Don’t Start Seeds Too Early Photo: MissyRedBoots, Judith Broug Some of you aren’t going to heed this advice. I blame the fact that this winter has been so long (psychologically) and cold that with all the complaints about it, many gardeners want to jump the gun. Whether the stores will aid and abet you, I don’t […]
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When Thoughts Turn To…Plants
It is January, and in Ohio we experienced our usual January thaw… so everything is quite soggy at this point. Most of the gardeners here realize that we have several more months until we can garden and at least one more month to expect winter weather, but right now our thoughts turn to plants -the […]
I Learned Something – You Can Too
Seed bombs I’ve been doing everything except gardening and blogging for the last few weeks. It is fall, and while I usually am out in the garden planting bulbs and all sorts of autumn tasks, this year I tidied the garden and then left for the South to visit my children and grandchildren. Along the […]
When Should I Transplant My Garden Plant?
The rule of thumb for transplanting any sort of plant is: The best time to transplant a plant is when it is most dormant. That rule seems simple enough, and for most plants, dormancy is in spring before the leaves appear, or in late summer or early fall when they are getting ready for their […]
Expectedly, We Re-entered Winter
I hope no one else in Ohio is disappointed, since there is no real end of winter weather here before April, and last blasts of it can happen into May. I look outside onto snow frosted fields, the upturned furrows breaking the surface are like a choppy sea. More winter storms are coming this week, […]
Bloom Where You Are Planted
Reposted from this time of year in 2004 (Mar.31) This is probably the most important adage of the garden. For you, as the gardener, to commune with the sense of your garden. The location which has its own speech and its own beauty. We often miss that in our modernist thinking that everything will bend […]
