Those Browning Houseplants
January 21st, 2014
That browning you see at the tips and edges of houseplant leaves is usually fixable by repotting into a better potting mix and avoiding softened and chlorine or fluoride-treated water. Here’s a look…
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T’was the Gardener Before Christmas
December 24th, 2013
I’ve written about a lot of people in 35 years of journalism. Now, someone has turned the tables with a clever Christmas poem involving seed-ordering, reindeer and tomato blight.
Apples for Christmas
December 17th, 2013
Longwood Gardens’ 2013 Christmas show features a floating apple tapestry of more than 18,000 red and green apples.
A Nice Little House
December 10th, 2013
I’m just back from leading a 3-day trip to North Carolina’s Biltmore House, and I’m both awed at the mansion and grounds and dumbfounded at why a bachelor would need a home with 43 bathrooms.
Making Sense of Seeds
December 3rd, 2013
The annual rite of seed catalogs used to be a mainly right-after-Christmas thing, but like everything else, the timetable keeps moving up. The mainstream supply of them now arrives before Christmas. At least paper catalogs are still around, although I don’t get as many as I used to. I do some […]
The Steel City Garden
November 19th, 2013
When my son and daughter-in-law moved into a century-old house in a small town near Pittsburgh, one of the first things we did (as you might guess) was fix the atrocious landscaping. In case you’re not terribly familiar with Pittsburgh, everything in that part of the state is rabid black and gold. Those […]
Weirdo Vegetable Report
November 12th, 2013
One of the best parts about home veggie gardening is that you get to try all sorts of things that don’t show up at the grocery store. Usually, the no-shows are no-shows because they don’t ship well, keep well or look good on the shelves. Sometimes it’s because a particular edible isn’t […]
Cleanup or Sanitize?
November 5th, 2013
There’s a difference between fall cleanup and sanitizing the yard. Here’s a “honey-don’t list” to help figure out what to do — or not — after frost ends the growing season.
Garden Sitting Places
October 29th, 2013
Gardeners tend not to sit a lot. Maybe you’ve heard the line, “Garden benches are for purely ornamental purpose because gardeners never actually sit.” How true. There’s always one more weed to pull or one more daylily to deadhead. Gardens don’t weed and deadhead themselves, you know. I’ve been learning the […]
It’s Not Over Yet at Hershey Gardens
October 22nd, 2013
Like all of our gardens and yards these days, Hershey Gardens is sliding into cold-weather hibernation. But for all that’s done and dwindling, it’s amazing how much can be going on still in a mid-autumn garden. My wife and I spent the mildly crisp afternoon this past Sunday wandering Milton Hershey’s 23 […]