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    Prune That Troublesome Limb Out of Your Tree!
    Tisa Watts
    • Feb 3
    • 3 min

    Prune That Troublesome Limb Out of Your Tree!

    How to prune a branch off a tree correctly.
    Turning Turf Into Veggies and Native Plants!
    Tisa Watts
    • May 15, 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...
    EASY Indoor Seed Starting!
    Tisa Watts
    • Apr 22, 2020
    • 0 min

    EASY Indoor Seed Starting!

    Essential Tools & Materials for New Gardeners
    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! *...
    Build a (Vegetable) Bed
    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...
    Get Outside While the Getting Is Good!
    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...
    SEEKING SEEDS & SEEDLINGS!
    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 ...
    Perform or perish / An Oakland gardener prefers tough love to spoiling her plants
    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...
    Native Bees, Honeybees, and Wasps – Oh My!
    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...
    Why Not Compost?
    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...
    State of the Prairie (July 2019)
    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...
    Neonics, greenhouse plants, and pollinators
    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)...
    Stumped by "stump pruning"
    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...

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