Across the country, homes, offices, shops and restaurants are adorned with flowering plants adding color and charm throughout the holiday season. It’s delightful to have a house filled with the fragrance of a rosemary topiary
Angelo’s Grocery Store Hack My mother made the best spaghetti sauce from a recipe used as a girl in Sicily. She started with thick sauce from tomatoes grown in our garden. As she cooked down
Angelo’s Favorite Throwback Plants A Brief History of Houseplants In the 1970s, houseplants were a craze. They experienced a decorative revival fashioned off the lavish lifestyle of the Roaring 1920s. But houseplants used as home
How to Bring Plants Inside Temperatures will soon drop to 50°F degrees and below in many parts of the country. Since most houseplants originated from the tropics, they cannot withstand sudden changes in temperature.
Seed Saving Primer My first experience of seed saving was my early years of gardening with my father. My Dad was from Sicily where most people grew much of their own food and used flowers
Interesting Succulents for Your Garden There are many oddities that exist within the world of succulents. Thanks to the efforts of plant purveyors, collectors and hybridizers we can now enjoy several unusual offerings. The following
Fall Garden Cleanup and Autumn Garden Maintenance One of my favorite gardening chores is cleaning-up and cutting-back garden plants in the autumn and early winter. In fact, it’s not a chore at all. It’s a
Plant Bulbs Now for Spring There is nothing like treating yourself to a burst of early spring color after the coldest days of winter with an explosion of blooms from fall planted spring bulbs. Depending
5 Gardening Myths There are common gardening myths that we easily accept as true. Even though they seem to make sense, these accepted methods are often backed more by folklore than research and science. In
Advantages of Trench Composting vs. Conventional Composting Composting has many benefits. It produces nutrient soil that helps to retain moisture and reduces the need for chemical fertilizers. It encourages the production of beneficial bacteria and
Summer harvest is around the corner, do not let bugs feast on your blooms and veggies before you do! Although most insects that inhabit our garden do no harm to our plants, the ones that
What is crabgrass and how did it get here? Crabgrass seeds were brought to the United States from Europe by immigrants. Early settlers grew the plants, harvesting the nutritious seeds as a grain. In the
