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Keeper of the Ivy
Wrigley Field, Chicago, Keeper of the Ivy: Miguel Villasenor.
Plant a Row for the Hungry
Plant a Row for the Hungry
September Garden Questions and Answers
September garden questions and answers include: algerian ivy, rats and snails; sweet peas; nitrate and other forms of fertilizers, including fish emulsion.
Summer Perk Up
Perk up your late summer garden by planting second crops of both flowers and vegetables. You can also weed, mulch, prune, deadhead and more to keep your garden looking tidy.
Supporting Tomato Plants With Stakes, Cages, Ladders and Spiral Stakes
Supporting sprawling tomato plants may include galvanized wire cages, collapsible cages, tomato ladders and tomato spirals.
June Garden Questions and Answers
Removing a tree, getting rid of unwanted ivy, unhealthy redwood trees.
Year of the Melon
National Garden Bureau names 2005 the Year of the Melon. Includes watermelon, cantaloupe, crenshaw, and honeydew.
Year of the Sweet Pea
National Garden Bureau names 2005 the Year of the Sweet Pea.
Mosquitoes in Your Garden
Mosquito sources; West Nile virus; garden ponds, bird baths, overturned saucers, etc.
Felder's Gardening Part 2
Gardening according to Felder Rushing includes bottle trees, tire planters and even pink flamingoes.
Gardening, According to Felder (Part 1)
Planting instructions, according to Felder Rushing from Jackson, Mississippi. Dig hole, insert plant, green side up.
Wet Weather Gardening
Wet weather gardening chores include: spreading compost/mulch throughout the garden, pruning, raking, greening up your lawn.
All American Flowers 2005
All America Selections flower winners for 2005. These include: :Magellan Coral" zinnia from Goldsmith Seeds in Gilroy, California; "First Kiss Blueberry" vinca; "Arizona Sun" gaillardia.
All American Vegetables 2005
All America Selections 2005 vegetable winners include "Sugary" tomato, "Fairy Tale" eggplant and "Bonbon" winter squash. AAS flower winners will be reviewed in my next column.
Winter Veggies
Your friends back East will hate you for it, but you cantake advantage of our mild winter, and plant all types of vegetables through the cold season. Everything from carrots and cauliflower to lettuce, radishes, beans and more.
Illegal Poppies
Illegal opium poppies (Papaver somniferum)are worth the risk from the DEA.
Garden Questions and Answers
Garden questions and answers. Tomatoes, white flies, and bacterial canker on apricot trees.
Insect Controls
Insect controls for the garden. Biological controls, such as B.t. Insecticidal soaps and horticultural oils.
Growing Tomato Plants at Home: Common Problems and Solutions
Rotating tomato crops, yellow leaves on tomato plants, and odd-shaped fruit. Garden questions and answers provided.
Butterfly Gardening
How to attract butterflies to your garden: what plants will draw butterflies. Buddleia, lantana, alyssum and many others.
Human Urine and Other Animal Deterrents
Human urine as a deer repellant; beer as fertilizer, and what will grow under acid-loving pine trees.
Vacation Gardening
Vacation Gardening Guide: what to do to prepare your garden while you're on vacation.
Year of the Pea
Year of the Pea, according to the National Garden Bureau
Year of the Dianthus
Year of the Dianthus presented by the National Garden Bureau
P. Allen Smith, Garden Color, Part 2
P. Allen Smith, Color in the Garden, part 2
P. Allen Smith: Garden Color Part 1
P. Allen Smith, Color in the Garden, part 1
Christmas Trees
Caring for Christmas Trees
Dividing Perennials
Don't have separation anxiety, divide your perennials. Ornamental grasses, lilies, dahlias, delphinium, daisies and more can be divided for free plants.
Autumn Plants
Fall means a second gardening seasons for California gardeners. Chrysanthemums, salvias, scabiosa, daisies, coleus and more.
September Questions and Answers
Meyer lemon, deodora tree, kiwi plants.
Saving Water in the Garden
Saving Water in the Garden. Starts with drip irrigation systems, but also includes so-called drip hybrids. This includes bubblers and micro-spray heads.
