Plant Care and Summer Vacations
June 28th, 2016
How do you keep your plants from dying while you’re away on summer vacation? Here are 10 ways to leave your flowers…
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What Blooms When in Central Pennsylvania
May 7th, 2016
Trying to pull off a landscape that looks good all season long and not just for two weeks in May? This list of plants arranged by when they bloom — month by month — will help with your planning.
Musical Chairs – The Plant Version
April 5th, 2016
Don’t feel like a failure if you keep having to move plants. It’s part of “editing” and making your landscape better and better. Plus, plants like to take a ride in the wheelbarrow every now and then…
Bubble Your Way to a Yard You Actually Use
March 1st, 2016
If you’re spending more time mowing the yard or just looking at it than actually using it, it’s time to rethink the way it’s designed.
One Less Garden Show
February 16th, 2016
The Pennsylvania Garden Expo has been canceled for 2016 and may be gone for good.
To Till or Not to Till?
December 15th, 2015
The conventional wisdom of tilling the garden at the end of season is wrong, at least when it comes to water pollution and managing the No. 1 plant nutrient, nitrogen.
Winter, Here We Come
November 24th, 2015
Winter can be rough on plants. What to do? Maybe nothing. Or maybe mulch, water and burlap barriers — but but not the product that people think helps the most…
Gardeners and Non-Gardeners Don’t See Things the Same Way
November 10th, 2015
Gardeners and non-gardeners don’t usually see things eye-to-eye. Is a tree a beautiful living thing or a messy headache? Is a bee beneficial or threatening? Is weeding relaxing or maddening?
Pruners Don’t Compost Well
October 27th, 2015
I can now verify first-hand that pruners don’t compost very well. But what, you may ask, was I doing with pruners in my compost pile?
Smarter Than the Average Squirrel?
September 22nd, 2015
Animals might foil our vegetable gardens sometimes, but in the long run, we can outsmart them. Can’t we?