A lot of people find joy in watching a garden grow, but only a handful have a desire to get their hands dirty. This list of the best gifts for gardeners is for the latter. Ya know, the green-thumbed folks who would rather spend their downtime digging, weeding and planting than doing, well, literally anything […]
May and June are the months our gardens come alive. They also are the months when we celebrate Mother’s and Father’s Day. Most appropriate, I believe. Parenting and gardening have a lot in common. The goal is to give an individual plant (or person) a good start in the world, to contribute to their individual […]
I’ve been answering gardeners’ tree questions for 54 years. I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the more interesting ones. Why is bark falling off my crape myrtles? That’s normal. Horticulturists refer to it as “exfoliating” bark. Sounds dermatological. The reason it happens is because bark is a dead tissue that can’t expand as […]
May 20—PLATTSBURGH — It’s time to lineup for the annual Clinton County Master Gardeners’ Plant Sale, which will be held Saturday June 1, from 9 a.m. until all the plants are sold. “It’s at the Clinton County Fairgrounds,” Linda Noyes, a master gardener, said. “Last year, we had 700 perennials. I don’t know how many […]
Longtime master gardener John Nash, with more than 65 years of digging in the dirt, is a bit concerned that gardeners will take the news that they might be in slightly warmer zones for cold-hardy plants and run with it too far. The hardiness zones, he warned, are based on averages, so temperatures can still […]
Apr. 6—Garner 42 tournament Garner ISD will be hosting a 42 fundraiser April 12 and 13. The Genesis Tournament, celebrating the birthplace of 42, will be held April 12 and 13 at Garner ISD, 2222 Garner School Road. Warm-ups begin April 12 with check-in at 6:30 p.m., with play beginning at 7 p.m. The warm-up […]
This is your reminder not to be an April Fool and plant warm-season vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, basil or squash. In your container gardens do not yet plant coleus, begonias or impatiens. If you do, the joke will be on you when an April frost or chilly night arrives in a few weeks and […]
Mar. 23—With a Monarch butterfly wing print cape over her shoulders and antennae dangling from the top of her head, Mary Hogue was a fitting representative for the national grassroots Pollinator Pathway organization. Hogue and fellow Pollinator Pathway board member Jackie Algo, whose yellow and black striped scarf mimicked the colors of a bee, sang […]
Feb. 20—BEMIDJI — The Beltrami County Master Gardeners will host a spring garden party with the doors opening at 7:45 a.m. and the meeting starting at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 16, at Evangelical Free Church, 115 Carr Lake Road SW. The program will open with Joe Bergeson, third-generation owner of Bergeson Nursery in Fertile, […]
If you’ve ever driven across the Continental Divide, you know that mind trip you get of the water going to one distant ocean or another, all of it determined by just a short space of ground. Much of your gardening success for 2024 will be determined on jobs you get done in the next several […]
Jan. 22—Despite the rainy conditions on Saturday, the University of California Master Gardeners opened their local Winter Series UC Master Gardener Learning Garden three-part workshop to provide knowledge on the winter crop growing season and offer gardening advice for anyone looking to hit their backyards this spring. Part one covered three topics, according to UC […]