by Ken Burger | Jul 7, 2020 | Gardening Tips
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...
by Ken Burger | Jul 3, 2020 | Gardening Tips
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...
by Ken Burger | Jun 19, 2020 | Flowering Shrubs, Garden supplies, Gardening Tips, News, Roses
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...
by Ken Burger | May 30, 2020 | Annuals, Gardening Tips, News
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...
by Ken Burger | May 12, 2020 | Annuals, Crape Myrtles, Flowering Shrubs, Gardening Tips, Perennials
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...
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