The Cumberland County Master Gardener Garden Tour was held back in June and nearly 250 came to tour gardens. seeing the gardens and the creativity of each of the gardeners firmed-up something that had been percolating in my head for a long time. I like it when my brain finally makes sense of something.
Growing tomatoes in containers is fun and successful. But how do you get the best results? Urban Gardener Reggie Sheffield engineered a tomato race in his backyard.
Soul gardening? Does that count as gardening? Laura shares her reasons for laying low while celebrating a milestone in her son’s life. Laura needs a little root nurturing.
Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower) – A Story of Love, Lust and Despair (OR….. My name is Wendy, and I am addicted to plants….)
Three sister method of planting works brilliantly. Corn, beans and squash growing together, in my experience this year, proves very successful.
Most hydrangeas flower on the wood they made last year. Which means right after it finished flowering last year, it began making flower buds, which would become this year’s flowers.
Pruning roses? Thorns can all out lacerate. Bugs? Encountering a ground-nest of bees while digging a new garden, can be a bummer buzz. Sunburn? That garden project took MUCH longer than it was supposed to. You might imagine gardening and plant maintenance is a walk in the park but there are things to watch out [...]
Sporobolis heterolepsis, or Prairie Dropseed, is a fine textured native grass with late summer seed heads and fall into winter color.
No flowers were injured in the process of making these strange photos. Shake things up!
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Guerrilla Gardener Collective Fundraiser
by Laura Mathews · July 28, 2010
Plants can save the world. And there is a collective of gardeners in Harrisburg that gets that. Support the Harrisburg Guerrilla Gardeners Collective Sunday at a benefit punk rock show at the Abbey Bar at ABC in Harrisburg between 4pm and 8pm.