Jan 4, 2017 | Don't DO ThaT
RENEGADE GARDENER™ The lone voice of horticultural reason Don’t water your garden beds with a lawn sprinkler. Throwing the old lawn sprinkler on to water our shrubs and flowers is taking the easy way out, and you all know how I feel about that. It’s...
Jan 4, 2017 | Don't DO ThaT
RENEGADE GARDENER™ The lone voice of horticultural reason Don’t put mulch down around perennials until June 15. Short and sweet, the rule is, in the north, wait until June 15. This is one of many facets of gardening in the north that is always ignored by...
Jan 4, 2017 | Don't DO ThaT
RENEGADE GARDENER™ The lone voice of horticultural reason Don’t stomp around in, dig up plants from, or rototill garden beds, in April. What’s the big hurry? Working the soil in April does more harm than good. We’ve just received over an inch of...
Jan 4, 2017 | Don't DO ThaT
RENEGADE GARDENER™ The lone voice of horticultural reason Don’t divide and conquer. Too often we start out developing our home’s landscape by thinking too small. We cut a little circle in the front yard and put stuff in it. We take a little patch in...
Jan 4, 2017 | Don't DO ThaT
RENEGADE GARDENER™ The lone voice of horticultural reason Don’t go all nuts planting trees and shrubs this fall without submitting a soil test. I sheepishly admit that the first few years I operated my humble little residential landscaping business, I planted...
Jan 4, 2017 | Don't DO ThaT
RENEGADE GARDENER™ The lone voice of horticultural reason Don’t dig perennials and small shrubs using a shovel. If your question raised by the above statement is, “How else do you dig up plants?,” you don’t own a perennial fork. At least, that’s what I call them....
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