Here in Cincinnati, it’s been a very hot ten days since the last rain. Most vegetable and annual flowering plants, and some perennials, need at least an inch of water a week. There’s no rain in the forecast for the next few days, so it’s time to water! I’ve been hand watering my containers and [...]

During a recent visit to my brother’s house, he confessed that he might have killed some new Salvia ‘May Night’ plants that he had transplanted to the garden a few weeks before. Despite carefully burying the roots and watering the plants in, the plants had slowly turned brown. I took a look, and the plants [...]