Do you have a difficult spot in your yard where it’s challenging to grow attractive plants? Perhaps a low to mid-height flowering groundcover will help! Read more here– Weed Suppressive Ground Covers (cornell.edu) Tough ...
Read More
Finally, your plants are ready to place in your outdoor garden. You have patiently nurtured your seedlings and hardened off the young plants. Now it’s time to get them into the ground. Hopefully the ...
Read More
Spring is here and it’s time to start germinating those seeds your drooled over in seed catalogs this winter. If you are lucky enough to have a sunny windowsill, fluorescent growth lighting or a ...
Read More
With all those gorgeous pictures and lush descriptions, how is a gardener to choose? Here are some tips. First, do NOT dive into that pile and start filling out order forms. DO put on ...
Read More
Espalier, a French word derived from the Italian spalliera, which means “something to rest the shoulder (spalla) against,” is the art, or process, of controlling plant growth in a flat plane, usually against a wall ...
Read More
While fall can signal the beginning of the end of the gardening year, it doesn’t have to. Home gardeners have several options when it comes to extending the vegetable gardening season and growing fall ...
Read More
Plum, Prunus domestica, is a deciduous tree in the family Rosaceae grown for its edible fruits. The plum tree has an erect growing habit with a spreading canopy. It possesses large, thick, oval-shaped leaves ...
Read More
Peaches have been grown in Asia for more than two thousand years, and produced for centuries in the United States. Peaches are considered the “Queen” of the fruits and second only to apples in ...
Read More
Blueberries are a somewhat unique plant that you can grow. The blueberry bush is an attractive ornamental plant also. The foliage is shiny green in summer and turns a deep red and yellow in ...
Read More
July marks the beginning of the second half of the vegetable gardening season. Fall vegetables may be grown from seed or transplanted in July and August, then harvested during the months of September, October, ...
Read More
