It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

Late winter (or very early spring if you're an optimist) is when I give my bamboos their first feeding of the year. It's commonly th...

With a couple of days of mid-spring temperatures -- yesterday's high was 74ºF (23ºC) -- I've started doing some springtime garden ch...

As I mentioned yesterday about my visit to Schlafly Gardenworks this weekend, we all got to take home bags of aged manure. This may no...

That's what I said to many of my bamboos this weekend, as I gave them their first fertilization of the year. Why did I say this? ( Wh...

After the snow melted in our recent "heatwave", I was checking out one of my bamboos that was bent to the ground in the snow , jus...

I may have mentioned it before, but I use organic fertilizers on all of my in-ground plantings: vegetables, perennials, bamboo -- everything...