When I first planted my backyard, my husband called my garden Death Row. I wanted to grow flowers and vegetables as my grandmothers had done and trees as my mother had done, but my efforts fell under ...
As busy as the spring gardening season is, so also is fall gardening a busy time. There is clearly more to do in spring because of more planting, but many spring activities are also fall activities.
Rosemary is a versatile plant, able to be used for everything from cooking to making homemade soap. If you want to grow it ...
When I was a kid, my friends and I spent long summer days outdoors, picking daisies, observing roly-poly (also known as pill) bugs, holding caterpillars and trying to catch fireflies (lightning bugs).
Each month in Garden Talk, you’ll meet a different master gardener or expert plant person from western Massachusetts, learn about their gardening lives, and get advice on everything from pumpkins to ...
Crop Mastery is a way to level up your Grow a Garden plants so you can get useful multipliers to make them even more valuable. This system was added as part of the Fall Update expansion on September ...
Gardening is a rewarding hobby, but it can also be rife with misconceptions that lead to confusion and frustration.
You’re used to seeing our favorite Minnehaha County Master Gardener, Cami Jacobson, join us on the show with garden tips and tricks. She’s even come to my house a time or two to bail me out of my ...
If you’ve ever taken a stab at home composting, you quickly discovered that compost doesn’t just happen because you tossed a few apple cores and banana peels in a bin out back. Composting is a bit ...