National Gardening Association

February 28, 2008
Upper South
By Maggie Oster,
Borden, IN

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In My Garden

Great Tastes Await

Wasn't it just the day before yesterday that I pulled the last boiling hot jar of green beans from the canner and hauled the bushel baskets of winter squash and potatoes to the cellar? Even if in reality all that was over four months ago, it's always...
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Resources

Web Finds

2008 Perennial Plant of the Year Beautiful, adaptable, and easy to grow, the hardy geranium cultivar 'Rozanne' is a worthy...

Tool or Gardening Product

Unifork Sometimes I rush out and get the latest thing as soon as it's introduced, while at other times I...

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Regional Reminders

Plant Sweet Peas
Test Soil's pH
Prune Berries
Sow Delphinium Seeds
Control Spider Mites

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National News

From NGA Editors

Snow Pea With a Touch of Gold

Springtime is pea time in the vegetable garden. There’s nothing like the taste of freshly picked English, snap, or snow peas. Although peas are grown mostly for their flavor, now these edible...

New Look in Foxgloves

Foxgloves ( Digitalis ) are popular biennials and perennials with 1- to 4-foot-tall bloom spikes in colors ranging from white to purple. They have colorful mottling in the center of individual...

Fabric Pots Offer Advantages

Every year there are more types of containers on the market. While the trend is toward more decorative and fashionable pots, these may not be the best ones for your plants. Dark-colored plastic...

New Book Plumbs the Truth About Organic Gardening

As organic gardening becomes more common, there are many assumptions about its safety that get promoted by the media. It’s hard to know which organic gardening techniques and products are...

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February 28, 2008 Upper South By Maggie Oster, Borden, IN