Naked Ladies -- the Flower Bulb
Naked Ladies -- the flower bulb not real naked ladies. Sorry to disappoint, but these naked ladies are in the amaryllis bulb family, and bloom large pink flowers on naked stems in the middle of summer.
June Garden Questions & Answers
June Garden Questions & Answers: whiteflies, epsom salt rose fertilizer recipe, ant control.
Vines
Vines include jasmine, honeysuckle, clematis, wisteria, passion vine and more!
Soil Rejuvenation
Soil Rejuvenation: Your Plants and Flowers Will Thank You For It! Improve old garden dirt by adding soil amendments, such as peat moss, redwood soil conditioner, organic compost, gypsum, milorganite, etc.
Making the Most of Your Visit to the Nursery
Making the Most Out of Your Visit to the Garden Center: Avoid shopping on weekends, instead go on weekdays or even during the dinner hour. You'll not only get a better selection of particularly bedding plants and already-started transplants, but also get better service and the help should even have time to answer your questions.
Year of the Bean
Beans. From pole beans to snap beans, to green shelling and dried beans.
Year of the Poppy
Year of the Poppy. From California poppies, the state flower, to Oriental poppies, Flanders poppies and more.
February Garden Questions and Answers
February Garden Questions and Answers include ant recipe using boric acid to rid your home of ants, and using vinegar to neutralize salt build-up in houseplants.
Garden Trends in 2003
Garden Trends in 2003 include flowers of all sorts, bold colors, fancy containers, garden trains and other moving objects in the garden.
All American Vegetables for 2003
All American Vegetables for 2003 include a summer squash, a melon, herb and ornamental grass. There's also two more flowers: a gaillardia and eustoma.
All American Flowers for 2003
All Americans for 2003. AAS flower winners include: two petunias, rudbeckia, vinca rosea, dianthus and a carnation.
Seattle Garden Tour Part 2
Seattle Garden Tour Part 2. Garden Writers Association visits the Bellevue Botanical Garden and Washington Park.
Seattle Garden Tour, Part 1
Seattle Garden Tour Part 1. More than 500 garden communicators from across North America descended upon the Emerald City for five days of glorious garden tours. Included a visit to Heronswood Nursery.
Move Over New England, California Has Fall Leaf Color, Too
Move Over New England, California Has Fall Leaf Color, Too. Make use of your fallen leaves by composting them.
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Tiptoe through the tulips. It's not too late to plant spring-blooming bulbs, including tulips. Tips on how to stagger your plantings, so you'll have color for several months.
October Garden Questions and Answers
October Garden Questions and Answers. Includes tomatoes not setting fruit, tomato plants turning brown and drying up and spraying to get rid of oxalis and other weeds.
Fall/Winter Vegetables
Fall/Winter Vegetables can be planted now. Includes row crops like lettuce, spinach, carrots, cauliflower, beans, cabbage, kale and more.
September Garden Question & Answers
September Garden Questions and Answers. Use of epsom salts as fertilizer, lack of tangerines this season, preventing rust on snapdragons.
Mugsy: A Dog's Dog
Mugsy: A Dog's Dog. He could make lemonade out of lemons. He didn't let health problems and blindness keep him down.
Controlling Fire Around Your House
Controlling fire around your house. Three R's: remove fuel, reduce fuel and replace fire hazardous plants.
Gardening Itch: Poison Oak
Poison oak. How to identify the stuff, how to get rid of it.
Super Rose Fertilizer Recipe
Super rose fertilizer recipe, dealing with powdery mildew on roses, and curing sunburned sago palms.
Ugh! Dealing with Snails
Ugh! Dealing with Snails includes baiting with a variety of products, copper tape, wood ashes and even beer.
June Garden Questions and Answers
Dealing with volunteer suckers, types of California poppies and sunflowers.
Martha Stewart: Love or Hate Her
Martha Stewart: Love Her or Hate Her. Garden writers debate whether she and her empire is good for the garden industry.
Readers React to Childhood Garden Memories
Readers React to Childhood Garden Memories. Includes a child's very own rose bush, growing vegetables and canning them, growing watermelon where they're not supposed to be able to grow.
Childhood Memories of Grandma
Childhood Memories of Grandma's Garden. Coral bells, thorny lemon tree, picking California golden poppies.
Mickey Mouse Gardens: PART 2.
