Like many of you I will enjoy today with family, good food and celebrating all the bounty with which I have been blessed. I am also celebrating the end of the garden season. As crazy as it was, it was a good season in my garden. Most of the leaves are raked up, beds are…
Master the art of African wildflower gardening by choosing indigenous plants that suit your climate and soil. Prepare your garden with well-drained, fertile soil and plant during the rainy season for optimal growth. Regular watering and planting in groups not only enhances your garden’s beauty but also supports biodiversity by attracting pollinators. Was a long…
Pinky Winky has gone Prime! One of my all-time favorite hydrangea paniculata varieties, Pinky Winky is now being offered as Prime. This means you can now choose Pinky Winky or Pinky Winky Prime hydrangea for your landscape or pollinator habitat, as I will explain. Your first question is what the difference is, and that would…
Besides taking Mounjaro, a weight-loss drug, Jim Gaffigan found that gardening benefited his health. He said gardening encouraged him to eat healthier and helped him achieve his fitness goals. Incorporating more vegetables into the diet can increase happiness, according to a nutrition expert Jim Gaffigan‘s hack to eating more greens is to grow them himself….
Adam KempPBS News As he peels back the husk of corn grown in his garden, Miko Brandon reveals deep red kernels hiding underneath. Brandon knows that unlike yellow and white varieties, this Chickasaw red corn will have a sweet but nutty flavor to it when cooked or made into cornmeal or bread. He has dreams…
The Prairie Garden book series just hit another home run. The hot-off-the-press 2025 edition, “Budget-Minded Gardening,” is the perfect Christmas gift for yourself and other gardeners. Books tailored to gardening in the Upper Midwest are rare. Even rarer: an entire book series with new and different editions published each year and especially suited for Northern…
The Atwells bought several houseplants recently, including an amaryllis bulb. Buy a bulb with a green sprout visible on top for a guarantee of huge, showy flowers around the holidays. Tatiana Foxy/Shutterstock The day I dug our dahlia beds I got a little depressed. It was the last actual bit of outdoor gardening that I…
KEARNEY â They say if you want to be happy for a year get married. If you want to be happy for 10 years buy a dog. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, plant a garden. Michelle Fischer tries hard to be happy. She loves staying busy so she works two jobs, one…
