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Last Saturday, I was covered in dirt, my back ached, the scream of a trillion cicadas rang in my ears, and, despite my best efforts, a sunburn was developing on the back of my neck. I was in heaven. Over the course of the day, I planted my summer haul of annuals (a riot of…
Planting season is here, and both vegetables and florals are high on gardenersâ list for beautification and consumption. For Nasturtium Garden Club members, itâs all about aesthetics and community service. Sandy Fitzgerald, chair of the Community Beautification Committee, said working on the flower beds along Muskogee Avenue makes a big difference in peopleâs lives and…
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls mosquitoes the “world’s deadliest animal.” It’s a weighty moniker for an insect that weighs just 2.5 milligrams, but it’s well deserved because vector-borne diseases, including those transmitted by mosquitoes, cause more than 700,000 deaths worldwide every year. According to the University of Alaska, “the oldest mosquito…
Like other Caryota palms, Caryota mitis is known as a fishtail palm due to its ragged leaftips. You may know that “fish tale” means an exaggerated, boastful story and is based on the much-observed tendency of fisherfolk to overstate their catch. For gardeners, however, the word “fishtail” evokes stately palms with gracefully ragged leaftips that…
During the height of the pandemic, when most of us were working from home, I was sent a link to a recorded Zoom video about horticultural therapy. I had never heard of horticultural therapy, but during the presentation, I learned that it is a professional practice used to improve lives by connecting people with plants….
Don’t discard them. And, I’m not talking about table scraps in this case. Even though you may have been picking your crops throughout the year when they were ripe, the Fall season is usually recognized as the farming and gardening harvest season. This is the time to finish picking your carrots, squash, beets, and rutabaga….
You’ve done everything you’re supposed to do and your plants are still underperforming. Water quality and factors such as salts, pH, and alkalinity can determine the suitability of water for use on plants. To understand which type of water is best, it helps to know what’s in each kind of water. Tap water is suitable…
You spell potato, Dan Quayle spells it P-O-T-A-T-O-E. Some of you may recall the Vice President’s 1992 gaffe making a 6th-grader misspell “Potato.” In the VP’s defense, however, he was using an incorrect flash card prepared by a teacher. Quayle later wrote in his memoirs, “I can’t overstate how discouraging and exasperating the whole event…
