Every year, customers come into garden centers looking for plants that will repel mosquitoes. The shoppers want something they can plant in the ground or in pots around their deck, ...
June garden checklist
Indoors Houseplants will need more water and fertilizer during summer growing period. General landscape Prune spring-flowering shrubs within a month after blooms fade. ...
Honeydew droppings make mess
Something unpleasant drips like rain from oaks in Indianapolis. It may have the innocuous-sounding name honeydew, but there’s ...
Ready. Set. Go. Planting Time
It’s time. Go ahead and plant your tomatoes, squash and other summer veggies. Since peppers like even warmer soil, plant those in a couple of weeks. And while you’re at it, ...
Celebrate all our charges on Mother’s Day
Although my son lives more than 1,000 miles away with his wife, I have everyday Mother’s Day reminders of him in my garden and in my life. Probably my favorite for outdoors is a ...
May garden checklist
Indoors Move houseplants to a shady location outdoors when danger of frost has past, usually mid-May. The soil in the pots will dry out faster outdoors, so check it ...
Three native plants you may not know about
There are a lot of Eastern U.S. native perennials that are lesser known and underused we might consider for our gardens. Here are three spring bloomers. Yellow Bell Wort Wild ...
Rushing spring may be hazardous to warm-season annuals
Don’t plant tomato transplants until the middle of May. Plant peppers a few weeks later. (C) Photo lapis2380/123rf.com Garden center employees have thoughts about the customers ...
Leaves’ spotty behavior frustrates homeowners, gardeners
Two types of anthracnose on dogwood. (C) Photo Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp Probably the No. 1 problem that frustrates homeowners and gardeners is spots on the leaves of trees and ...
Spring ephemerals: Here today, gone tomorrow
Virginia bluebells enhance the spring scene then totally disappear without a bit of cleanup. © Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp Some native spring perennials are here and gone within just ...
