Your Lawn: Keeping an Eye Out for Trouble

If you’re a recent home buyer, you may not realize that there’s more to maintaining a lawn than just the mowing.  Issues arise throughout the year, such as grass diseases and animal invaders that can quickly spoil the look of your freshly cut yard.  Thankfully, there’s help nearby!  I’ve found that a great place to […]

ANTS! Looking for food in all the WRONG places (my house!)

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‘Tis the season for ants and other insects to invade our homes in search of a meal. I hate to tell you this, but it gets worse before it gets better! As I write, it’s the first week of June, and ants have arrived in my kitchen, bathroom, and garage.  I placed liquid ant traps […]

Summer flowers: Help them last the distance until frost

  It’s that time of year when a drive past home and garden centers gets my own amateur landscaper’s heart racing!  I feel a surge of enthusiasm to plant something – anything – as I peruse the aisles of brand new, vibrantly colorful flowers, fluffy green ferns, and musty, aromatic bags of soil on display. […]

Your Home Garden: Plan, Trial, Error (Repeat)

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Have you planted a garden so you can enjoy delicious, home-grown vegetables and later been terribly disappointed with your slim harvest?  Home gardeners make some mistakes that could be easily avoided with better planning beforehand.  In my own last-minute, small garden, I learned the hard way that no preparation = disappointment. Anyone who has never […]

Mulch or Pine Straw? The Pros and Cons

New bedding plants are beautiful, even exciting to add to our landscape, but we must remember what sets them off and really makes everything get noticed:  The mulch, the quiet hero of our landscape plan. Shrubs and other plantings stand out so much more when framed by a fresh, even layer of pine straw, wood […]

Snow and ice: Poor man’s fertilizer?

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On a snowy day years ago, my grandfather told me that snow and ice were actually good for the soil.  I wondered – could there be any science to back this up?  I should have known from my elder, it really was true!  Granddad grew up on a farm in Tennessee, and he knew from […]

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