You’ve grown a bit bored with coneflowers, black-eyed Susans and other ordinary perennials in your landscape. Why not create a […]
Author: Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp award-winning garden writer, editor, and speaker. (She speaks at libraries, garden clubs, public gardens, home and garden shows, Master Gardener groups, and horticulture industry events.) Known as a hortiholic, she frequently says her eyes are too big for her yard. She blogs at hoosiergardener.com.
26 Best Plants for a Bog Garden
Your bog garden has been dug, filled with water, and the growing medium is settling in. Or maybe you want […]
How to Winterize Your Raised Garden Bed
Just because the growing season is over doesn’t mean the work with your raised garden bed is over, too. From […]
How to Get Rid of Yellow Jackets in Your Yard
First off, be careful. Be very careful when getting rid of yellow jackets in your yard. The female yellow jacket […]
23 Plants For Rock Gardens
Rock gardens are versatile, vibrant, and visually pleasing. You can have a rock garden about anywhere with a bit of […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Raised Bed Gardening
For beginners – or really about any gardener – one way to get close to the soil is to raise […]
How to Plant Grass Seed on a Slope
You love the way your landscape slopes down to the street, and you dream of the day a green lawn […]
Is Weed and Feed Bad for Your Lawn?
Talk about a loaded question. Whether weed and feed is bad or good for your lawn depends on several factors. […]
6 Ways to Improve Drainage in Your Vegetable Garden
Overnight, your vegetable garden received a long, hard rain and half of it is waterlogged this morning. Is there anything […]
Five Vegetables That Thrive in a Fall Garden
Just because it’s fall doesn’t mean the food growing season has ended. In fact, there are several leafy green vegetables […]