Gardeners sometimes curse the shade. At first glance, every desirable plant in the garden center seems to require at least six hours of direct sunlight per day. But shade can also be a blessing. It not only keeps you cool as you pull weeds and spread mulch, but can…
An assortment of pots on this deck giving variety of colors and textures. Whether it is a large residential garden, a small city lot, an apartment or condominium with a deck or balcony, there is room for some garden containers. Gardening in containers can be versatile because is…
Sun Gro grower specialist Harrison Meekins shares expert advice with MarthaStewart.com for growing cucumbers indoors, from planting through harvesting.
The month of April has a lot going for it, especially for gardeners! Even though the official date for the beginning of the spring season is in March. April is often the month that gardeners get into high gear because the weather is more predictably, what we might refer…
Tomato seeds! Where to start? So many to choose from! Looking over a recent garden catalog arrival, there were over 100 different named cultivars of tomato seed offered for sale. It is hard to think of any other offering that would have such a vast selection.
March is here and the official start of spring is right around the corner. Depending on where you live, you are either starting the annual spring garden clean-up, or staring moodily at a landscape still covered with snow. No matter what your situation, get the creative juices flowing with…
There are many flowers that herald the coming of the spring season and most gardeners have their favorites. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we have a surprisingly large number of shrubs that bloom in January/February. Our own native Mahonia, (Oregon Grape), is a good example with the bright yellow…
“A rose is a rose is a rose,’ Gertrude Stein famously wrote. But sometimes a rose is not, in fact, a rose. The perennial “Christmas rose” (Helleborus niger) is more closely related to buttercups than true roses, but the elegant, rose-like configuration of the flowers probably made an earlier…
Depending on where you live, December is probably a slow time in the garden. The stalks and other debris left over from the gardening season just past may still haunt the landscape like horticultural ghosts. The sustainable gardener living inside your…
Halloween has passed, Daylight Savings time has bowed out, and the spring-blooming bulbs have been planted (maybe). It’s time to think about holiday decorations, no matter what holidays you celebrate. Gray and Damp Meets…
It’s that time of year again…All manner of skeletons, witches, tombstones and other items of Halloweenalia are popping up on stoops, porches and front lawns. But something else is also populating these autumn displays—decorative gourds—and they will hang around long after the skeletons retreat to attics and garages.
As of September 22, we have officially moved into the autumn season. I don’t think that plants know it is autumn, nor that they care, but we humans do know and care. Here in the Pacific Northwest, it has been a very unpredictable spring and summer season, and autumn…
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