I’m Doug Green, a semi-retired nurseryman, and award-winning author who used to grow 1600 varieties of perennials and 600-800 varieties of annuals and vegetables in my nursery before closing it down to write full time. I’ve been growing and passing along practical gardening information for over 40 years now and I’m happy to help you […]
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Doug’s Nine Gardening Rules
I’m Doug Green, a semi-retired nurseryman, and award-winning author who used to grow 1600 varieties of perennials and 600-800 varieties of annuals and vegetables in my nursery before closing it down to write full time. I’ve been growing and passing along practical gardening information for over 40 years now and I’m happy to help you […]
Garden Report For May 2019
It was the best of times, it was the worst… Yes, it’s been one of those springs. The kind we all look at and wonder just what happened out there and why it happened to us. I’ve written about the incredible vole problem we had and this past month was mostly taken up with fixing […]
Can Red LED Lighting Control Powdery Mildew
Get Out The Red LED Christmas Lights Recent research by S. Suthaparan et al at the Dept of Plant Pathology at Cornell U, Geneva, NY has shown a rather interesting phenomenon It turns out that by exposing plants to red light from LED for as little as one hour at night can whack powdery mildew […]
Doug, Tell Us How You Really Feel
I am officially …..-off about my garden this spring. I’ve already written about the damage voles did to my garden, but as spring unfurls it turns out I was optimistic in that previous post. They Got The Evergreens They also got the evergreens. I mean… seriously. This week while working out in the front garden, […]
Plant Selection Isn’t Only For Pros. Here’s How You Can Improve Your Garden Plants Yourself
I wanted to make a few points about plant selection in your own gardens. This is not only for those few advanced gardeners but rather, it’s for every gardener out there. Better Perennials I want you to imagine you have Aquilegia in your garden. This is a self-sowing sweetheart that … well, let’s just say […]
Two Easy Ways For Feeding Water Lilies
Feeding water lilies is as easy as understanding that water lilies are greedy feeders! If you want blooms, you have to feed. There is no other way to write this other than to say that I ran an experiment to see what would happen if I didn’t feed a lily while it was in a small […]
Is This A Mistake? 85 Plants for Gardening Under Black Walnut Trees.
These are some of the plants that have been reported as growing under black walnut trees. Note that while some of these might live, they might not thrive or grow as well as they would outside of the influence of the walnut. It turns out much of this might be wrong. There’s a growing conversation […]
How You Can Grow Stunning Coleus In The Shade Garden
Coleus is usually grown for its amazing foliage and not for the flowers. Luckily, they are easy to grow, easy to start from seed or cuttings and have a wonderful range of both colored leaves as well as leaf sizes.They’re low maintenance. No picking of flowers and if they do produce them later in the […]
What Can You Compost?
What mixture to use. The bottom line is that anything that was once alive can be composted. Some things, however, are best avoided, because they attract vermin and create problems within the compost cycle. These would include meat and dairy products. While some experience is necessary, what you’ll find in practical terms, is that an […]
Mown Grass Fragrance Good For You
Oh oh! Guys everywhere are going to hear about this one as it turns out freshly mowed grass releases at least 5 different hormone fragrances – and they make you feel better. So mowing the grass is good for you. And an Australian researcher is creating a product you can spray on yourself to reduce […]
Who’s Doug Green?
Let's cut to the chase here without the usual fluff you usually read on websites about authors. The honest truth is I'm super-curious about most things and I want to know how stuff works. I'm not content to read the usual blah-blah. I want real information based on real data. (just because somebody online says it works is no reason for me to believe it) This means you're going to get the …