Mickey Mouse Gardens: PART 2. Gardens of Orlando, Florida include Henry Leu Gardens and Bok Towers, which the Garden Writers Association of America visited.
Mickey Mouse Gardens: PART 1.
Mickey Mouse Gardens PART 1: The Gardens at Disney's EPCOT Center in Orlando, Florida. Garden Writers Association of America visits EPCOT.
March Garden Q and A
March Garden Questions & Answers. Preventing deer from eating your garden, spraying to eliminate wild blackberries, and overwatering lavender.
Garden Shows: A Magic Door to Spring
Garden Shows: A Magic Door to Spring. Visit the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show.
February Questions Answers
February Garden Questions & Answers. Getting rid of mistletoe in trees, spraying against ants and aphids in artichokes, getting onions to grow into bulbs rather than going to seed.
Color My Bare Garden
Instant color for your winter garden. Includes cyclamen, primula, primroses, pansies, violas, cineraria and more.
January Garden Questions and Answers
January Garden Questions and Answers.
Vegetable Winners for 2002
All-America Selections vegetable winners for 2002. Basil, cucumber, winter squash and two pumpkins.
Flower Winners for 2002
All-America Selections Award winners for 2002 include these flowers: cleome, petunias, ornamental pepper, rudbeckia, vinca rosea, pansy and geraniums.
Sparkler Cleome Wins Award
Goldsmith Seeds' Sparkler cleome wins 2002 All America Selections Award. This is a unique cleome about 3 to 4 feet in size.
Houseplants: Real or Fake?
Houseplants: Real or Fake? New-age houseplants are a far cry from the artificial rubber plants that Grandma used to have! Choose from ficus trees to floral arrangements.
December Questions and Answers
Dogs and brown spots in the lawn; how to get wisteria to bloom and diseases on impatiens.
Asian Vegetables for Winter
Fast-growing Asian vegetables can be planted during winter in our mild climate. Choose from bok choi, pak choi, Chinese cabbage, mizuna and mibuna, mustard spinach (komatsuna), Chinese mustard and flowering white cabbage (choy sum).
Award-winning Roses for 2002
Award-winning roses for 2002. All-America Rose Selections honors Love & Peace and Starry Night.
Gardening Gifts
Gardening Gifts for Christmas include: Yardshark gardening tools, Waterquick, Organic Labs products, Dramm water wands, Granny's Garden Socks.
November Garden Questions and Answers
November Garden Questions and Answers: Using fireplace ashes in your garden, beans without pods and a Raywood ash die off.
Bare-Root Season is Here
Bare-Root fruit trees, nut trees, some shade trees, grapes, raspberries, blackberries and more can be planted during our mild-winter garden season in California
Gilroy Garlic!
Gilroy Garlic. Easy-to-grow, drought-tolerant and companion plant. Vampires will stay away, too.
Cover Crops Rediscovered
Cover crops Rediscovered. Fava beans, annual rye grass, oats, barley and clovers can all act as natural cover crops over the winter. Besides improving soil, they can control erosion, attract pollinating insects and reduce weeds.,Cover crops Rediscovered. Fava beans, annual rye grass, oats, barley and clovers can all act as natural cover crops over the winter. Besides improving soil, they can control erosion, attract pollinating insects and reduce weeds.
Fall Garden Chores
Fall garden chores. Plants new trees, shrubs, flowers, vegetables and even lawns. Divide perennials, plant trees for autumn color and more!
October Questions & Answers
October garden questions and answers. Crape myrtles, hollyhocks and hydroseeding lawns.
Victory Gardens
Victory Gardens help show America's resolve and show patriotism not witnessed since World War II. Time to plant many row crops, including lettuce, cabbage, spinach, kale, Asian vegetables, garlic, artichokes, asparagus and more.
Frost Protection
Frost Protection for Plants
Lawns: Seed vs. Sod
Lawns: Seed vs. sod. Fall is the perfect time to get a new lawn. Whether it's seed or sod, soil preparation is a key.
September Garden Questions & Answers
September Garden Questions & Answers include preventing pets from urinating on lawns, what to do; how to prepare garden soil and dealing with fungus diseases on apples.
Season Extenders
Extend your garden season. Water, fertilize and deadhead flowers. Plant anew with fall bedding plants, such as pansies, violas, snapdragons and spring-blooming bulbs.
