Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and many retailers who normally don’t feature gardening products have potted flowering plants and other quasi-gardening gifts prominently displayed. I thought I’d take the opposite tack and share with you my favorite non-gardening garden “thingies.” Most of them don’t qualify as tools. Some of them, quite frankly, would look like [...] Read more…

Reading Carol’s description of her plant cataloging project got me thinking about my own efforts to organize my records. When I first started gardening, I used some large index cards to catalog all my plants. I entered the same info Carol did, but didn’t include the plant tags. On the back of each card I [...] Read more…

Many gardening books for children take what I think of as the art project approach: here’s what you need, this is what you do, isn’t that cute?, now show it to Grandma. Very few books out there take children–or a child’s interest in gardening–seriously. I prefer to regard children as apprentice gardeners, gradually acquiring more skills [...] Read more…

WHETHER your grounds are large or small, the right tools and equipment can speed routine tasks and help you to successful gardening.

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We have had a garden every year since we were married. It wasn’t until last year though that we had a very productive garden. Last spring we built raised beds and tried our hand at Read more

Shopping for the gardeners on your gift list can be frustrating this time of year because most garden centers switch to Christmas d cor. So think about giving gift certificates or doing a bit of online shopping. It’s not too late to shop the Read more

A Web site designed to help people rent out their stuff is hoping to do well as the economy has more people looking for ways to save and make cash. The Web site is called Zilok . Even though it sounds like the name of an ancient warrior, it’s Read more

The United Nations is sending a disaster assessment team to Papua New Guinea after severe sea swells hit the northern shoreline, affecting up to 60,000 people, according to government estimates. The possibility of water-borne disease is one of the Read more