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It’s the perfect food and habitat for jumping worms. Before you reach for those bags of wood chips or bark mulch in the spring, you…
Ah, Autumn! The joyous season of the harvest, for us green-thumbed folk. However, this season of warmth and coziness isn’t without its tribulations for growers….
As the onset of cool, autumnal winds pushes out the corn-sweatingly sweltering summer, we northern gardeners enter one of the most fleetingly beautiful times of…
Gardeners don’t need special shoes and clubs like golfers do, and we don’t have topricey rods and reels like anglers or a fancy bike, helmet…
Tweak your plant shopping list with these four factors in mind. Have you tried adding prairie plants to your garden and been less than thrilled…
With garden planning season in full swing, many gardeners are thinking beyond which varieties of vegetables they want to grow and wondering how they can…
Is there an area in your garden or property where it’s hard to get rid of non-native invasive plants? Or maybe you have a section…
What do you think of when you hear the word forest? Stands of massive redwoods? Old growth forests in Canada? A national forest? The “North…
Full sun is usually described as six to eight hours of sunlight per day. But some gardens may be sunny eight, 10 or even 12…
Spring is here! Central Minnesota’s two-year drought has recently all but come to an end with some glorious rainfall. It’s wonderful to see the way…
If you want a productive home garden, add nourishing compost, preferably homegrown. Judith Anthony, whose unusual raspberry trellising system is profiled in the Spring 2024…
It must be garden planning season because two different people recently asked me variations of this question. Let’s dig in. Question: I’d really like to…
Have you heard about agroecology? There’s a movement among some farmers and growers toward “greener” crops—switching from genetically modified (GMO), non-native plants to native crops…
Beyond their value in the garden and the larger ecosystem, many native plants make excellent additions to cut floral arrangements. And many have vase lives…
If you’re keen to help bees and butterflies—and as a gardener, of course you are—there’s a plant you’ll most definitely want to add to your…
This question came via Facebook, and I sadly have personal experience with it. You’re trying to grow native plants and support pollinators however you can,…
I have a patch at the back of my yard where the ground dips to a low spot just beneath a silver maple tree. For…
Bees are vital pollinators, and their role in maintaining healthy ecosystems cannot be overstated. In Minnesota, both native and non-native bees contribute to the pollination…
A chickadee zips overhead, landing deftly on the edge of its tiny nest. Three bald babies bounce up for a bite from the bug buffet…
Mother Nature is on her own schedule; this spring proves it more than ever. No matter when the blooming begins, the spring parade of color found in shrubs and small trees is splendid, and these beauties display in a fairly predictable order.
Heart’s racing, hands shaking, you reach for the doorknob. The hinge creaks. Cobwebs stretch and snap as a widening crack of light seeps in, crawling…
Native plant seeds are drying and ready for collecting! First things first, always get permission from those who manage or own the site or garden….
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