Tips & Tricks
Garden Maintenance Schedule for February and March
*Apply [Powdered] Corn Gluten Meal at 20 lbs per 1000 sq feet to your lawn and bed area (after it is cleaned up) to control broad leaf weeds—if this is a concern. ( This year you may have already done this) Always remember that whatever else you are putting down ( soil, compost, mulch etc)–the [...]
The Debate About Corn Meal Gluten
I have received e-mails every day now from both professionals and home owners–about corn gluten meal–To put it down now–or— to not put it down- and what if it rains real hard after the application— are the main questions. With corn gluten meal- especially in the Spring- these questions are always looming. here are the [...]
Getting the Most Out of Your Garden: Companion Planting
Companion planting is a skill that I was taught by my maternal Grandmother who raised me. It is not new to older gardeners and has been taught in universities to food crop growers for decades. I’ve always used the skill in my organic ornamental designs as well. * The art of good companion planting is [...]
Holiday Decorating with Materials from your Garden
Why run to the grocery store or florist when it’s time to decorate—how about going out into your garden? ( much less stress then Garden Ridge) With a pair of clippers and a little imagination you’ll find a lot of decorating material for your table, your vases, your tree— even your packages. Simple and lovely [...]
Take The Time To Plant Your New Plants Right
By Lucy Harrell To start a new bed, remove grass and weeds from the bed area. If you are raising the bed levels- add enriched topsoil. In beds where the soil is just being amended- add 3‖- 4‖ of any organic compost mixed with 10% lava sand and till the mixture evenly down to 8‖ [...]
Mole Control– and Other Strange Critters
Yesterday I had a very full day–I realized the evening before that I have had a mole running amok through my north flower beds–the little critter had tunneled up under my cone flowers and other perennials-leaving their roots pushed up into the hot air and they looked pretty damaged as a result–I had two choices–trap / kill the [...]
