In the short growing season of northwestern Colorado, we know the value of every frost-free day and each precious seed that makes it to harvest. But beyond the vegetables and flowers we grow, gardening offers something even more enduring: wisdom passed from one generation to the next. Intergenerational gardening is more than nostalgic, it’s vital….
Sunflowers, a soil workshop, a neighborhood gardening fair and a spring celebration at a Cloverdale nursery kick off the season during the first weekend of spring. Sonoma Sonoma Mission Gardens offering free sunflower kits Sonoma Mission Gardens is offering free packets of sunflower seeds to customers in a show of support for Ukraine, where the…
Ever wondered why your newly planted perennials often just sit and seem to do nothing for a year? Frustrating, isn’t it? There’s a good reason for it, though. It’s called the garden three-year rule which says that a plant will sleep its first year, creep its second and leap in its third year. This is…
The weather hasn’t been wonderful in 2024, but even heavy showers and high winds can’t hold back lots of excitement and activity in the gardening world. From flood-proof gardens and sustainable planting at RHS Chelsea in May to in-demand annuals for hanging baskets to brighten up our outdoor space, there’s been lots to enjoy, embrace…
In a bid to mitigate the trend of junk food consumption by Nigerian children, the University of Ibadan, on Thursday, unveiled a toolkit for kids to carry out safe planting and gardening activities at school and home environments. The toolkit concealed in a box includes garden tools like a hand spade and fork, hand gloves,…
CHICAGO — WGN’S Plant Daddy Tim Joyce is back to share several tips on how to keep your plants in tip-top shape. How to get rid of Spider Mites Fall means cooler temperatures return to Chicagoland. But how can you make sure your plants are spider-mite-free when you bring them in for the season? Spider…
Even though we are still technically in the last few days of summer, every year about this time I find I must wrap my mind around the fact that summer is over, and the rainy season is soon to begin. I need to get emotionally ready to put the gardens to bed. It is not…
“Gratitude must smell, if it has a smell, of rain-soaked earth,” the late Guatemalan Nobel Prize-winning novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias once wrote. Asturias’ musings on gratitude remind me of my grandmother, who was born in 1912 in a farming village in the Carpathian Mountains forming the border between modern-day Slovakia and Poland. It was a country…
