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Planting for a Fall Harvest
When the temperatures cool down, your garden can still thrive. Just because it’s nearly the end of summer doesn’t mean your gardens can’t still bloom into the fall. In fact, many plants actually thrive...
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Fall Lawns: Overseeding and Repair
Lawns take a beating during summer. The longer days, the heat, and the increased use and activity all make it difficult for grass to thrive. Ironically on the flip side, shade can be even more damaging...
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Cleaning the Fall Lawn and Garden
Give your lawn and garden a Fall clean-up. Think of it as spring cleaning in reverse. Fall cleaning is an important part of maintaining healthy lawns and gardens during the cold months ahead – so they...
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Fall Herb Harvest
To Everything There is a Season After months of planting, tending and growing, it is now time to reap what we have sown. An author once wrote that harvesting herbs can be an odd blend of glamour and...
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Mulching For Fall and Winter
Fall Mulch Gives Your Lawn and Garden a Winter Blanket. With the cold winter temperatures starting to close in, one of the easiest and cheapest ways to keep your lawn and garden healthy is by mulching....
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Plant Spring Bulbs…Now?
Yes! Fall is the time to plant bulbs if you want to see crocuses peeking through the snow or tulips dotting your garden next spring. Even though many of us are experiencing cool weather and thinking of...
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Winter Gardening Chores
Gardening doesn’t end when the growing season does. I have a great checklist of winter gardening chores that keep me enthusiastic and involved in my garden even in the off-season. Make Your Move Prune...
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Gift Ideas for Your Gardener
‘Tis the season to be giving … and I happen to know a name you can count on for innovative, high-quality garden items that every gardener loves: Mine! The Garden Weasel! Our products are also a lot of...
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Winter Warm-ups: Exercises for Gardening
As we all know, gardening can be physically demanding. Our bodies can get out of shape even after just a few months off during the winter months. Whether you are still needing to get in shape, are...
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The Secret to Starting Seeds
I’ll be honest with you — starting vegetable seeds indoors is not rocket science, but it’s also not entirely easy. It’s a little bit like raising little kids: they need daily attention and nurture, but...
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Pre-Season Checklist
Even while you may still see snow on the ground or feel the chill of winter in the air, you can be working on your garden from the comfort of your favorite chair by the fire. Picturing, planning and...
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Soil testing – Can you dig it?
We love to focus on what is growing above the ground, but it’s what’s below it that can make all the difference. What on earth is so important about dirt? Dig down into it and you’ll find soil is...
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Pruning – What, When, Where and How
Pruning is not just for expert rose tenders or expensive tree trimmers. Electric hedge equipment makes bushes temporarily look nice and neat, but “trimming the bushes” is actually a lot more work than...
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Time to Plant Warm Season Vegetables
As spring wrestles itself out of winter, it’s time to think about planting warm season vegetables which include some of the classic garden favorites: tomatoes, peppers, beans, sweet corn, melons, peas...
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Winning the War on Weeds
In the best of times, weeds are a landscape menace. But if weeds are allowed to gain the upper hand in the spring, you’re in for a long year of battling the noxious, unwanted “guest.” When you go on...
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10 Ways to Protect Your Garden Against April’s Cold Snaps
“April showers” may be more famous than “April cold snaps” because of a cute garden rhyme that gets passed down from generation to generation, but if we don’t fend off the frost and freezes that come...
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Fertilizer 101: When & How to Feed a Hungry Lawn
Is fertilizer a good feast for your lawn? Yes and no. Just like with our own food intake, too much, too little, the wrong combination of stuff, quality and timing all affect how healthy we are, so it...
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Homestead Gardening: Eat What You Grow
I don’t know if it’s a trend or just a really good idea that is catching on, but “homestead gardening” is increasing in popularity and interest groups are forming all over the country. The term...
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Create Drama in Your Garden: Plant Summer Bulbs Now
Spring bulb flowers like tulips, daffodils and crocuses seem to steal all the limelight when it comes to bulbs, probably because their glorious appearance is such a welcome herald of warm weather and...
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Creative Composting
Composting is the ultimate garden version of the “trash to treasure” concept. We can literally turn our trash (potato and carrot peels, unused fruit and veggie ends, coffee grounds, etc.) into organic,...
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