An informed, yet personal take on natural gardening in Indiana and other dirty topics.
Indoors Repot house plants as they out grow current pots. Pot amaryllis bulb. Sketch garden plans, including what to grow, spacing, arrangement and number of plants needed. Order seeds and plants as early as possible for best selection from ...
Orchids used to be very expensive and certainly not readily available at grocery stores or garden centers. Today, blooming orchids are a commodity and they can be found about anywhere, including check out counters. A big break in terms of care for a ...
Holidays When shopping for a fresh-cut Christmas tree, check for green, flexible, firmly held needles and a sticky trunk base -- both indicators of freshness. Make a fresh cut and keep the cut end under water at all times. Evergreens can be trimmed ...
Indoors Houseplant growth will slow so apply less fertilizer and water. Move plants closer to windows or to sunnier exposures if plants are dropping leaves. Pot up spring-flowering bulbs with tips exposed to force blooms indoors. Moisten soil ...
Several people have commented about forsythia and magnolias and other spring or early summer flowering trees and shrubs blooming this fall. Even as I write this, there are patches of creeping phlox (Phlox stolonifera) sporting pink blooms in two landscapes in ...
