This is just to record the garden tips from my sidebar, which otherwise will disappear when I replace the info with timely seasonal hints. “September is the best time to transplant established peonies. Begin by cutting the peony stems near ground level. Then carefully dig around and under each plant. Try to retain as much…
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5 Tips to Improve Clay Soil
This page has moved. It can be found @ Ilona’s Garden: 5 Tips To Improve Clay Soil, along with other informative posts on soil improvement. But if you want only one really important tip for working with clay soil, it is this: Don’t work (dig, hoe, rake, step on, etc) clay soils when they are…
A Bit Of Garden Wisdom
This is not the time of year to do all this pruning and moving, but insuch a tangled garden it must be done, and now is better than never. ~Katy’s Garden
Good Gardening Ideas Gone Bad
It seemed like such a good idea at the time: loads of grass trimmings from mowing, and trees to mulch. Grass clippings ought to make good mulch. The trouble is that they often harbor grass seed and create an encroaching wave of grass in the coming seasons. Not so good for new trees. Or straw….
Do You Dig Your Soil?
That is “sixties-speak” for whether or not you like the soil handed to you in your garden… do you bloom where you are planted? Here in Central Ohio I have gardened on clay types of soils. Presently my garden soil is composed of a dark clay loam called Kokomo. With the way the weather has…
The Frugal Gardener
Stuart asked “What was your best plant bargain?” and as a frugal gardener I have had a few. It is hard to just pick one, things being relative 🙂 Last year I picked up some lovely hydrangeas I’d been wanting… for about five dollars each, in large containers. I’m always looking over the specials and…
Q&A From Keywords
Sometimes it is interesting what people are looking for when they land on your page. Here are a few questions that people had according to my Statcounter, along with the answers I have for them today. When to mulch garden? Well, for this time of year I would wait until we have had frozen ground,…
Feeling Like October
Finally, the horrid heat wave is over. fini. All the things I loved about October were evaporating in the July-like heat (one of my least favorite months), but now all is back to normal. Now I can direct you, dear reader, to my October gardening tips, and let you know about a frost date selector…
Fast Grow the Weeds: Fruit Fly Catcher
Fast Grow the Weeds: More bugs: “September is a beautiful month around here, but it is also Fruit Fly Month.” If you have a glass jar, a paper cone, and a piece of juicy fruit.. you can be on your way to ridding your kitchen of fruit flies. See El’s directions and picture for full…
I ♥ Peat Moss
I do. Peat moss has been my garden’s best friend for a long time. It is mainly a soil conditioner, and that is what makes it so valuable. I used to garden on heavy clay, and even though my soil is now clay loam, it still benefits from the incorporation of some peat moss when…