It’s time to start thinking about those beautiful fall and winter flowers, from pansies and sweet pea to viola and…
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Ladybugs are primarily valued by gardeners for their voracious appetite: they can devour 50 or more aphids and other troublesome…
If you are trying to go pesticide-free in the garden, consider a version of companion planting that actually has one…
Plants need little animals like hummingbirds, bees, bats, butterflies, and beetles to carry pollen between flowers. Pollination causes your trees…
Good old beans! As a legume, they are one of the stars of the garden, fixing nitrogen in the soil…
Would you believe that cucumbers are second only to tomatoes as the most popular vegetable crop for home gardens? (We…
Peppers, particularly the hotter types, are a great friend to many other plants in the garden. Their spicy scent can…
Sowing annual flower seeds in fall? Are we crazy? The truth is, many of the varieties we label simply as…
Recently a customer asked, “Do you have a list of edible flowers?” Apparently conventional fruits and vegetables aren’t hittin’ the spot…
“And pansies, that’s for thoughts.” Shakespeare preserved this information for us in Hamlet, and the floral industry keeps us abreast of…