The last issue of Organic Gardening is on the shelves now. Rodale, the name synonymous with all-things organic, will relaunch Organic Gardening as Organic Living with a May-June ...
Plants to support bees in spring, summer and fall
If you are worried about the decline of bees in your landscape, there are some things you can do to encourage their presence – plant flowers. There are a lot, but here are six of ...
Flowers on the menu = Tasty ingredient
As restaurants embrace farm-to-table fare, gardeners need to celebrate their own backyard bounty. We already know about tomatoes, peppers, squash, beans and lettuces, but there ...
Evergreen perennials for the Midwest garden
Say evergreens and most people think pine, spruce or arborvitae. But several perennials fall into this category, including a couple of grass-like plants. Sedge Sure, sedge ...
Heirloom or hybrid?
If you’ve been perusing the mail order garden catalogs or online websites, you may have come across some confusing or unfamiliar terms. Take heirloom, for instance. An heirloom ...
Celebrate the 2015 Color of the Year with marsala-colored plants for the garden
If marsala wine is known for anything, it’s cooking. Marsala chicken, anyone? But, Pantone, the powers that be in all-things-color, picked the its hue to celebrate in 2015. “A ...
Extension and Master Gardener volunteers help others grow
This was the year that cooperative extension services throughout the United States celebrated their 100th anniversary. Although we may consider cooperative extension a purely ...
Easy-peasy gifts from the garden
Gardeners have great opportunities for a few quick, but not-so-dirty gifts from the garden. For many of us, something homegrown makes the most thoughtful and memorable gift. For ...
Making birds count
On Facebook the last few days, local birders have been crowing about spotting two female harlequin ducks, described as “a rare inland record for Indiana.” They were observed on a ...
Gift ideas for the gardeners on your list
It’s high season for gift giving and here are some suggestions for the gardeners on your list. A wonderful holiday gift for gardeners or wannabes in the millennial group is The ...