Tammy Sons is a horticulture plant expert, garden writer, and educator. Tammy is the CEO and founder of TN Nursery, a thriving online plant nursery based in Altamont, Tennessee. She is also a prolific writer, sharing her knowledge through articles on various gardening topics, including plant ca...
Tennessee and Virginia, this native wildflower produces bright yellow, buttercup-like flowers during its autumn blooming period. Geum radiatum now grows in only 11 sites, and several of these sites have less than a dozen individual plants.
North Alabama is the coldest part of the state, all the way from Tennessee down to Birmingham. This chilly part of Alabama is in USDA Plant Hardiness Zones ranging from7b to 8a. Plants that survive low temperatures of5 degrees to 15 degreesgrow just fine in this part of the state. The ...
For example, take the Quick Cut Greens Harvester, a tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local Slow Money group. It enables small-scale farmers to harvest 175 pounds of green vegetables per hour—a huge ...
Onion grass also has culinary uses. The leaves and bulbs can be used fresh in salads and soups or as a garnish. The leaves, bulbs, and flowers have a mild onion or garlic flavor, which many people enjoy. If you didn’t know: According to the University of Tennessee Extension, “Native...
In general, the main pruning of a nut tree will happen in the first few years of its life to shape the tree for how you want it to grow. Then, regular maintenance will provide you with the best harvest year after year.Space Required I asked David, on average, how much space the ave...
Over the past 33 years, I have worked as the University Extension Area Horticulturalist in east Tennessee and in southwest Iowa. Over the past 23 years I have organized hundreds of educational meeting for commercial nursery and greenhouse growers, landscapers and garden center employees. I continue...
Where I live in East Tennessee, day length drops to ten hours on November 26. Days continue to decrease until the winter solstice on December 21. After the solstice, days increase until they return to ten hours on January 16. That means the Persephone period in my area occurs from November...
I want you to know that there are farms out there -- like Bill Keener in Sequachie Cove Farm in Tennessee -— whose cows do eat grass and whose pigs do roll in the mud,just like I thought. Sometimes I go to Bill’s farm and volunteer, so I can see up close and personal where ...
Snow-in-Summer Grasses: Deergrass Giant Wild Rye Purple Needle Grass Sheep Fescue Crops: Beans such as butter beans, lima beans, and others Corn such as pinky popcorn, silver queen hybrid sweet, and Tennessee red cob Grains such as barley, quinoa, and red stripe leaf ...