It's Not Work, It's Gardening!

Yes, it seems like we've made it through another winter, but with that title I'm not talking about myself. I'm talking abou...

I realized recently that in my flurry of pre-freeze activity last month I never posted about my banana overwintering preparations. I let my ...

Yesterday's post was about my biggest surprise of the year (baby fish). Today I will share a smaller one, found in the front walkway ga...

I've been lazy with bringing plants indoors this year. Yes, I got them into the garage when necessary, but sorting them into the "s...

It's that time of year when I, in 5 minutes, drastically change the look of my back garden. Sadly, it is time to prepare the hardy ...

Although I did bring some plants in before the first frost was forecast a few weeks ago, I left many out there until much colder weather was...

As I've mentioned before, I have a new strategy for overwintering this year. Well, perhaps "attitude" is a better word than ...

Even though most plants are ahead of schedule this year due to our early warm weather here in St. Louis, a few of my plants have emerged lat...

Spring for most people is a sure thing: a time when the weather warms up, blooms start appearing, and everything greens up. To a gardener th...

Temperatures are very springlike in St. Louis this week: between 60ºF (15ºC) and 70ºF (21ºC) every day with lows that don't go below 50º...

A taste of Spring this weekend had me taking a look at the veggie garden last Thursday, as I thought it would be an ideal time to get some s...

With three days of spring-like temperatures arriving starting today, I dragged the potted walking stick bamboo (Chimonobambusa Tumidissinoda...

Winter that is. It's not that the cold weather has me down, although if pleasant temperatures would hurry along that would be fine with ...

Last week I talked about the cactus that always seem to grow during the winter , regardless of how much light or water they get. Although I...

One thing I've learned after several years of overwintering plants indoors is that there is a balance that you need to strike between gr...

One of the ways that I continue gardening over the long winter months is through cuttings. It's one of my overwintering strategies for t...

I spent some time digging more elephant ears and cannas yesterday just before dark. I left some cannas in the ground as an experiment, and t...

Because it's been so mild, there has not been any urgency in digging up the tropicals. Yes I dug and brought into the garage some of the...

Although temperatures still don't have me concerned -- it's just been so mild, just barely getting below freezing a few nights -- I ...

I overwinter a lot of succulents indoors: agaves, aloes, euphorbias, cactus, and most of them are quite easy as long as they get a little li...