Three Tools Do So Much!
I spent much of Summer 2019 with my face about 18 inches above the ground. Most of the time, I was installing transplants of native...
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Tisa Watts
- Feb 3
- 3 min
Prune That Troublesome Limb Out of Your Tree!
How to prune a branch off a tree correctly.
Tisa Watts
- May 14, 2020
- 2 min
Turning Turf Into Veggies and Native Plants!
How to Turn Old Lawn Into a New Garden This garden belongs to Joanne S. Dole, an experienced organic gardener who teaches at the Columbus...
Tisa Watts
- Apr 22, 2020
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Tisa Watts
- Apr 22, 2020
- 1 min
Essential Tools & Materials for New Gardeners
NEW GARDENER Buy/Share/Rent LIST OF ESSENTIAL TOOLS & MATERIALS * starred items are the ONLY essential tools you need to get started! *...
Tisa Watts
- Apr 17, 2020
- 3 min
Build a (Vegetable) Bed
Start building your vegetable bed NOW! Building a great vegetable garden begins with the initial idea to DO IT. In fact, you can grow...
Tisa Watts
- Apr 3, 2020
- 2 min
Get Outside While the Getting Is Good!
April 3, 2020 Just when you think winter in Ohio will NEVER end, along comes a day like today. Sunny, warm, and just dry enough to turn...
Tisa Watts
- Mar 30, 2020
- 2 min
SEEKING SEEDS & SEEDLINGS!
Seeds and veggie transplants have been difficult to obtain in some areas this spring. Here are ideas to help you get your garden started ...
Tisa Watts
- Mar 16, 2020
- 3 min
Perform or perish / An Oakland gardener prefers tough love to spoiling her plants
Written by Tisa Watts, this piece was originally publish January 25, 2006 in the San Francisco (CA) Chronicle. Recently my next-door...
Tisa Watts
- Mar 16, 2020
- 3 min
Native Bees, Honeybees, and Wasps – Oh My!
Everyone knows the woes of honeybees these days, but do you know about our native bees? In North America, we are home to over 4000...
Tisa Watts
- Mar 16, 2020
- 2 min
Why Not Compost?
You know you want to. You know you should. But are you going to screw up and make a big stinky mess? Learning to compost discarded plant...
Tisa Watts
- Jul 21, 2019
- 2 min
State of the Prairie (July 2019)
As many of you know (and may have seen), I’ve been hard at work building a prairie in our front yard. We’re blessed with a big suburban...
Tisa Watts
- Mar 4, 2019
- 2 min
Neonics, greenhouse plants, and pollinators
I recently received a question about mail-order plants and the widespread use of insecticides commonly called “neonics” (neonicotinoids)...
Tisa Watts
- Mar 4, 2019
- 1 min
Stumped by "stump pruning"
This is a great example of what happens after a tree is “stump pruned.” For some reason (unresolved hostility, perhaps?), a...