If you have guests coming over, you certainly don’t want to feel shame at the bad condition of your garden. You should feel like this place is truly yours, and somewhere you’d be proud to entertain. We can help, by having a large selection of gardeners near me we can help you get...
1.a plot of ground, usu. near a house, where flowers, shrubs, vegetables, fruits, or herbs are cultivated. 2.a piece of ground or other space, commonly with ornamental plants, trees, etc., used as a park. 3.a fertile spot.
A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma a...
Planning a Container Garden If you don't have a backyard or plot of land available, try your hand a growing a potted or container vegetable garden on your porch, balcony, deck or patio. This type of garden is the most simple to plant and maintain, for the first-time gardener. When pla...
Some of it isn’t even available at the store. Kohlrabi, for example, is hard to come by if you don’t grow it yourself. Likewise, I wasn’t sure what price to put for some of the herbs. Some harvests would have been bigger, were it not for vicious attacks by the local squirrel...
To which we then asked to speak to a manger to be advised there was no one available whilst the member of staff was smirking at my husband. This will not be somewhere we would recommend due to poor quality of food and service. Date of visit: ...
Upstaged by rose campion, nevertheless. deutzia ‘Chardonnay Pearls’ in bloom deserves a closer look. Readily available a few decades ago, it can be hard to find today and does best in partial shade I would never have planted brilliant fuschia in front of a red brick wall, but when a ...
Do your best to keep broody hens near their regular laying boxes. I have had seasons where there were more eggs thaneggplantsin my garden! Roosters If you keep roosters, you know that they have a purpose. But they also cause hens to fight and distract from the job of pest control. ...
Insectsthat can be controlledstay in the soil near this years crop hoping that the same crop will be available to them next year. If you come along and plant something different that they don’t eat, they starve and die out. So when the initial crop returns in 3 or 4 years the pest...
This, in combination with thepolar vortexin the midwest and the ragingdroughtup and down California got me pondering: what does climate change mean for gardeners, and what can we do to mitigate the effects of more extreme weather? This is a meant as a thought exercise, not a call to acti...