5 Things to Plant in April
Since you can still get some frost in April, always make sure whatever you’re planting is frost-tolerant, or simply wait until the end of the month. In terms of coming …
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The Welcome of Farmhouse Flowers
I've always found wildflowers and farmhouse flowers to be some of the most beautiful sights, if for no other reason than the brilliant array of colors. Sunshine yellow, deep purple, …
The 10 Most Beautiful Flowering Fruit Trees
Fruit trees are the high-school overachiever of the garden. They’re the “4.0 GPA, flawless skin, all AP classes, volunteers at a nursing home” type. Flowering fruit trees are the darling …
God’s Fruit or the Devil’s? The Sordid History of the Apple
Depending upon the person you ask, the fruit of the gods could be the pomegranate, grapes, pears, persimmons, or oranges. There may be more fruits that I've missed, but there's …
A Guide to Plant Companionship (with audio)
Planting a rosebush goes beyond the simple act of placing it in the soil—it's a delicate symphony orchestrated by nature. …
Winter Dreams of Spring
This is the time of year that always starts to drag for me. The holidays have come and gone. The New Year is upon us. The falling snow has lost …
A Quick & Dirty Fruit Tree Cloning Guide
Unleashing the magic of fruit tree cloning—a time-honored horticulture practice
In the realm of cloning, many of us might conjure images of Dolly the sheep or science fiction scenarios like the …
A Tortoise in the Garden
If you want to see some hilarious animal antics, take a walk through my garden. You'll see squirrels chasing each other up and down the sunflowers, rabbits hopping around in …
How to Handle Cedar-Apple Rust and Save Your Harvest
It's a beautiful, early-fall day. You got ambitious a couple of years ago, and you now have three gorgeous apple trees around your garden. As you get closer, though, you …
They Weren’t Always Picking Crabapples On This Land
Today's story about picking crabapples gave me a little chuckle, though you might not laugh at the punch line if you're vegetarian.
"Crabby About Apples," comes from Alma Barkman, who has …
