If you want to boost your confidence as a gardener, embrace annuals!Botanically, annuals complete their lifecycle in one growing season. They sprout from seed, grow like mad, flower as much as they …
Embrace Fall Clean-Up for A Happier Life
There are some gardeners who claim that they do little to no fall clean-up. They make it sound quite virtuous to let nature do its thing through fall and winter. They want us to believe that once the …
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Benefits of Not Weeding
One of the benefits of not weeding is seeing volunteer petunia seedlings blooming amongst the dried up corn stalks on a beautiful October day.These petunias are almost exactly the color of the …
Petunias: A Case Study
There was a time when I had written off petunias. They seemed to be such a bother.To keep them blooming, you had to deadhead them all the time. And they were so sticky, it wasn't like you could just …
Fear Not The Common Flowers
It's not all weeds and ugly tomatoes here at May Dreams Gardens.I have some very common flowers growing around here, too.Remember how everyone was raving over the Wave Petunias when they first showed …
I Like To Know What Weeds I’m Pulling
A few years ago, seemingly out of nowhere, this weed appeared in my vegetable garden.It likes to grow along the outside edges of the raised beds, right by the wood edging, plus in the paths and really …
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