Will Spring Ever Come?? I think this was on classic rocker, Rod Stewart’s mind when he wrote the deeply moving lyrics, And don’t it seem like a long time Seem like a long time, seem like a long, long time And don’t …
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Before you get panicky and anxious, this is not a post about the election, politics or a state of the Union in any shape or form. No, this is more of a look back at what I won’t miss …
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As we come to the close of another gardening season I try to take time to recall what really went well and what was a little disappointing. Luckily with age and years in the garden comes clarity and a realistic …
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Now that the days and nights are getting cooler, it’s time to start closing up the garden. But, since we are blessed to be gardening in Cincinnati, there is a good chance we could see temperatures reach 80 a few …
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Perhaps I should not admit this to you, our visitors, but I feel I need to shine a light on this garden malady. I was standing in the garden, shovel in hand and just stood there, staring and feeling a …
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No garden is perfect, and I can tell you that the Civic Garden Center/Sooty Acres has some humdinger of spaces to work in. We have gardens abutting a busy road, areas that are under well established trees (read many, many …
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Let’s kill a tree! I say that tongue in cheek after seeing this over the holiday weekend; mulch piled up to a record setting height. Why, why, why? Why is it so hard to break some habits that will ultimately …
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Pick up new kitchen skills and recipe ideas at the Civic Garden Center’s summer food classes August is a time of bounty in the garden (and farmers’ markets)… so what are you going to do with all those fruits and …
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As a gardener, I have a wide range of feelings about insects. I go out of my way to attract certain insects to my vegetable garden, namely pollinators and insects that eat or parasitize garden pests. While some visitors to …
Read More »This morning’s rain, the big stuff, the blow-the-roof-off, turn-semi’s-over, strip-every-green-and-flowering-thing kind of rain is now in West Virginia and we just had a soft, leftover shower, the kind that doesn’t even show up on radar and the birds sing through. …
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