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CGS Winter Sowing with Plastic Milk Jugs

MATERIALS Clean, dry, and empty gallon-size milk, vinegar, etc. jugs. Make sure jugs are translucent – light needs to pass through....

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...

Prune That Troublesome Limb Out of Your Tree!

How to prune a branch off a tree correctly.

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!

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

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!

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!

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

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!

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?

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)

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

I recently received a question about mail-order plants and the widespread use of insecticides commonly called “neonics” (neonicotinoids)...

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...