Location: Midwest
I’m tired of all the snow. Who’s with me? I saw this weekend that even our neighbors in the south got a dusting.
I’m ready for winter to be over and this is the time of year when I always get big ideas for my flower gardens. Are you the same way? I’m going to plant a separate cutting garden so my street-side beds look full. I’m going to mix in more perennials so&hellip
I have several gardens in Chicagoland. My community garden plot is a sunny patch of clay where I can grow my veggies. I decided we would grow organic. Simply put I didn’t want my wife and I to ingest toxins.
[Even as a kid I had an aversion to poisons, both mentally and physically. I’m a child of the 70s; and in elementary school we were told about the negative environmental effects of&hellip
Location: Minnesota
As an indoor flower, African Violets are the most dependable for year-round color and variety. Easy to raise, all they really need is an occasional drink, some sunshine and a good feeding every few weeks. Violets like smaller pots but need good drainage because they don’t like wet soil or damp leaves.
I love my violets all grouped together for interesting color and&hellip
I love the outdoors. As a kid growing up in South Carolina, nature always attracted and inspired me. Carrying nets and jars, I frequently walked through the woods to creeks or ponds looking for tortoises, turtles, crayfish, snakes, salamanders, frogs, toads, caddisfly larvae (which we called ‘little terds’ for obvious reasons), and anything else too slow to escape. My mom was not always&hellip
