I am a permissive gardener. Fully aware that nature will, in the end, have her way with my yard and garden, I have adopted a low-impact strategy that embraces my lifelong devotion to "whatever."
Don't misunderstand: I love to plant, tend and nurture my little corner of the earth. But I've made peace with my unkempt garden and in the process, discovered the unexpected pleasures of weeds, bugs and the general inevitability of life.
Join me as I travel down the garden path of least resistance.
An excellent recipe for a natural, homemade spider mite treatement, courtesy of CannabisCulture.com, a treasure trove of useful gardening information, no matter what you're growing:
To each quart of…
My local newspaper suggested that the time to start your indoor seeds was rapidly approaching.
Here in the Hudson Valley, that means anywhere from late February (zone 6) to mid- to late March (zone…
I was recently impressed with a gardening hacks article that appeared on the GreenUpgrader.com website about clever people creating unexpectedly efficient little gardens out of tires, gutters and…
As a maker of rain gauges, I am a fan of all forms of precipitation and I've always felt that the clinging water droplet is one of the finest forms. Delicate and temporary, they dangle for an…
My wild New Years Eve began by repotting an ancient snake plant. Where did the dirt go? Where did the years go?
Moving out of my college dorm sometime back in the early 1980s, I found a snake plant…
I don't like a lingering Christmas tree. My dismantling deadline is January 1. But how to assuage the lingering guilt associated with the no-longer-live tree? Repurpose your tree in the garden.
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It's 16 degrees outside and I'm worried about some of my more cold sensitive plants. My rhodos are curling and everything just looks...cold.
I just heard about something called FreezePruf and I'm…
Test your horticultural knowledge with this gardening quiz from the Mansfield (Ohio) News Journal.
I learned something new about petunias.
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I'm sorry, but I'd call the EPA if I found this thing growing in my garden.
Galeuse D'Eysines is a 10 to 15 pound heirloom pumpkin with sweet, smooth, edible flesh. But to get to that sweet, smooth,…
For years, I sold my rain gauges at a wholesale trade show. In the booth next to me, some friends carried beautiful copper tiki torches that sold like crazy. People were drawn to the promise of the…
I've often wondered—ok, maybe not often, but sometimes for sure—why petunias are sticky. It's not even a sap thing; it's just right there on their leaves, some kind of invisible sticky goo. Why?
It…
For about a week, we've been sharing our closet with a dead mouse. He's been...transitioning. In the small, clothing-packed confines of our closet, the smell peaked after about 7 days—I mean it…
A mouse, busy with winter preparations, has died in our attic. Directly above our bedroom closet. He smells more each day.
A cursory look in the attic was fruitless...his little corpse remained…
