Old-Fashioned Annuals
Forgotten Annuals Our Grandmas Used to Grow If you could travel back in time to your grandmother’s or great-grandmother’s time,Continue Reading
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Topdress Annually for a Top Quality Lawn
For a beautiful lawn like you see in home and garden magazines, topdress annually with 1 inch (2 cm) of compost.Continue Reading
Polyploidy—or How Do We Get Seedless Fruit?
By Christine Bradish, Ashland Inc. It’s quite possible that you have seen a commercial for “23 and Me”, advertising anContinue Reading
A Beluga in My Garden
Actually, the lower lump of dirty white in the photo is not a beluga, although I think it looks likeContinue Reading
The Levitating Fern Certainly Spins, But Is It Alive??
Years ago, in the 1970s, a “plant” called the air fern was all the rage. It was said to thriveContinue Reading
Peonies That Make Scents
Question: I have been looking for scented peonies for five years now. Every year, I go to the nursery, I smellContinue Reading
A Simple Way of Thwarting Potato Beetles
Here’s a simple, but effective way of keeping one pest out of your plants! To avoid the Colorado potato beetle, LeptinotarsaContinue Reading
A Handy Dandy Soil Sifter/Plant Lugger
Here’s handy recycled garden tool: a plastic bakery tray, also called a bread tray, with a grid bottom. You canContinue Reading
Lasagna Gardening: A Backyard Guide for Beginners
A Guest Blog by Jeff Antilla of Redfin Looking to cook up your own lasagna garden? Okay, maybe there’s no cookingContinue Reading
Start Hardening Seedlings Off Early
Where I live, this spring has been exceptionally cold and I’m nowhere near acclimatizing any seedlings to outdoor conditions, butContinue Reading