Amazing Circus Trees part 2
Amazing Circus Trees part 2.
Amazing Circus Trees part 1
Amazing Circus Trees part 1. Grafted in the 1920s, these living trees have been featured in Life magazine, Ripley's Believe It or Not and the Guinness Book of World Records.
August Questions and Answers
August Garden Questions and Answers. Poisonous plants, poison oak and gardenias.
Favorite Cut Flowers
Favorite Cut Flowers and how to make them last longer indoors.
Composting Made Easy
Compost Happens. Get rid of garden debris and kitchen scraps, and make wonderful, fertile compost for your garden.
Natural Pest Controls
Natural, Organic Pest Controls
Controlling Weeds -- Naturally
Natural Weed Control
July Garden Questions and Answers
July Garden Questions and Answers. Includes how to get rid of ants on artichokes, detering grasshoppers and a good gardening book for western gardeners.
Spire Flowers: Growing Up
Spire Flowers: Flowers that grow taller, more vertically are great for use as background plantings or to add contrast to any garden.,Spire Flowers: Flowers that grow taller, more vertically are great for use as background plantings or to add contrast to any garden.
Water Conservation
Water Conservation in the Garden
Energy Conservation Landscaping
Saving Energy in Your Garden.
June Garden Questions & Answers
June Garden Questions & Answers. Includes weed-killing recipe utilizing sulphate of ammonia fertilizer, recommended pink roses and crape myrtles.
Gardening Made Simple
Gardening Made Simple includes tips on fertilizing, weeding, watering, pruning and more. All given during a talk at the 8th Annual Epcot Flower & Garden Festival in Orlando, Florida.
Color Therapy
Color Therapy: flower colors can create certain moods in the garden
Epcot Is Coming Up Flowers
Epcot Flower & Garden Festival,Epcot Flower & Garden Festival
May Questions and Answers
May Garden Questions and Answers
Controlling Weeds - Naturally
Natural control of weeds
Profusion White Zinnia
Profusion White Zinnia
Plant Zones and Microclimates
Plant Zones and Microclimates,Plant Zones and Microclimates,Plant Zones and Microclimates,Plant Zones and Microclimates
Basic Black in the Garden
Basic Black in the Garden
Growing Melons: Techniques for Cooler Climates, Planting, and Choosing Tasty Varieties
Watermelons, cantaloupes, honeydew, etc, can be grown in cooler climates. Here are some tips for protecting against cold weather, planting melons, and choosing delicious varieties.
April Garden Questions and Answers
April Garden Questions and Answers
Weeding for Your Health
Weeding for Your Health.
Biblical Passion Flowers
Biblical Passion Flowers
The Great Tomato Race
The Great Tomato Race
March Gardening Questions and Answers,March Gardening Questions and Answers
March Garden Questions and Answers
Year of the Bachelor Button
Year of the Bachelor Button
Year of the Basil
Year of the Basil
Garden Zones and Microclimates
Garden Zones and Microclimates
Top 10 Garden List
Top 10 List of steps to a beautiful and bountiful garden
Turnips Get No Respect,Turnips Get No Respect
Turnips Get No Respect,Turnips Get No Respect
Lilacs: Sweet Fragrance in Spring
Lilacs: Sweet Fragrance in Spring
How Untidy Bushes Did $4,500 Damage to My Car!
Pruning is necessary!
Flowering Trees
Flowering Trees mean the end of winter and beginning of spring
Childhood Gardens
Childhood Gardens. Remembering my grandma's garden with coral bells, California golden poppies and that evil lemon tree with the nasty thorns!
February Questions and Answers
February Questions and Answers.
Winter Annuals
Winter Annuals
Proper "Pea"-caution
Garden Peas
Garden Ornaments
Garden Ornaments including accents, boulderism.
Garden Questions and Answers
Garden Questions and Answers
Philadelphia Gardens: Part 2 Longwood Gardens
Philadelphia Gardens Part 2: Longwood Gardens
Philadelphia Gardens: Part 1
Philadephia Gardens: Part 1
Mower Racing: A New Mowllennium Sport
Mower Racing: A New Mowllennium sport
Christmas Gifts for Gardeners
Christmas Gifts for Gardeners
November: Garden Questions and Answers
November: Garden Questions and Answers
Turkey Plants: Don't Plant These!
