So, what is hardscape landscaping? Here are 3 hardscape ideas for your garden
It’s been said that you can have a very good garden consisting of all plants but you can’t have a great garden without hardscape, and I’d tend to agree.
How often should you water your tomatoes? Here are 5 tomato growing care tips
The “what’s wrong with my tomato” inquiry has got to occupy the top spot in the Universal Garden Question Hall of Fame.
Try these 5 tips to help garden survive the scorching heat
Who said it isn’t summer yet?! This is a tough time of year for all of us – both for plants and the people who tend them.
Why you should be seeing red if you want to understand your yard’s health
Growing up in suburban New York City we were surrounded by woods and we had a large yard that was about half lawn and half garden.
From potting soil to mixed planting: 5 tips to get the most out of your container plants
Containers can add so much color, texture and just plain old wow to the summer garden. But done wrong they can make you a cranky gardener.
Nobody likes a kink in their hose. Here’s 3 tips to help you shop for the best garden hose
It always to make sense to me to spend a little time figuring out how build up the good side of the equation of gardening and shrink down the bad.
You’re edging the grass around your garden beds wrong. Here are 4 ways to get it right.
I once heard a radio interview with the person at NASA who recruits candidates into the astronaut program…
Woof. Why your dogwood tree looks so bad this year and 4 tips on how to treat it
This was supposed to be a column all about the poetic and magical connection between mothers and their gardens…
Are you adding the wrong amount of mulch around your trees and in your garden beds?
Sometimes, a seemingly gentle nudge can hit the rawest of nerves. And it seems that last week’s gentle diatribe was just that kind of nudge.
Here are 3 ways you’re killingy our trees by building “Mulch volcanoes” and how to fix it
Please, please . . .
stop killing your trees.
Those big mounds of mulch, all over the yard,
will stifle the roots and make life oh so hard.