Protect plants from wind and water
There is no easy answer to keeping plants moist and if they dry out from lack of water or too much wind, they do get stressed and stressed plants get diseased. Sometimes they even die.
Like a Farmer on a Budget: Multiply Grape, Figs and Blackberries from Cuttings
This spring we are expanding into the “back 40” as my dad used to call the back pasture on the farm. This is an area we recently had to fence because we joined the lot behind us with our main house lot. In doing that we had to clear out the branches and brambles and big stumps that were in the way. And so we were left with a field. A new planting opportunity. This post looks at edible shrubs and will be of special interest to green-thumb gardeners or farmers on a budget.
Brides on a Budget: Multiplying Echeveria
This post looks at growing the beautiful succulent Echeveria from individual leaves and it will be of special interest to green-thumb brides on a budget.
Reader Rock Garden
Once the snow melts it is usually only a few weeks until the earliest alpine flowers start to bloom… even in Northern Gardens. The Adonis vernalis is one of the earliest ….
Mentoring Students in My Greenhouse taught me so much
I was asked to mentor youth as part of the Goodseeds program earlier this winter and I wondered what two students and I would do together for a week once my shed was clean and shears sharpened. It was snowy outdoors so we couldn’t attack my unlimited weeding. I had to get more creative….
Columnist Helen Chesnut Shares the Garden Journal News!
Three Year Gardener’s Gratitude Journal, by Chelsie Anderson and Donna Balzer (240 pages, soft cover, $28.55): An effective agent for firing up enthusiasm for a new gardening season is a lighthearted and warmly encouraging garden journal like this one.
