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Melinda's Garden Moment: Coloring your spring garden

Combining colors in your garden can be overwhelming, but with a little help you can have a creative outdoor masterpiece of your own. More>>

Melinda's Garden Moment: Creative Plant Combination

Increase your garden's bloom power and an interest with simple combinations and plant selections. More>>

Melinda's Garden: Attracting Hummingbirds to the Garden

Bring in the hummingbirds and brighten your landscape with colorful plants. More>>

Melinda's Garden Moment: Garden for all 5 senses

A colorful landscape is a thing of beauty to enjoy with your eyes, but it should also appeal to your other senses. More>>

Melinda's Garden Moment: Edible Ornamental Landscape

A beautiful landscape can feed your body as well as your mind and spirit when you include some edible ornamental plants. More>>

Melinda's Garden Moment: Strawberry Pot Hanging Basket

Add a bit of nutrition and beauty to your patio, deck, or balcony with a pot of strawberries. More>>

Melinda's Garden Moment: Vegetable Gardens

Extend your season and planting space for more fresh from the garden flavor. More>>

Melinda's Garden Moment: Spring Flowering Perennials

Add color to your spring garden with a variety of plants. More>>

Melinda's Garden Moment: Controlling the Garlic Mustard

Garlic mustard is taking over our woodlands and landscapes at a rapid rate as it crowds out native beauties like trillium, spring beauty and trout lilies. More>>

Melinda's Garden Moment: Look out for Creeping Charlie

It's fragrant, produces flowers in spring, and adapts well to sun or shade. We're talking about Creeping Charlie, also known as ground ivy. This is a weed most gardeners are trying to eliminate from their lawns. More>>

Melinda's Garden Moments: Living Centerpieces

Melinda Myers is teaching us how to create a living centerpiece using plants suited to small containers, the growing conditions and your decor. More>>

Melinda's Garden Moment: Planting Small Seeds Made Easy

Nationally known gardening expert Melinda Myers gives tips on how to plant small seeds more easily. More>>

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Groundcovers for Shade
Groundcovers for Shade
Tired of trying to grow grass in the shade? Consider using shade tolerant groundcovers instead.More >>
Eco-friendly Mosquito Control
Eco-friendly Mosquito Control
Don't let mosquitoes prevent you from enjoying your garden this summer. A fan and a bit of outdoor housekeeping will help you manage these pests.More >>
Beyond Marigolds: Lesser Used Flowers for Your Garden
Beyond Marigolds: Lesser Used Flowers for Your Garden
Though we love our marigolds, zinnias and impatiens consider trying something new in your garden.More >>
Eco-friendly Control of Cabbage Worms
Eco-friendly Control of Cabbage Worms
Whether your favorite side dish is coleslaw, broccoli and cauliflower casserole or roasted Brussels sprouts – you'll get the best flavor when you grow the main ingredients yourself.More >>
Growing Fun, Healthy Habits
Growing Fun, Healthy Habits
If they grow them, kids are more likely to eat them – vegetables that is.More >>
Big Results from Small Gardens
Big Results from Small Gardens
No matter what size yard or balcony – there's always room to grow vegetables.More >>

