The Best Place to Grow Herbs
I’ve done the following several times when I give gardening lectures about herbs. I ask participants how many planted herbsContinue Reading
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No Bees, No Fruit!
Growing your own fruit trees and small fruits is an exercise fraught with unexpected complications and one of the mostContinue Reading
Tommacio™: Sweet Raisin Tomatoes
Here’s a totally different kind of tomato you might want to try, especially now that the plants are becoming moreContinue Reading
A Dual Purpose Hummingbird Feeder
First, let me warn my readers from outside of the Americas that there are no hummingbirds where they live. AndContinue Reading
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
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