So far, it's been a pretty good year for growing peppers. Fortunately, the breeders and hybridizers are keeping up with our desire to explore pepper flavors and forms. This ...
Free tours offer peek at some of Indy’s best landscapes, neighborhoods and public spaces
What better way to round out the touring season than peeking at some of the best landscapes Indianapolis has to offer. It's an opportunity to quell your curiosity about some of ...
The problem with cattails
Cattails add a lot of visual and architectural interest along the shores of ponds and lakes and in ditches. But sometimes they spread beyond the borders. A few people have written ...
Seeds reward us and fail us, but we don’t know until we try
This past growing season, I tried growing several vegetables from seeds. Like a lot of gardeners, some things worked great and some not so great. I sowed seeds for carrots, corn ...
It’s pickin’ time for veggies
With all the vegetables in high production mode, it's good to know some of the best ways to bring the harvest to the table. Here are a few tips on the proper way to ...
A look at the economic impact of garden tours
A couple of friends and I decided it was time to visit Elkhart County for the 10th anniversary of the Quilt Gardens Tour, which featured several statues from Seward Johnson. The ...
Could Indianapolis be a city of garden walks?
A recent trip to Buffalo, New York, makes me wonder if Indianapolis could embrace the idea of whole neighborhoods opening their gardens for tours. For the last 24 years, ...
What’s bugging your plants?
Sometimes veggies that you've grown for several years don't do as well as you expect. A reader wants to know why her squash, melon and peppers are not doing well, even though they ...
New plants to look for next year
As usual, I attended the country’s largest annual horticulture show, Cultivate’17, in Columbus, Ohio, in July. It’s a feast for the eyes for sure, and occasionally taste and scent. ...
Weigela is ready to bloom and bloom in today’s gardens
Many of us probably think of weigela as a plant in our grandparents’ yard. The ones on the market today are nothing like their predecessors. For one thing, plant breeders have ...
