If you missed last night’s meeting of the Silver Spring Garden Club, here are the highlights of a fun talk by Dave Marciniak on the “10 Landscape & Garden Myths – Busted.” Club president Kathy Jentz had heard Dave (a…
Behnkes is providing tool sharpening on weekends through February 21, 2016! (Limit 2 per customer, please. This is popular and we want to avoid lines.) It’s first come, first served and doesn’t include lawn-mower blades or saws. COST: Suggested donation of…
Now’s the time for us get our garden recordkeeping in order from the prior season, and maybe get our system set up for the next. That’s because we’re bored and going nuts with cabin fever; plus, we could be way…
Last year’s mild winter is but a memory, and this week’s Arctic weather has taught us to get serious about snow and ice, especially how to get rid of it. Turns out, we’re applying a whole lot of the…
Winter brings holidays, cold weather, and sore backs. One of the most common causes of low back strains in the winter is poor mechanics while shoveling snow. Snow shoveling is particularly stressful for the lower back for several reasons. The…
This time of year you see a lot of “eco-friendly” gardening advice about dead leaves and I wholeheartedly endorse the bottom line – that it’s crazy to send them off to the local landfill, where they take up space and…
Fall is my favorite time to putter in the garden – adding plants, rearranging the ones I already have – but there are also tasks that really need to be done now. And I’m not just talking about raking, though…
Last week we looked at designers’ thoughts on high-maintenance gardens so as promised, this week we’re covering their ideas about gardening with LESS work, thankyouverymuch. First Mary Gray, a garden designer in Northern Virginia, who starts by ranting about this…
Our woody plants buyer Miri Talabac does a bang-up job of demonstrating planting of a tree (a Black Gum) in her new video, now on Youtube – How to Plant a Tree on Youtube. Watch it on Youtube or at…
If warm temperatures have you planting early, you always run the risk of having a few nights when the temperatures approach or dip below freezing. If that is the case, we offer the following suggestions. This is weather as we…
The gardening season is ON, which means we’re all busy weeding. Here are some of my favorite ways to reduce the job.. Remove the weeds as soon as you see them. If you don’t, they’ll accumulate and possibly become an…
We read everywhere that now is the perfect time to plan changes to our gardens for the coming season, and I’m doing plenty of that. But it’s not just sorting through seed catalogs, ya know. I use the time to…