Gardening with Gail – Agastache
Funny name for a fantastic native plant! By Gail Frezzette Moana Nursery Color Buyer & Successful High Desert Gardener This plant is perfect for our Nevada climate and soils as well as for our...
View ArticleSpring Inspiration – - Beautiful Flowers
Get into spring … this link set to music is exceptional. From Vorobyoff Productions … “The Beauty of Flowers” …reminds us why we garden and landscape (2:29 minutes only).
View ArticleRaspberries and Blackberries At Home
As “we” gardeners continue to appreciate the joy of harvesting our own food, berries have become more popular than ever. Berries grown at home have unbeatable flavor and they require very little work....
View ArticleGetting Started: Growing Blueberries at Home in the High Desert
Berries you can eat fresh, bake into pies, freeze, dry or can that grow on an attractive spring flowering plant that features rich fall color? We must be talking about blueberries. As the healthy...
View ArticleWhat is going on with our bees?
Honeybee on lavender What is going on with our bees? Honeybees are in trouble. In the last 50 years, experts say the domesticated honey bee population declined nearly 50 percent in the USA. This year...
View ArticleHave Fun Pruning!
We are careful to use video instructions from other sources because of the uniqueness and challenge of our high desert environment. But, our friend in the high desert of Arizona has a great sense of...
View ArticleHome Grown versus Store Bought Tomatoes
Tomatoes are the favorite vegetable for home growing. Over the past years, commercial growers have produced tomato varieties that valued shelf-life and unblemished prettiness over taste–and the result...
View ArticleUsing Cow Manure In Your Garden
Why don’t people use cow manure as much today??? Answer … Because it is smelly and no fun to handle! Actually, steer manure has always been considered a good, cheap fertilizer and many old timers...
View ArticleFertilizing in the High Desert
Plant Fertilizer Basics for the High Desert Reading a bag of plant fertilizer can be an intimidating experience. Most people, especially those new to gardening, are not sure what to make of “NPK” or...
View ArticleWhat Does “Feed Your Soil” Really Mean?
Healthy Soil The Organic Way! If you know anything about organic gardening, you’ve heard the phrase ‘feed your soil.’ While it sounds like a good thing to do, you may wonder what it means. It may seem...
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