Gardening This Weekend: October 24, 2024

By Neil Sperry • October 22, 2024

Here’s a start to a checklist for your upcoming weekend. Feel free to add important activities to it as you see fit. PLANT• Winter color from pansies, violas, pinks, snapdragons, …

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Are armyworms back?

By Neil Sperry • October 16, 2024

Nursery professionals, entomologists, agronomists, and hack horticulturists like me are getting the question: “Are armyworms back?” Yes, indeed they are. Here are the quick facts of the matter. • Armyworms …

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A hobby for the obsessive

By Neil Sperry • October 16, 2024

My wife came home from Christmas school board dinners two years in a row – 5 and 6 years ago – with lovely wicker basket 6-in. pots of devil’s ivy …

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Gardening This Weekend: October 17, 2024

By Neil Sperry • October 15, 2024

Let’s start the preparations for late fall and winter. Here are this weekend’s goals. PLANT• Nursery stock. You’ll get some good bargains as garden centers reduce inventories before winter, plus …

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Welcome the season with pumpkins – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • October 10, 2024

Whether they are as yellow as a harvest moon, as pasty-white as a graveyard ghost, as warty as a witch’s face, or as smooth as the pads on a black …

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How many seeds per ounce?

By Neil Sperry • October 9, 2024

When you look at seed catalogs, especially those that nursery growers will be using, they usually tell you how many seeds there will be in one ounce of each type …

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One of our best unknown plants

By Neil Sperry • October 9, 2024

Places where smart people garden like North Carolina State University and the Missouri Botanical Garden call this plant “firecracker flower,” or at least that’s the common name they try to …

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Gardening This Weekend: October 10, 2024

By Neil Sperry • October 9, 2024

I work hard at this part of e-gardens each week because I know most of you look through it for details of things you need to be doing. I list …

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