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I didn’t know to what extent growing pumpkins is serious business until I read the article by about Gary Grande. There is serious competition among giant pumpkin growers. This article has no byline, but it appears in the AG Journal. I’ve seen those TV spots every year around Halloween about people who grow those giant […]...
There are reasons that vegetable gardening is increasing in popularity. With the rising cost of food, home vegetable gardening can actually save you money if you are careful. I say if you are careful, because of you buy more than you need in the way of gardening supplies, seeds, plants, tools, etc., you won’t save […]...
Depending on your point of view, they can be considered spring wildflowers or spring weeds. You know the old definition of a weed, don’t you? The one that goes like this: a weed is a plant that is growing where it is not wanted and causes some type of problem. Dan Gill, the author of […]...
Sydney Tomato Festival: Costa is at the Sydney Tomato Festival to get some growing, cooking and preserving tips. After the Heat: Sophie takes stock of the garden after summer's record-breaking heatwave, replanting where plants haven't coped. The Patch: Tino shows us the renovated Patch at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hobart, before he gets to work. Growing Natives in Pots: Jane meets an expert native...
Sophie takes stock of the garden after summer's record-breaking heatwave, replanting where plants haven't coped...
Costa is at the Sydney Tomato Festival to get some growing, cooking and preserving tips...
Josh meets a woman who's dedicated her garden to her late granddaughters ...
Jane meets an expert native plant grower to have a look at some natives well-suited to growing in pots...
Tino returns to The Patch, which underwent extensive renovations over the last year ...
I don’t usually curate blog posts, especially on commercial sites, but the post on four things butterflies want was a link to a regional map of butterflies and butterfly plants that was sent to me by a reader of Gardening News Today. I thought the post and the map, to which I will link […]...
If you live in the city, you may have given up the idea of a garden, because most all urban gardeners are space challenged. Tess Pennington has written an encouraging article for the city dwelling would be gardener. She suggests that even people in urban environments are able to have gardens. Even though urban gardeners […]...
Interesting Plant: Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum) Growing up in rural Ohio, I was surrounded by maple trees of all shapes and sizes. There were the huge 100 year old maples that overarched the main streets and also the large “sugar bush” lots where maple sap (and then maple syrup) remerged each Spring. When I moved to […] Interesting Plant: Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum) is a post...
River Rock Pillar Rock and stone hardscape in the garden always provides a great counterpoint to the soft and green plantings. This river rock pillar adds a rusted steel cage and a perfect setting for a container on top, too. The innovative use of individual stones instead of concrete gives it huge visual interest. This […] Garden Decor: River Rock Pillar is a post from: A Gardener's Notebook...
If you think that floating row covers are indispensable to starting your spring gardening off on the right foot, you would not be alone. David “Goldy” Goldstein has written an article about early spring gardening, which he describes as “a stark departure from my wonky policy analysis and foul-mouthed political rants.” Part of the reason […]...
As I do each year, I took some time to visit nearby Lake Balboa Park today to see the Japanese Cherry trees that bloom around the lake each year. We are in a drought year, so the bloom is not as vibrant has it has been in the past, but there was still many blossoms to photograph […] Video: Lake Balboa Cherry Blossoms 2014 – A Video Montage is a post from: A Gardener's Notebook Subscribe...
This is a good article providing scoop for beginning gardeners, and we don’t mean a garden scoop. There are a few things that beginning gardeners would be well to know before starting out with the venture full force ahead but not quite sure where they’re going. Richard Poffenbaugh is a retired biology teacher and avid […]...
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If you don’t really know what constitutes organic gardening and you want to know what defines an organic gardener, you should read Ann Kynion’s response to a reader asking for a definition of an organic gardener. Ann is a master gardener who writes in News-Leader.com. The question originally posed implied that an organic gardener would […]...
Every garden deserves a lovely garden gate and this one from 1917 California garden certainly fits the bill. Garden gates, in all their forms, give us a sense of enclosure while also inviting us inside for the beauty that might be found there. I find that in all my Internet travels garden gates and fences […] Garden History: Every garden deserves a lovely garden gate – Wellington Stanley...