When I go speak for groups interested in growing roses, I always bring up the possibility of a nightmare winter. For us, I suppose, that would be blizzards and ice storms, or perhaps a combination of the two. However, in the rose garden, the opposite is true! An Awful Past Winter This winter we just ...
Read More | Everything RosesStick to your resolution to rely less on plastic in your gardening activities and use pressed soil blocks as your “pots” instead. Save yourself from having to clean and find storage space for a bunch of plastic trays and tubs that you won’t use until next indoor seed sowing season. With soil blocks, you plant ...
Read More | Just VeggiesSpring Plantlings from Ferry-Morse are the perfect alternative to seed sowing this spring. Maybe you got busy catching up on past seasons of Ted Lasso and you just didn’t get around to sowing seeds indoors. Or, maybe your green thumb is brown when it comes to seeding. Or perhaps like me, flea beetles don’t give ...
Read More | Just VeggiesLast time out I mentioned that the National Garden Bureau has declared 2023 the Year of the Broccoli for the gardening organization’s edible category. While that post was about types and one very tasty preparation for it (in fact, I made it last night), this post focuses on how to grow broccoli. And, well, maybe ...
Read More | Just VeggiesI walked into the big, warm, lighted greenhouse this morning and was thrilled with what greeted me! The roses that I have been growing since December are beginning to bloom! February roses are so beautiful. Of course, the first thing I did was to put my nose into the blossoms and breathe deep. Ahhhh…sweet, sweet ...
Read More | Everything RosesNational Garden Bureau has declared 2023 the Year of the Broccoli for the gardening organization’s edible category. Cheers to that! While some people famously do not like broccoli, I for one say, “all the more for those who do.” Perhaps broccoli haters just have not had it prepared in a way that brings out its ...
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