Turkey Plants! You don't want to plant these.
All America Selections Vegetable Winners for 2001
All America Selections Vegetable Winners for 2001
All America Selections' Flower Winners for 2001
All America Selections' Flower Winners for 2001.
Brand New Gardens
Brand New Gardens
October Garden Questions & Answers
October garden questions and answers
Sure Signs of Fall
Signs of Fall: Fall gardening Chores
Rose Hips
Rose Hips: Uses of Rose Hips in the Fall
Garden Envy
Garden Envy: Few Gardens Can Look Like the Ones in Magazines
September Questions & Answers
Garden Questions and Answers for September
Feng Shui in Your Garden
Feng Shui in Your Garden. The Chinese art of feng shui.
All-American Rose Winners for 2001
All-American Rose Winners for 2001
Late Summer Chores
Late Summer Garden Chores
Questions/Answers for August
Garden questions and answers for August
Garden Adages/Myths
Garden Adages/Myths
Fragrant Flowers
Fragrant Flowers
Crape Mrytles: Summer Show Stoppers
Crape Myrtles: Showy Summer Performer
Tacky Garden Contest
Tacky Garden Contest
Questions and Answers for July
Garden questions and answers for July, 2000.
Saving Water with New Irrigation Methods
Saving water with new irrigation methods
Deadheading Flowers
Deadheading Flowers, It's Good for Them!
Container Tomatoes - How to Grow Large and Small Varieties in a Boxed Garden
Container Tomatoes; Growing Tomatoes in Containers
Garden Questions & Answers for June
Garden Questions & Answers for June
Top 10 Lawns
Top 10 Lawns
Gardening Tips 101
Gardening Tips 101
Eggplants: Summer Wonders
Eggplants: Summer Wonders
New Flowers from Goldsmith Seeds
New Flowers from Goldsmith Seeds
Garden Questions & Answers
Garden Questions and Answers
Poisons in the Garden
Poisons in the Garden
Year of the Zinnia
Year of the Zinnia, as honored by the National Garden Bureau
Year of the Sweet Corn
Year of the Sweet Corn
New Flower Releases from Goldsmith Seeds
New Flower Releases from Goldsmith Seeds
Question & Answers for April
Garden Questions & Answers for April
Violas: "Weeds" for the Garden
Violas: "Weeds" of the Garden
Allergy Season: Sprigtibe Again
Allergy Season: Hay Fever Time
New Millennium Vegetables
New Millennium Vegetables
Questions & Answers
Garden Questions & Answers
Totally Tomatoes!
Tomatoes: How to Grow
When Life Hands You Lemons: Tribute to a Departed Friend
Tribute to a Departed Friend: When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemonade. In dedication to Goldsmith Seeds, Inc., colleague, George "Del" Hovey.
Seattle/Northwest Flower & Garden Show
Seattle: Northwest Flower & Garden Show
The Color Purple (in Flowers and Plants, That Is)
The Color Purple (in Flowers and Plants, That is)
Garden Questions and Answers
Garden Question-and-Answer Time
Let 'Em Sprout: Starting Seeds
Starting Seeds Indoors
Dianthus: Border Carnations
Dianthus: Border carnations
Time Again for Garden Question and Answers
Garden Questions & Answers
Vegetables Named All-America Selections' Winners
All-America Selections Award-winning Vegetables.
All-America Selections Flowers
Flower Winners from All-America Selections
Persimmons:Nothing to Pucker About
Persimmons: Nothing to Pucker About
Garden Question & Answer Time
Garden Question & Answer Time
After-Holidays' Poinsettia Care
Poinsettias: After-Holiday Care for this Christmas plant.
No Separation Anxiety: Divide Perennials
Dividing Perennials
Vegetables That Grow in Our Mild Winter Climate
Winter Vegetables
Garden Gifts for Christmas
Garden Gifts for Christmas
Holiday Relief: Christmas Tree Hunting
Holiday Relief: Christmas Tree Hunting
Thanksgiving: 'Turkeys' in the Garden
Gardening Turkeys
Redneck Gardening
Redneck Gardening or Gardening for Lazy Folks
Caring for Your Lawn Mower
Lawn Mower Care
Garden Envy: All Gardens Aren't Like Those in Garden Magazines
Garden Envy: All Gardens Aren't Like Those in Garden Magazines
Garden Question and Answers
Garden Questions and Answers
Fair Heather Friends
Fair Heather Friends
Fall Classics
Fall Classics
You Know You're a Redneck Gardener When...
