Colorful and Flowering Plants to Brighten Up Your Yard in the Early Spring
Your yard should have a sequence of color starting in spring and taking you on a journey of color and joy throughout the year. I’m going to start by showing you a few things that will really wake up your yard in early spring. Lynnwood Gold Forsythia. A lot of people don’t like Forsythia,...
How to Make Your Own Sprinklers on Stand Pipes.
Last week I realized that I need a couple of portable sprinklers that I could easily move around but they had to be high enough to clear small plants so I would get good coverage. Those tripod sprinklers that you can buy are nice but they are expensive, and I had some that were...
Snow Damaged, Hoop House, Greenhouse, High Tunnel.
A lot of our members want greenhouses, even though you can easily do the Backyard Nursery Business with one. I don’t have one. Had one, took it down. Everything I do is without a greenhouse. If I were to do 30,000 or 50,000 Rhododendron cuttings each year for that I’d build a greenhouse. Everything...
How can I use free wood chips in my garden?
When we utter the word mulch it can mean a lot of different things. Some mulch is free, some mulches we make ourselves via composting and some mulches you have to pay for. Where can I get Free Mulch? For the most part the only mulch that you are likely to get free of...
Easy Composting Ideas and Receipes.
Tell us about your composting methods. I’d love for you to share your composting, recipes, ideas and strategies here with others. Post a comment below. You Should Be Doing this! You Can Make Up to $93.60 in One Square Foot in Your Backyard. Take a Peek. Rule #1 about composting. Composting doesn’t have to...
Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick
As many of you know I’m a big fan of the crazy looking plant Harry Lauder’s Walking Stick. The true beauty of this plant is it’s crazy contorted branches that can’t grow straight if they tried. Two years ago we planted hundreds of these in nursery and last week we dug them all. Some...
How to Ruin a Japanese Maple Tree.
Why would I Write a Blog Posting about Ruining a Japanese Maple? Because people do it all the time unintentionally. Here’s the deal; “You only know what you know.” That includes me. So my job here is to make sure that all of my followers/subscribers learn things that I know and they may not....
Should I Remove the Burlap Before Planting My Tree?
Excellent question and here’s my definitive answer; “It depends.” There are a lot of different kinds of so called burlap being used to ball trees today and there’s no way for me to know what kind of burlap your tree has on it. I often like to leave the burlap intact when planting trees...
Spring Pruning Tips. Should I Prune Now?
Pruning, pruning, pruning, pruning! When to prune? How to prune? When to prune this? When to prune that? People seem so confused by it all. So in as few words as possible I am going to give you my take on pruning. Hey! Do You Have an Extra Square Foot in Yard? Just One...
Preventing a Back Injury While Gardening.
To many, gardening and back injuries go hand in hand. But that shouldn’t be the case. Gardening can be the most back friendly activity that you engage in, but you have to be smart about it. Gardening is not about killing yourself with hard work, heavy lifting or tugging and pulling. I’ve got back...
