Cypress Mulch Problems

I have posted this note from the WaterKeeper Organization (they’ve targeted garden writers and you’ll see it posted all over the Net on different garden blogs/sites in the next few weeks). I have also asked the Louisiana Forestry Assoc and their Secondary Producers Trade Association for comments and responses.

Change of heart – need your help

I’d like to make a deal with you and I’m going to need your help with it. You see, I’ve just spent three months in a warmer climate than Canada and while this is the perk of being a writer with a laptop, it also comes with a price tag. In this case, I was [...]

Give Me One Reason You Can’t Do This

Earth Hour is coming up on Saturday, March 29. We’re going to ask you all to shut down your power – all of it – for one hour beginning at 8pm and ending at 9pm. It’s a small thing but watch this video to get the impact.

Web Seminar on Water Management

I just signed off from a web seminar put on for the media and featuring speakers on water management in the garden. Let me summarize what I took away from the event.

Blogger’s Bloom Day

I confess I cheated a little bit with this picture. It really isn’t in my garden at home but in the garden where I happen to be at the moment.

How to Grow Shamrocks

It seems a proper time of year to be talking about how to grow Shamrocks. And the good news is that you’re going to have a ton of choices about this charming (but potentially invasive in Southern climates) plants. To begin with the wood-sorrel family contains about 900 species of these plants – from annuals [...]

Guys Don’t Need No Garden Fitness

The Net is awash right now with all the helpful hints (mostly from female bloggers I note) that we should all get ourselves ready for gardening by getting fit.

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