Every October, millions of homeowners spend a Saturday wrestling leaves into bags, hauling them to the curb, and paying (with…
If there’s one task that quietly separates the gardeners who eat home-grown garlic next summer from the ones buying the…
Every October, garden centers roll out their bulb displays and everyone rushes home to jam tulips in the ground the…
Dahlias have been showing off all summer, and if yours are anything like mine, they’re still going strong right now.…
If your bearded irises bloomed sparse and sad this past spring, or if the clump looks like a tangled mess of woody rhizomes fighting for space, September is basically begging you to fix it. This is the sweet spot window — soil’s still warm enough for roots to establish, but the brutal heat of summer…
Walk into any grocery store, hardware store, or garden center right now and you’ll hit a wall of mums. Rust, burgundy, gold, that weird lavender one nobody asks for but everyone buys anyway. It’s basically the unofficial start of fall decorating season, even though it’s still technically summer and the AC bill proves it. But…
If you’ve walked past your hydrangea lately and thought “wait, did my blue mophead just turn into a lime popsicle,” you’re not losing it. This happens every year around this time, and it trips people up because it looks like something’s gone wrong. It hasn’t. Your hydrangea is just doing what hydrangeas do when summer…
If your lawn looks like it’s been through a war this summer — thin patches, bald spots where the dog runs laps, that one corner that never recovered from July’s heat — late August through mid-September is your window to fix it. Not October. Not “whenever I get around to it.” Right now, while the…
You go out to check on your tomatoes after a good soaking rain, feeling optimistic, and there it is: another perfect Cherokee Purple split wide open like it lost an argument. It’s not just you. Late August is prime cracking season, and the culprit is almost always a boring, fixable water problem rather than some…
Yes, it’s still technically summer. Yes, it’s still hot enough to make you question your life choices every time you go check the mailbox. But if you’ve got a coleus, a geranium, or a begonia that’s been putting on a show all season, now is exactly the time to start thinking about its exit strategy.…
