(513) 561-8634For the last few weeks, you’ve been (hopefully) enjoying some wonderful harvests from your summer vegetable, flower and herb gardens. You’ve been watching your tomatoes grow to the perfect size and the perfect shade of red or yellow, you’re about to have more cucumbers than even the most prolific pickle fanatic could shake a stick […]
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 […]
From (A)pples to (Z)ucchini
Some of you may be lucky enough to be harvesting some crops from your home gardens by now. Namely, summer squash like straightneck yellow squash & zucchini. Zucchini & yellow squash have a shorter growing season than a lot of other crops, so even with the Mother’s Day Freeze of 2020, if you were careful, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Squash (the) Vine Borer
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cabbage worms, and squash vine borers. No, that’s not how the old nursery rhyme goes, but it’s how some of our gardens are. It’s no wonder that while we are excited to reap the benefits of growing food at home, and we […]
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 […]
To Prune, or Not To Prune
We’d like to chat about pruning your flowering spring bulbs, plants & shrubs for a minute. You may notice some of your daffodils, jonquils, hyacinths, tulips, and other spring bulbs have given you a few weeks of beautiful color, but are now starting to look a little rough around the edges. While it may be […]
Earth Day Turns 50
Earth Day turns 50 this year- Wednesday, April 22. Like everyone else celebrating a birthday in these spring and summer months in 2020, festivities might be a little subdued. Don’t fret- we can still go outside and give the Earth a high five and a birthday shout. There’s plenty more to be done, and hopefully […]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 5
- Next Page »
