Doug Greens Garden : gardening as if my best life depended on it
One of the things that many home gardeners use netting for is frost protection (but not insect control) but there is increasing use of fine netting in Europe that we can learn from here in our home …
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There have been a few questions about perennial flower garden bed or soil preparation and maintenance. In short, "how do we do this?" And like all things in my garden-world, there is a simple way …
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There are two different points of view on whether to cut back perennials in the fall or whether to leave them alone. Cut Them Back And Remove Them From The Garden This leaves the garden …
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I have (and need) a lot of garden hoses. So first thing in the spring, I pull the hoses out from underneath the porch and lay them out in the backyard to begin the sorting. The big black ones are …
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This little tip for staking peonies is almost so easy to do, I'm embarrassed to tell you about it. This is no fancy technique, it's simply a good way to stop flopping flowers and I've been using it …
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This fungus is the major fungal problem in our gardening world. It is the grey mouldy stuff that appears on spent blossoms and attacks wounded leaves. Think of it as Mother Nature’s shock troops - …
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