Articles of Special Interest to Us Gardeners

Dead Heading: You'll Be Grateful That You Did It

We seem to wait all winter for the garden to come up and to start to bloom, and then suddenly the show is over, the blossoms have faded, dried up, partly disintegrated. This is your clue. Now is the time for deadheading.

24th of May or bust?

How to Plant your Perennials

Dig a hole a the same depth and a little wider than the pot. Remove the plant from the pot and prepare it for planting.

 

No Yard Waste Pickup? No Problem!

Here are some ideas for how you can handle the lack of yard waste pickup. Store it. Compost it. Chop and Drop it. Use it. Ignore it. At the end is a great video of what worms do with your garden litter, if you just give them a month or so.

Chaz's Ten Favourite Perennials

Asking me to choose only 10 favourite perennials is, well, like asking a mom which of her kids is her favourite. First of all, you love them all differently, so you can't possibly rank them. And, even if you could, that ranking probably changes from day to day, mood to mood, and there is never really only one answer. I tried. I really did.

3 Weeks of March Break! Help!

Kids Horticulturally Inspired Activities for Early Spring You may not know this about me, but I used to be a homeschooler. Our homeschool probably ...