April 22 is Earth Day – a time to reflect on what you can do to help protect the planet, beginning in your own back yard. Here are five things you can do: Grow your own fruit and vegetables. You’ll cut down on fuel used to transport food. Compost kitchen and garden waste. You’ll make …
One of the unwanted visitors to the spring garden arrives just about now. That mass of tiny pests that cloak the new growth on your roses, elderberries, viburnums, or peach trees are at best an unsightly nuisance and at worst, creatures that can damage tender new growth on plants and spread disease. They’re aphids! Aphid …
Spring is here and so are the weeds! Are you seeing grasses, dandelions, bindweed, and even wild blackberry popping up in your lawn, flower beds, vegetable gardens, or other exposed spaces? Even in teeny spaces between bricks on your patio? What’s a gardener to do with such a bounty of weeds? The most effective method …
