Gardening Tips and Plant Care Blog
Blog Entries - 2025
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Winter Plant Care in Zone 6 That Helps Your Garden Thrive
Frost crystals edge your trees’ leaves, your lawn crunches underfoot, and your garden beds icily glisten in the clean, white, winter sun. With the first hard freeze, winter arrives and changes the landscape quickly.
In Zone 6, that first freeze marks the beginning of active winter care. Cold snaps, snowfall, and fluctuating temperatures can damage exposed roots, weaken perennials, and stress container plants that are left unprotected. Without a bit of attention, it’s easy to lose growth you worked hard for all season.
This blog will walk you through what to do, when to do it, and which plants can keep your garden going through the cold months ahead.
Fresh Holiday Greenery Tips and Ideas to Help You Deck the Halls
The winter holidays have always been tied to the sight and scent of greenery. Fresh boughs carried inside on a frosty day bring with them the sharp fragrance of pine and the lively gloss of holly leaves. For generations, families have hung wreaths on doors, wound garlands around banisters, and placed colorful poinsettias by the hearth as a way of filling their homes with life when the garden outside lay sleeping. Decorating with fresh greenery is a tradition that connects us to the past while making our homes feel festive in the present.
Fall Garden Prep That Sets the Stage for Next Season’s Color
When the air turns crisp and the maples blaze in reds and golds, many gardeners feel that familiar urge to call it a wrap on the season. Beds look a little tired, containers aren’t as full, and it feels like the year’s best color has passed.
But fall holds more potential than many realize.
Seasonal Secrets for Fall Planting: Trees, Shrubs, and Perennials That Thrive
The leaves are whispering their way to the ground. The air carries a crispness that lingers in your sleeves. And the soil? Still warm, still welcoming, still working. Fall is a quiet season in the garden, but not a sleepy one. This is the time when experienced gardeners lean in. While others are winding down, they’re planting.
The Beginner’s Guide to Fall Vegetable Gardening in USDA Zone 6
The days are getting shorter, the tomatoes are tired, and your cucumbers might be calling it quits... But your garden doesn’t have to.
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Garden Bugs: The Good, the Bad, and the Bugly
It's finally summer, and gardens in the Miami Valley are once again full of life. Bees hover over blooms, beetles dive beneath leaves, and the soil never stays still for long. Some of those visitors are helping your garden thrive... Others are treating it like an all-you-can-eat buffet.