10 results for "Dean Fosdick"
Use nature's pest hunters to keep your garden green
Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 12:00 AMLooking for some help in the garden? Many of nature's most useful critters lie literally at our feet, underappreciated and ignored despite their ability to eliminate insects, condition soils and pollinate plants.
Grow your own cocktail garden
Saturday, March 30, 2013 at 12:00 AMGardening can be an intoxicating hobby, especially if the botany is booze-related.
Get your garden producing quickly
Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 12:00 AMVegetable gardening is an exercise in patience. Sweet potatoes can take more than 100 days to ripen; some tomato and watermelon varieties require five months.
Gardening and fitness training make natural partners
Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 12:00 AMGardens can be great training grounds for fitness buffs.
Grafting comes to the vegetable patch
Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 12:00 AMIn many of the seed catalogs arriving soon in mailboxes, the headliners will be grafted vegetables, in which one or more different varieties grow from a single rootstock. Tomatoes seem to be the grafted transplants most frequently offered, provi...
Now's the time to start growing next year's lawn
Saturday, October 6, 2012 at 12:00 AMFall is the best time to prepare lawns for the next growing season by mowing, raking, aerating and fertilizing. The game plan changes, though, if drought-stressed grass has been dormant for a long time.
Beware the cold nights ahead in your garden
Saturday, August 25, 2012 at 12:00 AMMid- to late summer is prime time for gardeners – a last chance to grow a second batch of fresh vegetables before plant-killing cold weather arrives. Add a few protective enclosures, such as cold frames, overhead sheets and hoops, and the h...
Heirloom veggies keep up flavor and authenticity
Saturday, July 14, 2012 at 12:00 AMAs recently as a decade ago, the word "heirloom" was used to describe jewels, furniture or handicrafts – one-of-a-kind items of uncommon quality or design – that were passed down by families over generations.
Cactuses more popular as water dries up
Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 12:00 AMLandscaping with cactus has been an acquired taste for many gardeners, but it appears the appetite for the robust plants is growing. Lingering drought, watering bans and low-maintenance requirements are making cactuses more popular.
Some edibles provide feast for the eyes
Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 12:00 AMSweet potato vines decorating window boxes? Blueberry plants prized more for their foliage than their fruit?
