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Dropped Leaves Don’t Always Mean Dead Trees

November 2nd, 2021

   Tree leaves that brown around the edges, develop spots, shrivel, and even drop prematurely worry a lot of gardeners.    After all, healthy leaves are supposed to stay on our trees until they turn color in fall and drop naturally, right?    When that doesn’t happen – as it did in a lot of […]

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Before and After: Dejungling My Almost Landscape

October 26th, 2021

   It’s hard to believe three years have gone by since my wife and I moved from our long-time home (and gardens) in Cumberland County to the suburbs of Pittsburgh.    The house we bought was in worse shape than it looked, and we’ve spent a ton of money and sweat equity fixing everything.    […]

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The Best Vegetable Varieties

October 11th, 2021

Which variety of veggie you grow makes a big difference. Not all tomatoes are created equal. Cornell University has done some excellent work attempting to determine today’s best veggie varieties. Here’s what Cornell recommends…

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Are Lawns Horrible?

October 5th, 2021

   I detect a growing sentiment – apparently a corollary to the native-plant and save-the-pollinators movements – that we all should stop growing lawns.    It seems to go beyond just shrinking lawn space in favor of something more useful into a belief that lawns are downright evil.    I’ve gleaned smatterings of that the […]

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New Life for the Vegetable Garden

August 31st, 2021

   Labor Day shouldn’t mark the beginning of the end for the vegetable garden.    As spring-planted summer crops are harvested or wind down, new crops can take their place to keep the veggie plot chugging along well into fall.    With a little protection, some of them can even keep producing into early winter. […]

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How Much Grass Seed Are You Really Getting?

August 24th, 2021

   You might assume that a bag of grass seed contains all or mostly grass seed, but if you pay attention to the labels, you’ll find that’s usually not the case these days.    Many bags of retail grass seed contain only half grass seed with the rest made up of fertilizer, coatings, fillers, and […]

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Good Plants I Can’t Grow

August 17th, 2021

   No matter how much you know about plants or how many right things you do, sometimes plants just die.    Like it or not, it’s a fact of gardening.    A lot of the time, easy expiration is a shortcoming of particular plants, such as how dwarf Alberta spruces are spider-mite magnets, or how […]

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Failure to Thrive

August 3rd, 2021

   Plants sometimes just aren’t happy where you put them.    Good plants just sit there and seemingly sulk, barely growing or worse – starting down that road to a slow death.    Once you realize you’re dealing with a “failure-to-thrive” situation, the best thing you can do (usually) is dig up the plant and […]

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How Native Do You Have to Go to Make the Birds and Bees Happy?

July 27th, 2021

   The designers of Penn State Arboretum’s new Pollinator and Bird Garden leaned heavily on research to determine the features, layout, and plant selection of this three-acre garden, which opened last month just down Park Avenue from Beaver Stadium.    Spots of it are very colorful already.    But what struck me during my opening-day […]

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New Native Garden and Sculpture Park Opens in Perry County

July 6th, 2021

   Bill and Jane Allis just built a home garden in Perry County that they’ve decided to share with everybody.    It’s called The Bower, and it’s a new combination native-plant sanctuary and sculpture park that covers 36 acres in the Carroll Twp. countryside not far from Shermans Dale.    Six of those acres is […]

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