Walk into any nursery or gardening section on the Central Coast right now and you will be greeted with what appears to bags filled with sticks. These are the much anticipated ‘bare root’ roses that have hit out stores in time for June planting so let’s get them in! Roses have been on earth for […]

Q: We planted a new vegetable garden with a lot of different vegetable seeds. We killed the existing lawn grass by scraping the plants off, and we did some digging to loosen the soil. We covered the garden with 2 to 4 inches of bark mulch from the city to keep out the weeds. The […]

Saturdays — June 12th, 19th, and 26th from 10am to 12pm Introduction to Sustainable Gardening is a FREE, online three-part workshop series designed to help you transform your backyard into a thriving, resilient garden. Learn what plants are adapted to San Francisco’s unique coastal climate and grow without the need for toxic pesticides or […]

Here we are in June already. I am at a loss as to figure out why the winter months of January and February seem to drag on and then comes May and June and boom! Just like that we are into summer. Allow me to quote my favorite garden author Gertrude Jekyll (1843 – 1932) […]

Here is some timely garden advice from now retired James Quinn, horticultural specialist. Vegetables Many gardeners are in a hurry to plant tomatoes, but if you missed the early planting of early May, don’t despair, they will do very well planted all the way until the end of June. Following getting established, around 7-10 days, […]

It’s been a cool spring, so some gardening chore times have been altered a bit. The ground is finally warm enough to plant caladium bulbs, for example. It’s also finally time to plant the warm-season grasses, Bermuda, buffalo and other native grasses by seed. Summer annual color can go in now, as we discussed in […]

A successful night at the annual New Zealand Parks Awards for Auckland Council was topped off with Community Ranger Glenn Browne taking out the Parks Person of the Year.   “Glenn has played a massive role this year with his Ranger Glenn persona and the engagement with young people has been huge,” says Mark Bowater, […]

Audrey Gillespie, Special to the Reporter-News Published 5:00 p.m. CT May 23, 2021 CLOSE This Saturday, May 29, from 9 a.m. until noon, the Taylor County Extension Office on the Expo Fairgrounds is the place to be for the Big Country Master Gardener Association’s “Welcome to our Back Yard” workshop. Register for this free event […]

In accordance with the spring season, two senior living communities are cultivating their green thumbs for the greater good.  Cornwall Manor Retirement Community of Cornwall, PA, has partnered with the Rodale Institute, a global leader in organic agriculture, to create the Cornwall Manor Rodale Institute Trailside Organic Farm: a certified organic vegetable farm led by […]

By now, you probably know what kind of soil you have out there in your “back 40.” If planting that rose bush brought up wads of gummy goo, you know to call it clay. If instead you scooped up gritty particles that didn’t clump together, you have the other extreme, a sand. Both extremes in […]