You Know You're a Redneck Gardener When...
Garden Question and Answer Time
Garden Question and Answer Time for September
Spring-Blooming Bulbs
Spring-Blooming Bulbs
Gardening and Animals: They Don't Always Mix
Gardening and Animals: They Don't Always Mix
Lawn Planting Time
Fall is the time to plant lawns.
All-Time Favorite Roses
All-time Favorite Roses.
Gardening Q & A
Gardening Questions and Answers
Front versus Backyards
Front versus Backyard Gardens.
Questions Asked at Nurseries
Questions Asked at Nurseries.
Container Gardening
Container Gardening
Garden Question & Answer Time
Garden Question and Answer Time
Gilroy Garlic
Garlic is Easily Grown.
Let's Hear It for Nicki!
Nicotiana,a free-flowering summer bedding plant.
Gardening Tips
Gardening Tips
Kids Gardening
Children's Gardening
Garden Q&A Time Again
Garden Questions and Answers for June.
Fourth of July Flowers
Fourth of July Flowers Get You Into the Red, White and Blue Spirit.
The Vines of Summer
The Vines of Summer. Summer-blooming vines for your garden.
So You Wanna Grow BIG Tomatoes, Do You?
Growing Big Tomatoes.
'Passalong Plants:' Old-Fashioned Bloomers
Passalong Plants: Old-Fashioned Flowers
So You Wanna Grow Melons?
Melon Time.
Plant a Row for the Hungry: Another Year, Another Mouth Fed
Plant a Row for the Hungry: Another Year, Another Mouth Fed
Battling Breast Cancer with Impatiens
Support breast cancer research by buying impatiens bedding plants in the "Memories, Milestones & Miracles" campaign.
Garden Question and Answer Time Again!
Gardening Question and Answer Time.
Earth Day: Recycling Tires for Your Garden
Earth Day; Recycling Tires for Your Garden.
Companion Planting
Companion Planting: mixing vegetables in with your flower bed will pay dividends.
Uum, Uum Good! Home-grown Strawberries
Home-grown strawberries, you can't beat the taste.
No April Fools: Spring Garden Tricks
No April Fools. Here's a few spring garden tricks to get your garden to grow.
Spring Fever: Making the Most of Your Trip to the Nursery
Spring Fever: making the most out of your trip to the garden center.
Garden Quiz: You're Spending Too Much Time in the Garden When...
Garden Quiz: You're Spending Too Much Time in the Garden When...
Soil Preparation
Soil Preparation
Cypress March on England
Leylandii Cypress Pits Neighbor Versus Neighbor in England.
Top Rated Vegetables for 1999
New Vegetables for 1999. Top rated include: bean, radish, squash, lettuce, cabbage, eggplant, pepper and sweet corn.
Asian Vegetables Honored in 1999
Asian Vegetables Honored in 1999. They include: Asian eggplant, asparagus bean, daikon, pak choi and snow peas.
Salvias Get No Respect
Salvias Get No Respect. 1999 proclaimed the Year of the Salvia by the National Garden Bureau.
Gardening: Questions and Answers
Gardening Question-and-Answers. From frost-damaged plants and primroses to houseplants.
Camellias: The Princess of the Garden
Camellias: The Princess of the Garden. These shade-loving, vertical-growing plants add year-round beauty to the garden.
Twelve All Americans Named in 1999
Twelve All Americans Named in 1998.Eight flowers and four vegetables.
All-America Rose Selections Winners for 1999
All-America Rose Selections honors four winners for 1999. They are all available right now during bare-root rose season.
San Diego Gardens: Part 3
San Diego horticultural wonders. San Diego County is the top county in the U.S. for value of floriculture, nursery, greenhouse and sod products.
San Diego Gardens: Part 2
San Diego: A Horticultural Wonderland. Here, we visit Balboa Park.
