An informed, yet personal take on natural gardening in Indiana and other dirty topics.
Indoors Keep houseplants close to bright windows. Check soil for dryness before watering. Examine produce, tender flower bulbs and roots stored for the winter for rot, shriveling or excess moisture. Remove and discard damaged material. Sketch garden ...
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 ...
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 ...
You know me. I don't sell stuff, but I want to share with you info about a fundraising event for an organization that changed my life. This is my second year as president of GardenComm: Garden Communicators International, a professional group of writers, ...
For all of us, 2020 has been the year from – as my mom would say – H E double toothpicks. Many of us weathered Thanksgiving alone or with just a small group or by Zoom. It looks like Christmas will liked be Zoomed, too. However, there are a few things we ...
