Soils are commonly available either bagged or in bulk. Bulk topsoil is generally a native soil taken from the surface, screened and sold in truckloads.…
Spring Flowering Shrub Trimming – Now is the time! Spring flowering shrubs are all shrubs that flower before June 21. These include your Forsythia, Prunus…
Mulch – What is it and why is it important to you? Mulch is a topping put over the soil in shrub beds to keep…
I read a wonderful Zen book recently that glorified not the attainment of one’s goal but the path towards those goals. It went on about…
New plants and sod need to be watered regularly until they are established. Unless there is regular rainfall, this means watering 1 -2 times per…
The bulk of your planting should be done right now. Start containers in mid-May and then harden them off by bringing them in and out…
As bad as your golf game may be, most of us would rather be golfing than pulling weeds or pruning. Many people do not think…
There is nothing that I can think of that is quite as exquisite as a flower garden filled with butterflies, fluttering amongst all the multicoloured…
You don’t have to fertilize if you use compost in the garden. Adding manure to the garden IS fertilizing, just a slow release form of…
The flowering of Nanking Cherries marks the beginning of forking season. Forking is one of the best ways to remove entire root systems of weeds,…