PREPARING HOUSEPLANTS FOR INDOORS By: Gary Garner Sr. It’s time to prepare houseplants that have spent the summer outside to come inside for the winter. Obviously, you could just pick them up, bring them inside and let Mother Nature have her way. The other side of that is you don’t know what kind of undesirables you may bring in with…
By: Gary Garner Sr. I recently was trying to think of some tips that might save you time, labor and maybe a little money on your lawn care. The “Lazy Man” is always trying to find a quick, easy and cheaper way to care for his lawn Obviously, the easiest way is to hire someone to do the lawn. That…
FALL LAWN SEEDING – By: Gary Garner Sr. I have always been a strong advocate of early lawn seeding in the fall. If the weather has begun to cool and we receive a reasonable amount of rain I like to start fall seeding soon after mid-August. This year would be an exception to that idea. As hot and dry as August…
Fall Planting By: Gary Garner Sr. It is now time to start planting fall cole crops, flowers, etc., at least according to the calendar. Then I take a look at the thermometer, it reads 93, feeling like 100 and I’m not so certain I want to do much planting. People have started to plant fall vegetables. Cabbage, broccoli, and other…
Nothing says fall like Mums! Originally from China, they were brought to Europe in the 1600’s. Mums have been cultivated for over 2500 years and continue to increase in popularity. There are now over 5000 varieties in cultivation. Through hybridization, many flower forms are available such as daisy, pompon, cushion, buttons, decorative spiders, and spoon-petal. They are also available in…
By: Gary Garner Sr. You have planted and grown to this point what I hope is a nice productive garden. If you are like most people I know, you now are harvesting more than you can use on a daily basis. The question now is what do you do with the excess? Do you throw it away, do you give…
By: Gary Garner Sr. I know many people like to save their seed from one year to the next as both a way to save money and have the vegetables they like. In some cases, this works fine, and in some cases, it does not work well. There are actually three kinds of seed, hybrid seed, open-pollinated seed and heirloom…
By: Gary Garner Sr. Like me you may have a number of beautiful containers of various flowers and other plants on your deck, patio, porch or other areas of the yard. As I write this I can see, I see pots of begonia, Hosta, vinca, marigold, a bay tree, some Christmas Catus, Japanese maple and a drift rose. There are…
By Gary Garner Sr. I get many questions and see much written about the best time to mow your lawn. My answer is when you have time and when it’s convenient to do so. I know this sounds flippant, but in today’s busy world not everything can be done at the best time. If you work a nine to five…
Summer months of June, July, and August bring excessive heat, spells of dry weather along with possible storms and heavy downfalls of rain. All of these will take a toll on our flower gardens, vegetable gardens and newly planted shrubs and trees. What to do? How hot is it? How Humid is it? Is it cloudy? Partly cloudy? Full sun?…
