Tuesday’s Tips — August Gardening

We are deep into summer weather now and it's proving to be even hotter and drier than last month in SoCal — no real surprise there. What's also not too surprising is our general lack of enthusiasm for gardening lately. It always happens this time of year. Most of the plants are well past their...

Tuesday’s Tips — May Gardening

Mary Beth and I are crazy-busy in our gardens and in our clients' gardens. To make things a little more challenging it's also prime time for garden writing and we're both a little overwhelmed right now. We'll leave you with a few helpful tips to tide us over until we can catch our breath. Planting...

Tuesday’s Tips — Rose Slugs

Update: I'm pinning post this to the top of the page because this can be such a frustrating problem. The rose slugs (aka rose sawfly larvae) seem to be worse some years than others an it's still a little early and cool for the bugs to show up, but when they do come here's what...

Tuesday’s Tips — Grab Bag

Here again is a grab bag of tips. In some ways I like these posts the best because this is pretty much the state of my brain at any given moment — a jumble of random stuff. Drives me crazy sometimes, but on the other hand it's always interesting. Putting a little focus on it,...