Tom White

Tom writes about gardening and outdoor maintenance in the one place that makes both hard: sandy soil, salt air and a wind that flattens anything soft. He weighs every plant and every repair by how it will hold up in the worst weather, not by how it looks in a catalogue. Expect frank pros and cons, hardy choices first, and a windbreak before the soft stuff behind it. Work with the coast rather than against it, he says, and it feeds you for years.