Protect your plants from freezing night time temperatures It doesn’t seem fair that Mother Nature blesses us with a few 70 degree, sunny days that wake up our “sleeping beauty” flowering trees and shrubs and then sends us nighttime temperatures below freezing for two nights in a row. These freezing temperatures can be very detrimental […]
Lawn Care Simplified
SPRING LAWN CARE SIMPLIFIED – OUR GUIDE TO ACHIEVING A SPECTACULAR LAWN We hear it all the time, “I just want a pretty lawn, but I’ve got some weeds and some bare spots. What do I do first?” The truth is that there is not one correct answer because so much depends on the current […]
Late to the party- our favorite “late” bloomers
In most cases, mid July isn’t considered late summer- technically it’s still the first month, but a gardener’s calendar and mind can look at time a little differently. Even though there’s a full two months until the first official day of Autumn, we’re now in what can be considered the throes of summer, and you […]
Here Comes the Sun: Summer Solstice & the garden pest of the week
It may have felt a little more like summer this week, and hopefully your lawn & garden are hitting their summer stride as well- because ready or not, it’s officially here! The June or summer solstice, marking the first day of the season is Saturday, June 20, 2020. In the southern hemisphere, the June solstice […]
Jumping in June for pollinator perennials
June is a big month for gardeners. Spring gives way to summer, it’s National Pollinator Month and June is also Perennial Gardening Month. This month is a really great time get your perennials in the ground, and be sure to include some native pollinator plants to also further the ever so important mission of bees, […]
Don’t forget your medicine
Most of us know by now how beneficial gardening, plants and growing your own food can be. First and foremost are the improvements to your mental and physical health. Improving environmental conditions, benefits to the economy (local and at large,) and strengthening educational efforts from school age and beyond, are a few more in a […]
Oh, deer….
Picture it, 2020, Cincinnati, (not Sicily 😉 ) you’re in your garden…it survived the post Mother’s Day frost, it’s surviving COVID-19, and therefore, it’s *probably*surviving you obsessively checking each sprout, bud, new leaf or growth every day, multiple times a day. You get excited thinking about all of the salsa and marinara sauce you’ll […]
What to do with late season frost damage
It’s *almost* hard to believe we’re still contending with frost warnings around and AFTER Mother’s Day, but then we remember: we’re in Cincinnati, it’s 2020, we’re in the middle of a global pandemic, and just about anything seems possible. It does seem like we’re in the last week of the danger weather for tender new […]