Finally! I can’t tell you how long I have been wanting to try my hand at canning something. I started to get the urge last summer when I had tons of tomatoes and was running out of space in my tiny freezer. I looked into classes at the Parks & Recreation Dept., but they were [...]

Paperwhites make lovely, inexpensive gifts during the holiday season. They can be that perfect hostess gift or coworker gift. Although most gardeners would be thrilled with just a bag of bulbs, sometimes you want to dress them up a bit. One of my favorite ways is to preplant them in a decorated terra cotta pot. [...]

Gardener’s hands take a lot of abuse. And if you are a gardener like me who likes to forgo gloves, those fingers can feel like sandpaper. One of my favorite ways to combat this problem has always been a sugar scrub. The sugar helps exfoliate all the rough skin and the carrier oil helps lock [...]

My corn now stands about 5 feet tall and the tassel at the top has begun to open up fully. The sticky silk dangles from the emerging ears below. It seems to be doing what it should be doing. Yet, I worry. Will the corn actually pollinate on its own? I heard from so many [...]

I recently taught a class on planning a cutting garden and one of the suggestions for having flowers all year long was to force spring blooming shrubs into bloom. I’ve always loved the delicate blossoms of peaches, cherries and apricots, but growing up, my father would have killed us if we cut a branch off [...]