I’ve been saving lives the last couple of weeks…the lives of basil, peppers, tomatoes, rosemary, impatiens and geraniums (Pelargonium), to name a few. That’s because people want ...
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Kids gardening: Good for vitamin N
We hear a lot about vitamin deficiencies, and kids are not immune, frequently coming up short on their vitamin N for nature. One way to bolster their vitamin N is to get kids ...
Beautiful food in a postage stamp-size garden? You can do that!
In the last 10 days, I’ve received two books with the same theme: food gardening. It’s no surprise to garden centers, mail order and online retailers and, apparently publishers, ...
New, or sort of new, veggies to try
My philosophy is to always try new plants every year and this year, it will be vegetables. A few of these have been available for a few years, but they will be new to ...
Forget shamrocks and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with oxalis
We may call those clover-like plants we buy around St. Patrick’s Day shamrocks, but they aren’t. They are oxalis. St. Patrick used the three-leafed shamrock to illustrate the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Harvest, houseplants, composting and lawns top of mind in fall
If you haven’t already, start bringing in houseplants that spent the summer outdoors. Temperatures have fallen into the 50s some nights, and that’s the indicator that houseplants ...
Hibiscus sawfly appears in Indiana gardens
In some Hoosier gardens, hibiscus leaves look like green lace. Don’t blame the damage on Japanese beetles. The real culprit is the hibiscus sawfly larva, which has an appetite ...