A very heartfelt wish to you and yours this Christmas day. May the joy and happiness of the holiday season continue to fill your life throughout the coming year. Let peace on earth, good will toward men be the order of the day, not just the passing wishes of the season. May you plant the [...]
Read More...Here’s one last tip about cleaning up your garden this fall. Make sure to get rid of any and all diseased leaves. Leaving them in the soil during the winter will enable the disease spores to attack the plants again next spring. Also, putting diseased leaves or other plant parts into your compost will contaminate [...]
Read More...I actually like squirrels. They’re fun to watch and they help me get rid of the walnuts in my yard from the tree I planted years ago without thinking about the consequences of my actions. But that’s another story. Squirrels, like all of nature’s creatures, do their best to survive the winter, even if it [...]
Read More...This tip isn’t so much about clean up, but more about the fact that you can wait to harvest certain root vegetables well into the winter. We’re mainly talking about hard root veggies like parsnips or carrots. Some people say that they even taste sweeter when harvested after a good hard frost. To make late [...]
Read More...Here’s another tip in our series on yard and garden fall clean up. This one’s about cleaning up your annuals and perennials. The same time you’re getting rid of the debris from your annuals is a good time to clean up those perennials. Doing it now saves you the trouble of extra work in the [...]
Read More...