Everlasting Flowers
Flowers are out in force in late summer and fall, and this is the perfect time to preserve some of that color and beauty to brighten your home in winter.
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Tag Archives: gardening
Growing Sweet Melons
August is a sweet time for melon lovers. Be sure to get the most out of your melons with these helpful tips.
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August Gardening To-Do’s
Although the heat of the dog days may slow us down a bit, there is still plenty of work for August gardeners.
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Classic Covers: Keeping Up with Yard Work
Some people are downright persnickety in the care of their lawns and gardens while others are content to let Mother Nature take her course. Apparently, there’s more than one way to green up a lawn.
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Butterfly Gardens
It’s been said that you can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass, it will come and sit on your shoulder, especially if you have their favorite plants growing in your garden.
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Cut Flower Care
Brightening your home with beautiful bouquets is one of the perks of flower gardening, and there are techniques for cutting and preserving flowers so they stay fresh and beautiful for as long as possible.
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July in the Garden: Keep the Fireworks Going
By now flower gardens are producing a profusion of gorgeous blooms: White, red, and purple bee balm are exploding overhead with echinacea, phlox, and agapanthus along with zinnias, delphiniums, daylilies, Shasta daisies, and verbenas adding to the festive array. How do you make the most of this abundance of scents and colors and keep the fireworks going for as long as possible?
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Sweet Smell in the Country
Who doesn’t love lavender? The spiky, flowering Mediterranean native of the mint family has it all: fragrance, form, flavor, and medicinal value.
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Notes from the Field
Host a Corn Roast! Spark a little magic among neighbors with an old-fashioned corn roast. Whether planning a barefoot affair or something more stylish, here are tips for the host: Buy Fresh. If purchasing from a farmers’ market, ask if the corn has been picked that day. Otherwise, peel part of the husk back and ... More
Sunflower
A field of sunflowers colors the landscape yellow and green along the New York State Thruway between Syracuse and Rochester. Just like their name, sunflowers adore full sun and warm weather. This plant is a North American native and was a key food crop for native peoples. Today, they’re still grown for food as their ... More
Green Building: It’s a Way of Life
Television’s Steve Thomas on home projects that are good for the earth and the family.
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Rose Care in Summer
To enjoy their beauty and scent for the longest time possible, roses require special care. But you can’t just rely on the sun and the rain.
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Edible Flowers
Flowers can be tossed in salads, sauteed with vegetables, fried in fritters, combined with soft butter or cream cheese as a spread, and even frozen in ice cubes to add interest to cold drinks. But, before you bite into a big flower sandwich, a word of caution …
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Homemade Pest Repellent
Your plants may need your help should pests appear.
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Gardening in June
June is the month that brings bugs out in full force and sets off the annual gardener’s battle waged against insects, disease, and wildlife. Here are some strategies for helping you win the war.
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A Retirement Acreage That Makes Sense
Each breath of lavender fills the atmosphere. The inventory of sachet’s, soaps, linen sprays, lotions, teas, wreaths, and colognes brings a refreshing brace of aroma therapy. The proprietors, ‘Kie’ and ‘Libbe’ O’Connor, are former city folk who started this fragrant farmstead nine years ago as a retirement business.
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Strawberry Harvest
“Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did,” William Allen Butler said of strawberries. As these luscious fruits of late spring now ripen in gardens in much of the country, here are some tips for getting a bountiful harvest.
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