If you are always waiting for a sunny day so you can get out and work in your garden, then you probably aren't going to have much of a garden.The best days to work in a garden are cloudy days, after a …
How To Water Trees
On a rainy day like today, I'm thinking about watering.I won't have to water anything in my garden for quite awhile after this rain. It is one of those slow, steady, soaking-in kind of rains that …
Spring Freeze at the Garden Center
Have you ever experienced a spring freeze at a garden center?Everything is set. It’s spring and the garden centers are stocked with hanging baskets, flats of annuals, and rows of trees and shrubs and …
Eve of A Gardening Vacation
Perhaps in a few years we will look back on this spring of 2008 and declare that it was one of the best we've ever seen.Though it is early, all indications are that every blooming tree, shrub and …
Faces in the Garden
Do you know what creeps me out in a garden?Faces.Faces molded into the sides of containers. Faces in stepping stones. Faces attached to heads that just sit in the garden, sans bodies. Faces attached …
Embrace Bugs For A Happier Life
We are outnumbered, you know that don't you? There are far more insects than people. Far more, way more, lots more than we can really fathom.I read once that for every pound of people on this earth, …
