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Nutrients in the Garden 6: Get Acquainted With Your Soil

Gardens

This is where you want to get it right! With the wrong soil, your garden will struggle and you might consider throwing in the trowel and giving up. Simply put, poor soil = poor garden. We can prevent this by doing our homework now, while it’s still too cold to garden.

March 10, 2014 Read more

Fascinated with Fertilizer

Gardens

In agriculture, we are trying very hard to get the word out: we feed the world.

June 24, 2013 Read more

The Secret to a Colorful Landscape

Gardens

I enjoy planting, watering, and nurturing a plant to its fullest potential. To keep my landscape the “prettiest on the block,” I plant a combination of perennials and annuals.

July 3, 2012 Read more

How to Properly Diagnose Plant Deficiencies

Spotlights

After enjoying an afternoon of swimming, we came home for more water fun – that is watering the garden and flowers. Watering is a chore that cannot be skipped during hot summer days. As I was watering my day lilies I noticed yellow leaves. I turned my attention from watering to diagnosing.

June 1, 2011 Read more

Potassium in the Soil

Spotlights

I can’t get enough of our local garden show; thankfully I was able to spend two days taking it all in. The heart of the show are spectacular displays of full grown trees, shrubs, and flowers massed together in large architectural landscapes created by local garden and landscape businesses.

March 11, 2011 Read more

Nitrogen in the Soil

Gardens

The weather has been erratic lately. One day the girls are running through the yard in their flip flops and the next day they are wearing snow boots building a snowman. This weather has even triggered the tulips. They are starting to pop up out of the soil.

February 24, 2011 Read more