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  • Planting for Fall

    Building a drought tolerant garden doesn’t necessarily start with the plants. Adding 4-6 inches of organic matter to the garden beds and then digging it in will do wonders for the roots and consequently what’s hooked up on top of them. If you have ...
  • Tomatoes that Tolerate Heat and Drought

    Low temperatures rode in on rain and clouds. The soil warmed slowly. Unusual spring weather brought about a late planting of warm weather vegetables. Plants that usually were vigorously growing by May weren’t even in the ground. Then the skies clea...

Gardeners' Quotes

"Just the other day, I read that a Japanese gentleman paid $90,000 for an enormously large form of a non-endangered stag beetle. If this keeps up, insects might become more profitable to grow than gooseberries," Eric Gressell, Insects and Gardens