3 Container Options for Potted Plants
March 23, 2015When it comes to choosing a pot for container gardening, the material it’s made of matters.
Expand Your Garden with Rooted Stem Cuttings
April 19, 2013Starting new plants from stem cuttings is a fun and easy way to propagate them. Many herbs and common perennials, along with geraniums, impatiens, fuchsias, heliotrope, lantana and many other plants, are easy to root indoors.
Goodbye, Garden
October 11, 2012We got our first hard frost late last week so I’ve been busy pulling out the spent tomato and pepper plants and tossing them onto the compost pile.
Blacktop to Greentop
February 18, 2011Courtesy iStockphoto/Thinkstock Growing gardens in parking lots or other urban areas is not a new concept, but Joe Kovach, a horticulturist at Ohio State University, is studying ways to make it more productive. An old asphalt parking lot might not seem like a good place for a garden. But in urban areas it can be. […]
