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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, […]
Cedar Apple Rust- what is it, how to treat it
To a gardener, juniper trees & apple trees are like oil & water- they don’t mix. Well, they DO mix, but not in a good way. Cedar apple rust (Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae) is a fungal disease that requires juniper plants to complete its complicated two year life-cycle. Spores overwinter as a reddish-brown gall on young twigs […]
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 […]
Cabbage Worms & Loopers- what to watch for
Last week we locked horns with some deer issues. It’s another week, and so another critter to wrestle. Are you noticing signs of pests worming their way in to your vegetable plants? If you’re seeing some holes in the leaves of your Cole crops (cruciferous vegetables, in the mustard ((Brassica)) family, and descendants of wild […]
Burger Farm & Garden Center named to nationwide Top 40 Plant Nursery list
You like us! You really like us! Check out this link from Wikilawns, naming Burger Farm & Garden Center as one of the Top 40 Plant Nurseries in the whole nation! Come see why they gave us this ranking! We’re open 10-5 today, and we’re practicing social distancing & safe shopping guidelines. The Wiki-Wonder award […]
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 […]
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