It would be so much easier if wildlife read all the information printed about them, wouldn’t it? But we just can’t fool Mother Nature. So,…
Read MoreThere isn’t a website, garden magazine or gardening book that doesn’t say, “contact your local Extension service to have your soil tested.” This gardening advice…
Read MoreI know we all have the itch — no, I am not talking about that winter dry skin, but the itch for gardening. Once the…
Read MoreSawdust … you find a pile in a cupboard or by a baseboard in your home. Outside you see a hole (or more) in your…
Read MoreIt happens every year, just after the peach trees leaf out in the spring, I get a number of calls from home growers that their…
Read MoreThere was one column topic that I had more feedback about than all the others last year –Milk Jug Gardening: Wintersowing. And it wasn’t all…
Read MoreI don’t know about you, but I stopped making New Year’s resolutions years ago. I instead just try to improve myself (no one else) a…
Read MoreSay yes to snow and ice. For our soils, it is vital. Mother Nature decided our present this year should be a real character builder.…
Read MoreDo you feel it? We have made it over the hump. Not a Wednesday, mid-week hump, but the big one –the Winter Solstice. Now, every…
Read MoreIf you need to get away, just for a minute for the holiday madness, they are waiting for you. Just outside. The birds of winter.…
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