Most gardeners have a few houseplants in their lives. These could be a handful of low-care cacti that don’t mind a sunny windowsill and occasional drink of water. Or they could be a full dozen tropical plants that were evacuated from the garden to save them from the freezing cold outside. In my case, it’s usually the latter. Even so, I’ve learned some things in the process that I pass along to you (*cue evil Sith voice*) my young apprentices (mwahaha). Read More
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Winter Gardening – When the Cold Winds Blow
It happens every year. The leaves begin to fall off the trees. One or two at first, then they come down so fast that you’re left with a large pile of them cluttering up the yard. If that wasn’t bad enough, then the mercury starts creeping southward until one day it refuses to budge above freezing. Hopefully by this point, gardeners have evacuated their yards of any tropical plants and mulched any frost sensitive specimens that were scheduled to remain outside. Of course, there’s plenty of things that gardeners can do to improve their garden plants’ survival rate through the bitterly cold winter months. Read More
