Lower South Regional Report

A Cut Above

It is pruning season. These mid to late winter days are the best time to prune most trees, as well as vines and shrubs. The exceptions to this rule are those plants that only bloom in spring, which are best pruned after they complete their bloom cycle....
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Pruning Trees
Reflective Foil for Stronger Transplants

Plant Bare Root Fruit Trees, Vines and Bushes
Plant Cool Season Greens
Plant Cool Season Color
Maintain Even Moisture on Houseplants
Start Warm Season Flowers

Make a Smart Start in 2012

I am not a big fan of New Year's resolutions, although most of us have used the transition to a new year as a starting point for making a change. Yet any point in the year is a good time to resolve to do things better, and this is certainly true when it...
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Air Layering A Plant
Make An Overgrown Houseplant Smaller

Prune Deciduous Shrubs, Vines, and Trees
Plant Onion Transplants
Prepare Garden Soil for Spring Planting
Start Tomato and Pepper Transplants
Mulch the Soil Surface in Landscape Beds

Plant a Decorative Mixed Foliage Container for Indoors

Winter weather shuts down much of our outdoor gardening activities, even in the Lower South. I get rather stir-crazy when cold or rainy weather leaves me cooped up inside. Thank goodness for indoor gardening activities to keep a gardener busy and to add...
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Interiorscape Plants
Create an "Instant" Mixed Container

Purchase Seeds and Seed Starting Supplies
Sharpen Pruning Tools
Plant Tulips and Hyacinths
Stock Bird Feeders
Remove Fallen Leaves from Turf

A Fruitful Fall Season

A friend shared a box of persimmons with me the other day. Looking down into the box at a layer of the ripe fruit brought back memories. A number of years ago I lived in the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri. Wild persimmons were plentiful. During...
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Heirloom Gardening
Ornamental Kale 'Red Bor'

Create Fresh Wreaths
Build A Leaf Storage Bin
Clean Up Tools for Storage
Care for Houseplants
Start Cool Season Vegetable Transplants

Gardening the "Back Forty"

I've noticed that garages and closets never seem to have enough space for all the stuff I want to put in them. The same is true for my gardens. Some people have a decent amount of space to plant flowers, vegetables, and herbs on their property, but many...
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Vegetable Gardening in Containers
Gardening in the Bag

Harvest Broccoli
Plant Cool Season Greens in Succession
Plant Pansies and Violas
Mulch Fallow Garden Areas
Tend Young Flower Seedlings

The Case of the Missing Fall Blooms

Strolling about the garden this week I was very impressed with a fall aster that is absolutely loaded with blooms. Bees and beneficial insects including hoverflies (syrphid flies) were busy at work on the small lavender blooms. Nearby some Mexican mint...
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Fall Aster
Keep Holiday Cactus Happy

Mulch Fruit Trees
Feed Cool Season Vegetables
Collect and Save Seed
Relocate Landscape Plants
Prepare Soil for Winter Fruit Tree Planting

PLANting Season

The first four letters in the word plant spell plan. We gardeners tend to forget that. If you won't tell anyone, I'll admit to a few planting endeavors that had little planning involved. Of course this was a very, very long time ago and I'd never be so...
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Florist's Cyclamen
Weed Free Seed Strips

Make Small Lettuce Plantings
Establish Perennial Herbs
Fertilize Color Containers
Plant Indoor Bulbs
Add Mulch Around Woody Ornamentals

A Garden Left Behind

I am about to move to a new city and leave my landscape and gardens behind. To say I have mixed emotions is definitely an understatement. As a gardener I am an eternal optimist, and while I don't even know yet where I will be living, I can tell you for...
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Heirloom Gardening
Plant Bulbs at Proper Depth

Stop Fertilizing Houseplants
Spice Up Your Salads
Prepare Gas Powered Equipment for Winter
Do A Sanitary Cleanup On Fruit Trees
Plant Spinach and Mustard

Catch Spring Fever in the Fall

Gardening fever is a common ailment of spring. Something deep within us beckons us outdoors to dig in the soil and plant things. While spring is certainly a wonderful gardening season, veteran gardeners can tell you that there is no season like fall...
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Plant Propagation
Grow Mesclun Greens Separately

Plant Cool Season Flowers
Plant Cole Crops
Plant Bulbs
Plant Next Spring's Blooms Now
Lawn Rescue

Fabulous Foliage for Sunny Spots

One of the best ways to add color to our warm season southern landscapes is to use foliage. Summer brings heat that sends many of our blooming landscape plants to that great botanical garden in the sky. Those that don't fry and die may continue on but...
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Global Buckets
Variegated Tapioca Plant

Prepare Soil for Woody Ornamental Planting
Rescue Trees
Purchase Bulbs
Prepare Soil for Sweet Peas
Maintain Moist Soil for Berrying Plants

Made for the Shade

It is hot and muggy outside. Even in the shade the mercury is pushing three digits. There is something very wrong when sitting in the shade doing nothing leaves you soaked in perspiration! While we gardeners may retreat to the safety of an air...
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Local Food
Filling A Tree Cavity?

Shear Roses
Plant Warm Season Fall Flowers
Inspect Drip Irrigation Lines
Start Fall Transplants Indoors
Air Layer Giant Houseplants

Lower South Regional Report

A Cut Above

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Reminders

Make a Smart Start in 2012

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Reminders

Plant a Decorative Mixed Foliage Container for Indoors

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Reminders

A Fruitful Fall Season

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Reminders

Gardening the "Back Forty"

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Reminders

The Case of the Missing Fall Blooms

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Reminders

PLANting Season

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Reminders

A Garden Left Behind

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Reminders

Catch Spring Fever in the Fall

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Reminders

Fabulous Foliage for Sunny Spots

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Reminders

Made for the Shade

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Reminders