San Diego Gardens
San Diego Zoo: the landscaping not the animals!
Fruit Tree Primer
Fruit Tree Primer. It's bare-root fruit tree season. Time to plant.
Pruning: A Cut Above
Pruning. Don't be afraid to prune trees and plants. Most of the time, pruning results in a healthier specimen.
Take It From the Expert
Transplanting Saga: Take it from the Gardening Expert
Plants to Avoid: Certifiable 'Turkeys'
Plants that are certifiable "turkeys." You don't want to plant these plants because they cause problems.
Horticultural Pick-Me-Up: Winter Flowers
Horticultural Pick-Me-Up: Winter Bedding Plants for "Instant" Color
Winter Salad Vegetables: Born to be Mild
Winter Vegetables: Grow your own salad in the depths of winter throughout most of California.
Erosion: Preventing the Great Terrain Robbery
Erosion control comes in many forms from planting groundcovers to rock mulches, plastic, drainage ditches, etc.
Trick or Treat Plants
There are plenty of plants that serve as "tricks or treats."
Fall Leaf Color
California Has Fall Leaf Color, Too!
Give Your Lawn Some 'Air'
Aeration: 'Air' for Lawns
Manure: Nothing to Sneeze At!
Manure in the Garden is Nothing to Sneeze At
Fall is for Planting
Fall is for Planting
Pucker Up for Persimmons
Pucker Up for Persimmons
Sweet Memories: Sweet Peas
Sweet Memories; Sweet Peas
Coral Bells: A Perennial Whose Foliage is Brighter Than Its Flowers
Coral Bells: An Old-fashioned Flower That's Been Modernized
Summer's Last Hurrah
Summer's Last Hurrah: Flowers to keep your summer going into fall/winter.
Gad Zukes: Enough Zucchini!
Gad Zukes: Enough Zucchini!
Cut Flowers Bring the Garden Indoors
Cut Flowers Bring the Garden Indoors
Flashy Hydrangeas are a Garden's Workhorse
Hydrangeas: Made in the Shade
Naked Ladies - Planting Belladona Lilies in Your Garden
How to grow belladonna lilies, also known as "naked ladies"
Harvesting Your Garden
Harvesting your Garden.
Rain on Demand: Drip Irrigation and Drip Hybrids
Drip irrigation
Mickey Mantis: Gardener's Friend, Insects' Enemy
Praying Mantis: A Beneficial Insect in the Garden
Vertical Flowers
Vertical Flowers
Fire-Tolerant Plants
Fire-retardant plants.
Impatiens: Annual Workhorse of the Garden
Impatiens: Annual Workhorse of the Garden
Home-Grown Corn: How Sweet It Is!
Home-grown corn: how sweet it is!
Year of the Tomato and Geranium
Year of the Tomato and Geranium
Tacky Garden Statue Saves Lives
Can it be a hero and still be tacky?
Amazing New Groundcover Unveiled
Poison oak/ivy rash.
Spring Fever Hits Garden Centers
Spring Fever: shopping at garden centers.
It's War Against Snails and Slugs
Killing snails and slugs during this El Nino year.
This Slug's For You!
Does beer really attract and kill snails and slugs? Find out here!
Memories, Milestones & Miracles
Memories, Milestones & Miracles: breast cancer research campaign during the month of May.
Aphid Time
Aphid Cntrol
Earth Day: Global Releaf
Earth Day: Global Releaf. How trees can conserve energy in your home.
Plant a Row for the Hungry
Grow more vegetabls than you can use? Plant a Row for the Hungry
Ahchoo! It's Allergy Season
Spring Fever
How to amend your soil to get the best start on the season
New Fangled Exercise Contraption
Lawbreaking Poppies
November Garden Questions and Answers
November Garden Questions and Answers
Brand New Gardens
Brand New Gardens: Tips to avoid future problems
New Flower Releases from Goldsmith Seeds
New Flower Releases from Goldsmith Seeds
Poisons in the Garden
Poisons in the Garden can be harmful to children and pets.
New Millennium Vegetables
New Millennium Vegetables
New Vegetable Varieties for 1999
New Vegetable Varieties for 1999. Including beans, cabbage, radishes, lettuce, pepper, eggplant, sweet corn.