Topic: Michigan

Tried and trusted

It has been 50 years since I started working with perennials, and 43 years since I began planting up my garden, Foggy Bottom, in Bressingham, England. The first in Massachusetts in 1997 was followed by more in Michigan, Toronto, Peoria and Sacramento, ...

Art Van Coupons

Searching for Art Van coupons to lower the cost of your next furniture or mattress purchase? Art Van is a Michigan -based, family-owned company that offers furniture, mattresses and home furnishing items. Art Van is the largest retailer in Michigan and the ...
The state of Michigan rests within U.S. Department of Agriculture hardiness zones 4 and 5, where the average annual minimum temperature can dip between 10 and 20 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. Kentucky Bluegrass (Poa pratensis) Ironically, Kentucky bluegrass is not native to ...

How to Reduce Gas Bills

Natural gas bills can consume a sizable amount of your income. According to the DTE Energy Company in Michigan, heating and cooling constitute the largest energy expense in most households. According to the Kansas Corporation Commission, a temperature setting of 20 C ...
Slow and easy is important when starting a garden with kids. Sunflowers, Zinnias, beans and cucumbers are easy, and if you plant the sunflowers with a pole bean or cucumber seed (or plant) on the south side of the sunflower - the ...
We live in Michigan, in the U.S. and have about ten bird houses in my yard all year round. I hang one or two in my vegetable garden and a couple in my flower beds as wrens and bluebirds eat lots of ...
It has been 50 years since I started working with perennials, and 43 years since I began planting up my garden, Foggy Bottom, in Bressingham, England. The first in Massachusetts in 1997 was followed by more in Michigan, Toronto, Peoria and Sacramento, ...

The Science of Turfgrass

MSU Professor David Gilstrap defines turfgrass as "the carpet, including the upper part of the topsoil, the shoots, bacteria, fungi, microbes, earthworms.. Gilstrap reports that it is not the lawn but the fleet of highly inefficient mowers that are the cause of ...

Season-extending plants

Keeping the color Jim Jonker at Jonker's Garden in Holland, Mich., grows perennials throughout the summer. Jonker said he found growing the plants with natural ventilation tends to "harden" them up. This year Jonker didn't open as many greenhouses, instead choosing to ...

Reader Question: Clover in Lawns

One of my readers from Michigan emailed me to ask about what she should do about the clover in her lawn. Wrong.. Up until the mid 20th century, clover seed was included in most grass seed mixtures because it stays green, requires ...
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