Don’t you just love to prune? Yard trees, shrubs, berries, hedges and, most of all, fruit and nut trees are calling you to get out…
Wonderful, marvelous, vegetable seeds.
They evoke the promise of bountiful beans, beaming beets, crunchy carrots, smashing squash, and mouthwatering watermelons. Every year we peruse the…
A favorite time of year for me at our small nursery was bareroot season. My father built wooden open-top boxes that would hold the sawdust…
Why are we talking about vines this time of year? Possibly because “fruit of the vine, bottle of wine” and…
Communing with soil microbes is the order of the day. We know a fraction of what these tiny animals do to aid in plant growth. …
“Finicky” is not a word I grew up with on the ranch. When you ate, you ate everything—including the hide and the hair! My first…
Let’s consider two ideas for garden plant frost protection that are neither mechanical, nor traditional.
Tender or frost susceptible plants run the gamut, from those…
The word “evergreen” usually evokes images of evergreen types such as pine, fir, spruce, junipers, arborvitae, cedar, and the ever popular yew. Evergreen perennials keep their…
Water is the key to life for all living things. It plays a major role in various systems in the human body, and is a…