Upper South Regional Report

Summer's Abundance and Adventures

Songwriters notwithstanding, summer days are neither "lazy" or "easy" if you're a gardener. Just when you've got everything planted, mulched, and tended, the picking season comes on full force. Not to mention deadheading and dividing. And ohmigosh, it's...
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Sunscreens
Pacemaker III Beet

Order Garlic for Fall Planting
Make Vegetable Salads
Keep Hummingbird Containers Clean and Fresh
Learn To Pick a Ripe Melon
Make Applesauce

Red, White, and Blue, Plus Yellow and Purple, Too

Apple pie may be considered All-American, but what would life be like without French fries, potato chips, potato salad, baked potatoes, roasted potatoes, potatoes au gratin, potato soup ... well, you get the picture. Potatoes may have taken a hit in...
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New Fiskars Tools
Honeysuckle Graham Thomas

Harvest Regularly
Rejuvenate Annuals
Plan for Fall Harvest
Gather Bouquets
Enjoy Summer Berries

What Price Glory?

Don't you hate it when something goes wrong and there's nobody to blame but yourself? That's how I feel about my gardening efforts right now. Among my more serious failings is being somewhat of an obsessive/perfectionist nature. What this does to my...
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Heat-Related Illnesses
Berry Bucket

Cut Off Spring Bulb Foliage
Use Edible Flowers
Water Slowly and Deeply
Preserve Berries
Keep Roses Healthy and Vigorous

Fads and Fancies

We gardeners are just as susceptible to the latest fad as anyone else. See something cute, beautiful, unusual, or whatever catches our fancy on television, at the garden center, or in our neighbor's yard, and we want one, too. Soon momentum builds, and...
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GreenScaping
Rainwater Collection System

Keep Watering Transplants
Weed Effectively
Trim Chrysanthemums
Extend the Spring Harvest
Use Back-Saving Strategies

Greening the Garden

The public's growing interest in environmental, or "green," issues is pervasive in the media. Although I haven't checked out the tabloids yet, just about every other magazine at the grocery checkout counter is telling us what we can do to help the...
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Lawn Care Supplied
The Soil Food Web

Protect Yourself
Take Advantage of Special Plant Sales
Move Houseplants Outdoors
Prune Spring-Flowering Trees and Shrubs
Apply Mulch

The Fragrances of Spring

What a glorious spring it's been. For the most part, temperatures have topped out in the 60s and 70s, as opposed to the 80s or higher. Only a few light frosts during April. A few hard rains, but mostly they've been on the gentle side. All this has...
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Kentucky Herb Festival
Micro Suede Stretch Gloves

Tour Gardens
Welcome Hummingbirds
Plant Main-Season Vegetables
Enjoy Asparagus and Strawberries
Plant Trees

Roses All Over

Long gone are the days of quartering roses in a dedicated rose garden. Partly, this due to gardeners becoming more adventurous, but it's also because many of the modern hybrids are more adaptable and low maintenance. 'Knockout' and its kin have brought...
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The Principles of Pruning
Roses

Have Plant Coverings Ready
Make a Plant Notebook
Grow Baptisias
Get Houseplants Ready for the Outdoors
Harden Off Seedlings

Choosing The Best

It's a very dangerous time of year. Maybe not for everyone, but it certainly is for me. Just going to the grocery can get me into trouble. The discount department and home building supply stores make me break out in a cold sweat. And an actual garden...
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Create a Certified Wildlife Habitat
Euphorbia 'Diamond Frost'

Keep Planting Cool-Season Vegetables
Plant Everbearing Strawberries
Get Roses Ready for Growth
Keep Up With Lawn Care
Take Notes On Spring Bulbs

Be Fruitful

Strawberry shortcake, blueberry pancakes, raspberry anything. Life might go on if we didn't have these foods, but it sure would be a lot less pleasurable. And a lot less healthy. Berries, grapes, and other fruits have a wide range of health benefits,...
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Plant Information Online
Growing Fruits

Start Dahlias and Tuberous Begonias Indoors
Try Stepables and Win
Choose Shade-Tolerant Vegetables
Control Crabgrass with Corn Gluten
Plant Asparagus and Rhubarb

Build It and the Birds Will Come

In spite of the recent record-breaking snowstorm that barreled up the Ohio River valley, the birds are singing their spring songs and doing ... well ... what birds do as the air turns soft and warm. A friend of mine already has bluebirds setting up...
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Freeze/Frost Maps
Heat Mat

Begin Fertilizing Houseplants
Plant Cool-Season Crops
Fertilize Trees and Shrubs
Get Bare-Root Plants in the Ground ASAP
Start Warm-Season Vegetables and Herbs Indoors

Great Tastes Await

Wasn't it just the day before yesterday that I pulled the last boiling hot jar of green beans from the canner and hauled the bushel baskets of winter squash and potatoes to the cellar? Even if in reality all that was over four months ago, it's always...
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2008 Perennial Plant of the Year
Unifork

Plant Sweet Peas
Test Soil's pH
Prune Berries
Sow Delphinium Seeds
Control Spider Mites

Upper South Regional Report

Summer's Abundance and Adventures

Resources

Reminders

Red, White, and Blue, Plus Yellow and Purple, Too

Resources

Reminders

What Price Glory?

Resources

Reminders

Fads and Fancies

Resources

Reminders

Greening the Garden

Resources

Reminders

The Fragrances of Spring

Resources

Reminders

Roses All Over

Resources

Reminders

Choosing The Best

Resources

Reminders

Be Fruitful

Resources

Reminders

Build It and the Birds Will Come

Resources

Reminders

Great Tastes Await

Resources

Reminders