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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 […]
Fall Garden Planting
For 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 […]
Thank you for thinking of us
Nobody knew what to expect at the start of March this year. Let’s face it, we still don’t know what’s really around the corner. In the last 16 weeks or so, we have seen everyone, in every industry, make some sort of adjustment to help get through the challenges we have and will continue to […]
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 […]
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 […]
