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How to Pre-Germinate Your Seeds 10 Mar 2013 | 02:11 am
Recently my fifteen year old refrigerator gave up the ghost and we finally spent the bucks to get some new kitchen appliances. Unfortunately, I stored my hundreds of old seed packets and harvested see...
Freezing Cutting Celery and Other Herbs 7 Oct 2012 | 10:41 pm
One of my favorite annual herbs is leaf or cutting celery (Apium graveolens ‘Amsterdam’). It is difficult to grow real celery here in Minnesota and buying celery in the grocery store is extremely expe...
Fall Garden Festival 25 Aug 2012 | 02:27 am
I will be doing a presentation on my favorite subject–fragrance gardening–at the Fall Garden Festival Sept. 22nd in Red Wing, Minnesota. Here is more information: The Goodhue County Horticultural Soci...
Straw Bale Gardening with Style 23 Jul 2012 | 03:42 am
An article I wrote about straw bale gardening appears in the latest July/Aug 2012 Northern Gardener magazine. My friend Karen found a new way to container garden using straw bales as the growing mediu...
An Easier Way to Feed Hummingbirds 21 May 2012 | 02:30 am
I’m sitting here watching the hummingbirds come and go on the feeder that is hanging just outside my living room window and thinking about how much easier it is now. I didn’t hang a hummingbird feede...
Little Mischief Rose and JBs 16 Jan 2012 | 01:52 pm
This has been a strange winter here in Minnesota. Here it is the middle of January and we still have no snow on the ground. We have had some snow fall here and there, but then comes a day like today w...
Giant Swallowtail Caterpillars in MN 15 Sep 2011 | 09:14 am
I was deadheading the Dictamnus (gasplant) in my fragrance garden last week when I found two really ugly looking things eating the leaves. They were so homely that at first I thought it was mulberry b...
The Montreal Botanic Garden 16 Aug 2011 | 12:18 am
We recently returned to Quebec and visited the Montreal Botanic Garden. I was very impressed with how much there was to see and would heartily recommend the visit to anyone. The gardens are expansive...
Mole Assassin Extraordinaire 30 May 2011 | 03:48 am
Last year I tried living with the moles and not trapping them. It didn’t work. See last season’s article for why I quit trapping and also the photos of the debacle, but the bottom line is that I am ba...
Do Washers and Dryers Kill Ticks? 26 May 2011 | 12:37 am
Does washing and drying your gardening clothes kill ticks that have hitchhiked into your home? In a word--no.
