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Fall Cleanup
Nov 7th
Beautiful fall foliage needs to be cleaned up to protect your lawn.
The first frosts have hit all around the country, with some people even experiencing record snowfall. The trees are bare, the annuals dead, the perennials sleeping, and surprisingly enough the camellias still blooming.
Now’s the time to do some cleanup in your garden, to be ready for next years display. First and foremost, if you have a lot of leaves covering either your garden or your lawn, you need to deal with them. You need to rake the leaves off the lawn, as they could pack down and kill the More >
New Information From Extension Agent
Feb 18th
I’ve been gardening for years and years, and know better than to believe everything I read in a book. Today I learned that the remedy that is touted in most books to work with improving your soil is not such a good recommendation for our particular type of pretty heavy clay.
I was shocked to find out that some of the amendments I’ve been incorporating into my soil when preparing new beds are doing little if any good. Peat moss and vermiculite in particular were considered a waste.
Peat is used mainly for holding water into the soil, something clay is overly More >