Fallen leaves provide essential winter habitat for native pollinators and provide natural mulch for the soil. If you have to clear some leaves, don’t get rid of them entirely: Move them out of sight.
What gardeners do at the end of the growing season will determine how clean, productive and manageable their garden beds will be when spring arrives.
Too much fertilizer disrupts the hidden world of soil-dwelling microbes that were sustaining healthy crops long before synthetic fertilizer was invented.
LACONIA — Several new businesses have been getting established in the city’s downtown in recent months. And now, new trees are starting to tak…
Well intentioned people of the past century imported many handsome plants. Unfortunately, some of them — absent the predators of their homelan…
LACONIA — Trees, sometimes described as lungs of the earth, are seen as breathing a natural feel into city centers, including Laconia.
With the mother waking up after her long slumber, spring rains shower her with clean, sparkling water scrubbing away the last vestiges of wint…
I spend a lot in plant nurseries. At $10 or more a pop, it is easy to spend a hundred dollars quick as a blink. But I’m also a firm believer i…
I don’t mean to sound like I’m bragging, but if it will grow in Cornish Flat, New Hampshire, I’ve probably tried it. Scorzonera? Sure, once, b…