Category: Tips and Help

Do you know how to kill gnats in the soil or do they keep annoying you repeatedly and destroying your houseplants? Fungus gnats or soil gnats are some of the …

One of the most loved crops in any garden is the onion being used in hundreds of dishes in any kitchen; but how deep do you plant onion sets. Spring …

Dahlias are some of the most beautiful flowers to display but are difficult to overwinter; can you leave dahlias in the ground over winter. Dahlias are every gardener’s dream!  They …

Yellow jackets and honeybees are not friends because one is an enemy of the other, do yellow jackets kill honeybees, or do we just misinterpret them? For new beekeepers, it …

Many people are not too familiar with their birth month flowers, for example, what is April’s birth flower? Every month has a flower that represents some characteristics of people born …

Petunias are among the most popular summer bedding plants but are petunias annuals or perennials? These compact, bushy petunia plants are perfect for growing in beds and borders.  The trailing …

You can smell a skunk before you see it because the odor that it expels is unpleasant, but how can you scare skunks away without getting sprayed? If you are …

So with your okra plant is thriving and starting to flower, but when is okra ready to pick, and how do you harvest it? Let’s learn a few things about …

When to plant astilbe? Astilbes are versatile perennial flowers blooming from early summer to the fall. These plants have long blooming plume-like flowers in stunning colors ranging from pink, red, deep …

Like regular potatoes, sweet potatoes are starchy tubers; do you know how many sweet potatoes per plant are likely to grow? In less than 100 to 140 days, you can …