a compost pile in the winter.

Master gardener Paul James shares tips for getting a flower bed ready for spring and greenhouse growing. An arborist demonstrates how to keep trees in shape.

Master gardener Paul James explains why soil makes the difference between a bountiful garden and an unproductive one. He also discusses matching your new landscape to your new home and offers advice on preparing for winter.

Master gardener Paul James does some late-winter garden chores, offers tips on checking out the landscape if you're buying a new house and explains how to give ornamental grasses a winter trim.

Master gardener Paul James gets started on landscaping his new place, offers tips on cleaning up after storm damage and explains why trees started in containers may have problems when transplanted.

Master gardener Paul James shows how to make a lawn more lush using a technique called overseeding. He also discusses hostas, solicits suggestions from a tree professional and explains how to get rid of pesky weeds on a patio.

Master gardener Paul James talks about two of his favorite spring plants: azaleas and dogwoods. He shares tips on starting a moss garden, discusses automatic sprinklers and honors one of the world's most used tools, the trowel.

Master gardener Paul James presents tips and tricks for spring gardening, explains how to attract birds with plants recommended by the National Audubon Society and uses container plants to solve landscaping problems.

Paul James offers planting tips, looks at common plant-buying mistakes and walks through the process of building a dry-stream bed to solve drainage problems. He also shares the virtues of weeping varieties of trees.

Master gardener Paul James describes his new vegetable garden, presents the simple geometry involved in finding a tree's height and offers tips on how to use stone in the garden. He also discusses microclimates.

Master gardener Paul James gives a tour of his garden in June, discusses planting a rock garden and highlights one of his favorite plants, coreopsis.

Master gardener Paul James offers suggestions about projects in July. He discusses pest plants, building stone steps and various types of garden furniture. He also shares creative uses for broken pots.

Master gardener Paul James shows off water projects and walks through building small ponds. He offers advice on fighting drought in the yard and talks about palms.

Master gardener Paul James discusses transferring tropical plants indoors for winter, examines legal questions sometimes encountered in gardening and explains why the sow bug is often misunderstood.

Master gardener Paul James talks about how to make the best use of automatic sprinklers by satisfying the plants, homeowner and water conservation concerns. He also explains some common gardening terms.

Master gardener Paul James goes through the process of building a compost system and talks about finding the right tool for root removal.

Master gardener Paul James begins making compost in a new three-compartment bin, offers tricks for scaring off garden pests and suggests ways to clear a gutter. He also visits his father to talk about his pecan tree.

Master gardener Paul James explains how to protect plants during the winter with a number of techniques, from planting next to south-facing masonry walls to using closed-cell foam blankets.

Master gardener Paul James discusses cold- and shade-tolerant pansies and visits with expert Joe Schulte.

Master gardener Paul James talks about the dangers of overwatering and overfertilization and suggests ways to keep houseplants healthy in the winter. He also discusses novelty garden projects.

Master gardener Paul James shares tips for selecting and caring for living Christmas trees and suggests ways to turn poinsettias into year-round plants.

Master gardener Paul James talks about various types of mechanical spreaders that provide fast and uniform distribution of fertilizers. Then he discusses the three ways plants are grown.

Master gardener Paul James talks about techniques used in training trees to grow straight and strong or to bend in specific directions. He covers slapping the trunk, pulling branches apart with spreaders and staking with twine.

Master gardener Paul James presents a mix of gardening points of interest, from galls to spiny sew thistles. He also talks about using plant labels to help remember what you've planted where.