The new All American Selection for 2020 for vegetables goes to 3 tomato varieties. 1. Celano is a patio type grape tomato with a strong bushy habit. It is best grown with some support, such as a tomato cage. This…
The euonymus family of shrubs are a group of tall, medium, and low-growing shrubs with variable habits, which withstand though growing condition, making them perfect for South Dakota landscapes. The most-often used euonymus is the burning bush, and, like it,…
All-America Selections, North America’s oldest and most well-known non-profit plant trialing organization has announced the first winners for 2020 including two entries from the Perennial Trial. Only those entries that performed better than the comparisons are granted the AAS award…
So why are grocery stores selling this? Like most controversial foods, durian is an acquired taste
I hate mums—or more properly Chrysanthemum sp.—with a passion second only to my distaste for the new “fancy” petunias that never last through the summer. But mums are about as worthless in the garden in my estimation. Yes, they provide us some…
Gardening in the fall is a great time to look back on your garden successes and disappointments, but there’s still plenty of time left for most of us to do some last-minute garden maintenance. Fall gardening takes advantage of cooler…
Choosing a vine for the garden is a tricky business. The perfect vine would be one that is beautiful, easy to grow and stops at the end of the trellis. The stopping part – or perhaps more accurately failing to…
It will be a jungle out there when my morning glory vines grow up! The morning glory can grow to be ten feet tall or more in a season, which made it a popular privy plant in the old days…
Alpine strawberries cause confusion, as sometimes they’re considered wild, and sometimes they’re not. They’re generally of the genus Fragaria vesca, which grows wild in northern Europe. They can be both red or white. If you do a search online for…
My okra plants are producing now! Grown from seed started indoors in April. It was first cultivated in Ethiopia. Records of its cultivation in ancient Egypt date to over 3000 years ago! In the following centuries was spread throughout Africa, the…
Another one of my favorite flowers are blooming now: Four o’clocks or Marvel of Peru. It is an unusual plant, in that it may produce flowers of different colors on the same plant—including white, yellow, and a variety of pink,…
As long as there have been farmers and gardeners, there have been birds trying to eat their crops. And throughout the ages, farmers have tried to come up with ingenious ways to scare them off. Nowadays, scarecrows are familiar sights,…
First year in growing purslane. I have planted a couple of plants in a cement block and they are doing good. In the Mediterranean, it is used in soups and salads and has lots of potential health benefits. It lowers…
Here are some gardening hacks to use in your garden. Adding coffee grounds to the soil in your garden is a great way to enrich it with nitrogen, which encourages microorganism growth in the soil. Using coffee grounds seems to…
It’s such a sinking feeling to have one’s garden pummeled by hail especially for farmers who lost crops. Anyways in a few days to a week you’ll probably get a good idea what is salvageable or not. It never looks…