Planning a Vegetable Garden One of the decisions to be made at vegetable planting time is whether to start seeds indoors and transplant the baby plants, or to sow seed directly in the garden and let it sprout where it will grow to maturity. While there some plants that are better suited for one or…

Indian Hawthron with Cold Damage   How to Identify Cold Damage in Your Landscape   In a winter like the one just past, the landscape takes a real beating. There has been extreme cold, drying wind, excessive rain, and frozen precipitation of all kinds; not to mention the fluctuation of temperatures we are experiencing on…

Every year as spring fever approaches, die-hard turf grass enthusiasts head to garden centers and home improvement stores to begin any of a host of multistep treatment programs for a lush green, weed free lawn care. While some degree of success can come from these approaches, the truth is these crusading lawn rangers could save…

Cooking with Chives The only thing I have harvestable in the garden at the moment are chives. The rest of my herbs did not fair well this winter. But my chives are as happy as can be! Chives are very easy to grow. They are a perennial and are very low maintenance (I hardly even water them!) All…

This is the time of year when I get a bit antsy. There’s always that warm weather streak that appears in the middle of winter. Enough to make you  bust out your garden tools and start dreaming of vine ripened tomatoes. However, years of gardening has taught me to be patient. Mother nature whispers for…