Living Privacy Fence: Ideas for Hedges
Plan out some living privacy fence ideas with this list which highlights the best privacy hedge plants for height, color, or even edibility. When Esmee Mckee and her family moved…
Summer Flowering Bulbs List
Add sass, color, and class to your summer garden with a summer flowering bulbs list for a summer flower bulb primer.Summer is gardening’s crowded hour. So many perennials and annuals…
Prevent Root Rot Disease In Your Garden
Let’s face it. When visualizing the installation of a new vegetable or flower bed, our mind’s eye usually focuses on the essence of gardening: tasty veggies or fancy flowers. Everything…
Growing Peaches
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who swoon over the aroma and flavor of a ripe peach and those who have never tasted one. A lot…
Discover Uncommon Berries: Saskatoon, Honeyberry, Gooseberry and Currant
Summer means berry season, and U-pick farms abound offering strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries. But there are some new kids on the block offering new flavors and extending the season by…
What’s Bugging Your Garden: Borers and Soil Pests
Borers are either grubs (that become beetles) or caterpillars (the larvae of moths) that feed inside stems. Some borers eat the tissue of swelling buds and fruits; others attack roots…
Trap Crop Pest Control
My Kentucky garden has stink bugs, leaf-footed bugs, and aphids. These insects have also been spotted in entomologist Ayanava Majumdar’s research gardens in India, North Dakota, and Alabama, and wherever…
Good Garden Bugs for Pest Control
Aphids, caterpillars, grubs, and slugs are not only creepy-crawlies: They can wreak havoc on your garden and plants. But fear not! You don’t need dangerous chemicals to enjoy a lively,…
Backyard Orchard: Pruning and Weeding
A guide to the tools and techniques needed for pruning fruit trees in order to guarantee healthier plant life and better harvests from your backyard orchard. Pruning and Weeding Pruning…
Hardy Orange: Tending the Flying Dragon Tree
Want to grow a ‘Flying Dragon’ tree or other hardy orange cultivars? Learn about how to care for a trifoliate orange tree in your backyard. Sharp, stubborn, and sour, hardy…