Do not forget to feed the birds especially through the hard part of winter. Winter food should have a little fat, dried fruit, and sunflowers for ingredients. Suet becomes important for winter birds because of its fat content. Here is…
Winter Birds
Category: Gardening & Landscape
Dwarf Conifer Beds
Dwarf conifer beds are becoming more popular. As the landscapes get smaller, everyone has an abandoned area they need to bring to life. They take less time to maintain overall compared with flowerbeds. Conifers (evergreens) provide beauty year-round with some…
Walkway Lights
Why would someone want to install walkway lights? When you tripped when young, everyone would point and laugh. Now everyone comes running to ask if you want an ambulance. I wanted something to light the way to my front door…
Success and Failures in the flowerbeds.
Success and Failures in the flowerbeds. Success: the tulips out bloomed the daffodils. The daffodils seem to be more prone to early heat and late freezes than tulips. The crocus and allium (flowering onion) did great. The mainstays like four…
Leave some Vegetables in the Ground
I am a lazy gardener meaning I love working in the garden; however, I am all over saving time and energy. I do not have the environment to save vegetables in the house. You can leave some vegetables in the…
Kitchen Garden
If I say to grow mint, you think spearmint. It is the most common, however, there are many other types of mints to grow in your kitchen garden. Here is a list: Banana mint with the smell and taste of…
Winter Damage on Evergreens
Remember the winter damage on evergreens last spring? Winter injury is not caused by merely being cold. It is caused by cold winds and winter sun drying out the needles on mainly the south and west side of the tree.…
Frost Cracks
We now know how to care for evergreens in the winter to prevent needle kill. What about trees that lose their leaves? If there are winter thaws during January and February, this can cause frost cracks going down the trunk…
Heirloom Rose
When looking for roses in next year’s garden, try an heirloom rose. These are older roses (many shrub roses) which the hybrid teas replaced in the last 30 years for their long blooming time. However, many of the older roses…
Fall Tilling
Fall tilling in the garden and annual flowerbed is the best time. When you are ready to plant in April with the early spring crops the soil is ready with reduced weed interference. In the fall the soil is dryer…
Carrot Weevil
Who is eating these tunnels in my carrots? They all called the carrot weevil. The adult in a tiny brown bug with a snout laying eggs on the crown of the carrot. The little white worms burrow down on the…
Porcelain Berry
So .. Porcelain Berry vine has that beautiful blue I can count on every autumn rather small but outstanding in the BLUE department coming in clusters of blue, reddish, and purple colors. Leaves can come in variegated white also. The…
Vipipary
This is called “vivipary”. The seeds on the strawberry plant are sprouting using the strawberry fruit as a source of food and water. If you are patient, you can separate the little sprouts and plant them in a soil media…
Aster Plants
This time of the year when many of the spring-blooming plants are long done and the summer-blooming ones are fading out. You want a little more color to take you to frost and beyond, try fall-blooming aster plants. These plants…
Prepare my Lawn for Winter
How do I prepare my lawn for winter? Keep watering if it dries out. This will allow the grass to go dormant healthy. Now, this is the time to control your perennial weeds. In the fall the weeds are growing,…