Proven Winners' Goodhearted tomato, bred for growing in a pot, should be on the market in 2020. Photo courtesy ProvenWinners.com Gardeners are nothing if not ...
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July garden checklist
Indoors Keep an eye on houseplants that have been set outdoors to make sure they are watered properly. Hot summer breezes can quickly dry them out. Propagate houseplants ...
What to do when Japanese beetles arrive
This column ran originally July 21, 2018. Gardeners from all over have been posting on Facebook about the invasion of Japanese beetles, an insect that has been only a minor pest ...
A fungus among us
Mother Nature has hit our gardens with a double whammy: Rain and high humidity. Did I ...
Scouting gardens leads to what’s old is new again
I recently spent much of a week scouting residential gardens in the Indianapolis area for a national magazine with its editor and ...
Replace drowned plants, prune spring shrubs
If the pruners have been burning a hole in your garden glove, go ahead and trim up the lilac, forsythia, viburnum and other ...
Get the garden ready for the big event
If June has a season, it’s weddings. No matter when the wedding or other special event is scheduled for your garden, you need to ...
Plants vs skeeters: Skeeters win!
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 ...
