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A GROWING CONCERN: From great soil comes great plants
AS YOU SIT reading this, I am dumping mulch and bark from out of my work pants pockets.
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A GROWING CONCERN: Don’t be impatient with certain flowers
ALTHOUGH WE HAVE been hearing about record rains in April these last three weeks, I have been busy…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Time for grueling, repetitive, annual seasonal service
TODAY’S THE MIDDLE of late early spring, in five days it will be the middle of spring.
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A GROWING CONCERN: April prep bears fruit for your garden.
THIS IS NO LATE April Fools’ joke: I am really not a flower guru so much as a…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Amazing innovations for gardening
TODAY WE ARE at the beginning of an extremely hectic, labor-intensive, busy, busy time for all gardeners and…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Easter lilies a lasting symbol of the season
WELL, MARCH SHOULD be going out like a lamb; but I — being a good old “Northern” Wisconsin…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Garden chores are arriving in full force
TIME JUST KEEPS growing on. It is already March 4, or day four of mid-late winter.
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A GROWING CONCERN: Take care of your dusty houseplants
I’VE HEARD FROM some of you that you’re getting a little tired of the long dark days, having…
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A GROWING CONCERN: The lion of winter is on its last roar
IT ISN’T THAT I wanted the snow and hard frosts that occurred this past week.
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A GROWING CONCERN: Planting with pizzazz at higher elevations
I WAS IN Safeway this week reflecting on March tasks while talking with April about getting a jump-start…
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A GROWING CONCERN: The three tenets of pruning
Last week we learned the seven reasons to prune; now we whittle that number further, to the three…
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A GROWING CONCERN: For many reasons, now is the time to prune
PRUNING. THERE IS no question in my mind that, by far, the best thing that I do horticulturally…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Resolve to attend garden extravaganza
SO HERE WE are in a new year, with strands of tinsel still clinging to the carpet, empty…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Poinsettias require exact conditions
SO HERE WE are. December. In the last month of the year.
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A GROWING CONCERN: Remember the dos and don’ts of winter gardening
BECAUSE WE ALL are going over our lists and checking them twice, I thought I would chime in…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Turn you yard into a neighborhood showcase
SO THE HIGHLAND snow has given way to monsoon rains for days on end, and there seems no…
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A GROWING CONCERN: Botanical stocking stuffers that are sure to please
THIS WEEK, WE all gather here across the county for Thanksgiving.
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A GROWING CONCERN: Time to deck out the yard in holiday lights
THE RECENT COLD weather has definitely taken the wind out of the sails on your blooming annuals and…