Houseplants are good for you
Once you have battened down your outdoor gardens for the season, you might wish for a little rest from tending plants. But if your green thumb starts to itch …
Think now for color in the spring
If you want early spring color in your garden, now is the time to plant your hardy bulbs. Hardy bulbs are those that need the cold winters in order to …
It’s harvest season!
Climate change seems to have brought a considerable change to our weather patterns. What are usually the dog days of summer in mid-August came in July …
More on tomatoes
I hope your tomatoes are growing as well as ours. Our three plants have produced dozens of cherry, red pear and beefsteak tomatoes. They are still …
Nothing beats fresh homegrown tomatoes
Finally the tomatoes are planted! The cool weather this spring led me to wonder if the soil would ever be warm enough to plant them. (Planting tomatoes in soil …
Mow your lawn the correct way
We are nearing the end of “No Mow May.” The Department of Natural Resources and many Minnesota communities promote not mowing your lawn in the month …
Picking a tree
As I said in my last column I have been thinking a lot about trees lately. Since losing our 85-year-old elm tree to Dutch Elm disease last summer we have been …
Trees, an essential part of life
“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree” Trees by Joyce Kilmer “Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy …
Spring will soon be blooming
The weather is still vacillating between cold and sunny and warmer and snowing and I am still thinking about my new sun garden in the front of my house. …
Add some asters to your garden
I am still musing over the renovation of my front garden. As I consider the myriad of plants that are hardy in our climate I have decided that I need to …