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Melinda's Garden Moment: Taming your wild spring shrubs
Melinda's Garden Moment: Taming your wild spring shrubs
It's time spring cleaning extended to your flower garden. Bring your overgrown lilacs, forsythia and other spring flowering shrubs down to size while maintaining their natural beauty and spring floral display.More >>
It's time spring cleaning extended to your flower garden. Bring your overgrown lilacs, forsythia and other spring flowering shrubs down to size while maintaining their natural beauty and spring floral display.More >>
Melinda's Garden Moment: Snacking on Spring Flowers
Melinda's Garden Moment: Snacking on Spring Flowers
For years flowers have made it on the dining room table, but rarely as the main course. Adding a spring touch to your meals is as easy as ever thanks to edible flowers.More >>
For years flowers have made it on the dining room table, but rarely as the main course. Adding a spring touch to your meals is as easy as ever thanks to edible flowers.More >>
Late Season Beauty
Late Season Beauty
Mums and asters are favorite fall flowers but there are many more fall beauties to choose from.More >>
Creating Curb Appeal
Creating Curb Appeal
The best of our landscapes are often hidden behind our homes for only our family and friends to enjoy. But consider sharing a bit of your green thumb talents with passersby. More >>
Ornamental Grasses for Any Size Landscape
Ornamental Grasses for Any Size Landscape
Add motion, sound and texture to your landscape with strategically placed ornamental grasses.More >>
Harvesting, Ripening and Using Green Tomatoes
Harvesting, Ripening and Using Green Tomatoes
Fall has many of us scrambling to protect plants from frost, move tropicals indoors or finish harvesting our vegetables. Be sure you collect a few green tomatoes to ripen indoors. More >>
Bring in the Birds
Bring in the Birds
Add a little food, shelter and water for the birds and wait for the year round entertainment to begin.More >>
When and How to Harvest Sunflower Seeds
When and How to Harvest Sunflower Seeds
Sunflowers are a favorite for kids of all ages. Not only are they fun to grow they're also great to eat – that is - if you can beat the birds and squirrels to the seeds. More >>
Saving Geraniums Over Winter
Saving Geraniums Over Winter
Your geraniums are at peak bloom and you heard somewhere you could store them over winter – but you are wondering how?More >>
Fall Container Gardens
Fall Container Gardens
Add a splash of color to your fall garden with a few fresh containers.More >>
Dividing Iris
Dividing Iris
If your bearded iris are overcrowded like this or failed to bloom in spring – it is time to dig, divide and replant for better bloom next season. More >>
Drying and Preserving Herbs
Drying and Preserving Herbs
Keep the flavor of your garden alive all year long. Pick and dry herbs for winter meals and holiday gifts. More >>

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Tomato Troubles
Tomato Troubles
You waited all season for that first red ripe tomato only to discover less-than-perfect fruit. But don't worry, you can still have a great harvest and improve things for next season.More >>
Recyclables Find New Life in the Garden
Recyclables Find New Life in the Garden
Save money and be kind to the environment by putting discarded milk jugs, soda bottles and detergent containers to work in your landscape.More >>
Still Time to Plant Vegetables – Late Additions to the Garden
Still Time to Plant Vegetables – Late Additions to the Garden
Don't let the calendar stop you from gardening. There is still time to plant vegetables for you and your family to enjoy.More >>
Some Like it Hot
Some Like it Hot
You can save water and time yet still have beautiful flowers. These beauties, once established are drought tolerant.More >>
Growing a Butterfly-friendly Garden
Growing a Butterfly-friendly Garden
Add color and motion to any size landscape by inviting butterflies into your yard.More >>
Unique Homes for Your Container Gardens
Unique Homes for Your Container Gardens
Save a few memories and the environment by giving old items new life in your landscape.More >>
Creating Sitting Areas in the Garden
Creating Sitting Areas in the Garden
Patios and decks provide wonderful space to sit, relax and enjoy our landscape. With easy access, this deck is perfect for enjoying the morning sun and nearby water garden.More >>
Improve Plant Posture with Simple Supports
Improve Plant Posture with Simple Supports
Tired of trying to grow grass in the shade? More >>

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Grow a Healthy Lawn by Using Weeds as Lawn Problem Indicators
Grow a Healthy Lawn by Using Weeds as Lawn Problem Indicators
Weeds in the lawn aren't just a nuisance – they're a clue to the long-term solution for growing a beautiful and healthy lawn.More >>
From Lawn to Legumes
From Lawn to Legumes
Save money and improve your diet by converting a portion of your lawn into a productive vegetable garden.More >>
Dealing with the Emerald Ash Borer
Dealing with the Emerald Ash Borer
A look down streets in most cities and a walk through the woods will reveal the prevalence of our native ash trees.More >>
Water Conservation Never Looked So Good
Water Conservation Never Looked So Good
Dress up your rain barrel with a bit of paint and creativity.More >>
Eco-friendly Lawn Care
Eco-friendly Lawn Care
You can have a lawn and still be kind to the environment.More >>
Flower Garden Design Basics
Flower Garden Design Basics
Creating a beautiful garden can be overwhelming but understanding a few key concepts can make it much easier.More >>
Create an Attractive Landscape for You and the Wildlife
Create an Attractive Landscape for You and the Wildlife
If you plant it they will come. Birds, butterflies and other wildlife you and your family can enjoy right in your own backyard.More >>

Recycling at home and in your gardenMore>>
General information about recycling
General information about recycling
Learn about curbside recycling and how various communities make it convenient for residents to recycle at home.More >>
Collecting used bottles, cans, and newspapers and taking them to the curb or to a collection facility is just the first in a series of steps that generates a host of financial, environmental, and social returns.More >>