If your landscape has been under water, here are a few things you should know. For vegetable gardeners, the big rains came before we planted tomatoes, peppers, corn, green beans ...
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Plants can be hazardous to your pet’s health
Do you have a killer landscape? You might, depending on which plants you have that are poisonous to pets. Here are some that you might want to avoid: Burning bush (Euonymus ...
New Year’s wishes for gardeners in 2013
Happy New Year! Hope is at the center of the gardener’s soul. We hope the seeds will sprout. We hope the plant will bloom. We hope for tasty tomatoes. We hope for better ...
Time for fall cleanup
Leaves started falling early this year because of the hot dry weather. And, recent freezing temperatures turned many perennials, annuals, vegetables and herbs to mush. Must be ...
Indiana State Fairgrounds site of Purdue Extension-Marion County’s new demonstration garden
When Purdue Extension-Marion County moved from Intech Park to Discovery Hall at the Indiana State Fairgrounds earlier this year, it could not take its demonstration garden with ...
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day August 2012
Gardeners are nothing if not full of hope. We hope the seeds sprout. We hope a struggling plant starts to do better. We hope a plant blooms like it’s supposed to do. We ...
Spider mites love this hot, dry weather
Those specks of rusty gold on the leaves of coneflowers, tomatoes, dahlias, arborvitae, spruce and dozens of other plants in the garden are one more thing to blame on the excessive ...
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day July 2012
I hate to sound like a broken record, but, well, I’m living where all the weather records have been broken, making this the driest June/July in more than 100 years. Because ...
Slugs do like their beer
A lot of people think they have to snip off the flowers on bedding plants and other annuals before planting them. Not so, says Diane Blazek of the National Garden Bureau, a ...
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day June 2012
June is the height of the blooming season here in Central Indiana, where higher than normal temps in winter has pushed even more flowers into bloom. As I look out my office ...