I believe there are rabbits and possums – and who knows what else – living under my garden shed. I have just caught my fifth bunny this season. I’ve also caught five possums and a skunk. This is without using any kind of bait in my catch-and-release Havahart trap, set up right next to the [...]

Last year at this time, my daughter decided that she had outgrown her swing set. We listed the swing set on Craig’s list, and a young family came out, dismantled the set and took it away. I was ecstatic – a new place to plant stuff! I decided to use the space to grow things [...]

I’m delighted that we’ve had a long, soaking rain the past few days – we really needed it! Photo of Bristol Black Raspberries from Stark Bros. Nursery As luck would have it, some bare-root ‘Bristol’ black raspberry bushes that I ordered (from Stark Bro’s Nursery, www.starkbros.com) arrived and needed to be planted right away. I [...]

After a week spent on other pursuits, I finally got out into the garden this weekend. Perfect, gorgeous weather! Not too cold, not too hot, sunny and dry – with emphasis on the dry. It’s been a couple of weeks since we’ve had rain in the greater Cincinnati area. The plants that I added or [...]

I’ve been visiting my dad in Arizona for the past few days. While travelling there, we stopped along the roadside at a Joshua tree forest. This is nothing like a typical Midwest forest! Like much of the Southwest desert country, from the road you may not see much. Everything looks dry and tan colored. You [...]

We’ve been having frost for a few weeks now. Contrary to common belief, the first frost doesn’t end the growing season for many vegetables – and it even helps to sweeten crops such as cabbages, carrots and parsnips. So what are you likely to find in the fall garden? Cabbage relatives like broccoli, Brussels sprouts [...]

I spent some time last week mowing my neighbor’s lawns – and plan to do some more this week. It’s not that I don’t have enough to keep me busy in my own landscape. But I don’t have any really big trees in my yard, and they do. All those fallen leaves are a virtual [...]