What to Plant in the Fall for a Beautiful Spring!

Spring is when we usually think of planting new plants.  After a long harsh winter, it’s a time of new beginnings and new life and little leaves are starting to sprout out of the ground its time to figure out what you want to plant in your garden this year and get started!  However, there are a select few plants that are better suited to be planted in the fall than in the spring, let’s take a … [Read more...]

Nine Easy Landscape Ideas to Revamp your Yard this Summer

Your lawn or front yard is often the first impression someone gets of your house, especially if your house is close to the road and easily seen by those driving by.  Here are a few quick and easy landscape ideas that can help renew your yard this summer. ADD SOME COLOR Color is an easy aspect to add to your garden or yard with either colorful flowers, or even colorful foliage plants such as: … [Read more...]

How to deter Groundhogs from Spending Quality Time in your Garden

It’s that exciting time of year again when our flowers are blooming, and our gardens are starting to produce vegetables that are almost ripe and ready for picking.  But then we start to notice beautiful flower heads going missing, and same with that almost ripe tomato or head of lettuce has been picked right off too. Who is the culprit of all this? Probably groundhogs unfortunately, and most … [Read more...]

When and Where should I be Mulching?

When asking yourself if you should be mulching or not, the answer is always yes! The next questions is then how much and how often to mulch? Mulching too much, not enough or not with the right kind can be detrimental to your plants, so lets find out more! SOME OF THE MAIN REASONS TO MULCH: Retain water in the root area. Cooling of the root area. Nutritional break-down. Insect, … [Read more...]