Weeds Off to a Happy Start
April 12th, 2012
The warm start to 2012 has boon to weeds as well as cool-season plants. Winter annuals such as chickweed, creeping veronica, purple dead nettle and hairy bittercress are flourishing.
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Hershey Gardens Turns 75
March 27th, 2012
Hershey Gardens opens for the season this coming Saturday (March 31), and it’s a milestone year for our area’s only botanical garden. 2012 marks the 75th year since chocolate icon Milton Hershey decided to build a “nice garden of roses” on the hillside just below Hotel Hershey (and now overlooking Hersheypark). I’m […]
Composting, George Style
February 20th, 2012
Composting is the single most important thing you can do to become a better gardener. Piles shouldn’t be stinky eyesores if you know a few basics, such as…
Warmer Gardens
February 6th, 2012
The USDA updated its Hardiness Zone Map for the first time since 1990, and the new data shows most of the country has warmed by about half of a growing zone on average.
10 Favorite Garden Catalogs
January 17th, 2012
I like to shop locally and support Pennsylvania small businesses whenever possible. But sometimes I’m looking for offbeat stuff or unusual varieties that I can only get online or via mail-order. An excellent web site for consumer reviews of these and just about all other mail-order companies is the Dave’s Garden website. […]
What’s Wrong With My Plant?
January 13th, 2012
So many things can go wrong with a plant… animal munching, weather woes, assorted bugs and disease and lots more. Here’s a primer on how to be a do-it-yourself plant detective to figure out what might be going wrong…
Fruits You Can Actually Grow at Home
January 11th, 2012
Home gardeners often give up on fruit fast when they find out how hard it can be to grow a decent apple or peach. What not many realize is that there are lot of much easier fruits to grow that we just don’t know about because they typically aren’t available at the supermarket. Here’s a look at some of the worthy lesser-knowns as recommended by fruitsman extraordinaire Lee Reich…
Confused Plants
January 10th, 2012
I was out inspecting the botanical troops over the weekend, and two things struck me. One is that the landscape is unusually colorful for this time of year. And second is that some of my plants are doing odd things they’re not supposed to be doing in early January. A nice surprise […]
Why Didn’t My Shrubs Bloom?
January 9th, 2012
It’s both disappointing and mysterious why shrubs all of a sudden stop blooming – or decide never to bloom in the first place. The reasons can be many. Here they are…
Forcing Branches
January 7th, 2012
Why wait until spring to see those gorgeous flowers open all over your landscape shrubs. Through an easy technique known as “forcing,” you can get cut branches to flower in winter inside the house.