It may be cold and the garden is asleep BUT this is the perfect season to plan for and fantasize about what incredible plants and supremely useful tools you are going to need in your garden and yard next season. There is a level of satisfaction in being able to grow your produce as organically …
2014
Find Your Plant Hardiness Zone – Important Changes
Each section of the world can effectively grow specific kinds of plants. You may think that in a tropical or subtropical region you can grow anything you want, but that’s not at all the case. There are plants that prefer cold climates and require a cold winter with a hard freeze in order to grow …
Potentially Invasive Garden Plants
Each spring the avid gardener thinks about what they are going to plant in their landscape and vegetable garden. The beginners look to how they should start and what they should plant. When I was a beginner I fell into the trap of wanting to plant EVERYTHING I laid my eyes one. “OOOO, that’s pretty.” …
Tired of Being Buried in Snow? Time To Plan for Spring
So far this is the 5th coldest and snowiest winter on record in the United States. There hasn’t been a state in the continental US that’s been spared the fearsome power that is the winter storm complete with ice – even in Florida! Here in Northwest Ohio we got buried again this week. For our …