Removing spent blooms from your garden flowers can be tedious work. Pinching or pruning dead flowers is not just a matter of aesthetics, it can also encourage additional blooming.
Nothing disrupts the beauty and productivity of a garden more than a takeover of weeds. Fortunately, a combination of timing, technique and good garden habits can keep weeds in check.
Don鈥檛 worry if you haven鈥檛 planted yours yet. The time-honored planting deadline is May 30, so you鈥檙e still well within the ballpark, Don Kinzler writes.
Hot May weather almost fooled Ann Bailey into planting warm-season plants early. But she knew from her own experience and the experience of those before her that it鈥檚 safer to wait for Memorial Day.
Nameless Coalition for the Homeless and BI-CAP will host a ground blessing ceremony for their new community garden at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 29, at The New Day Center.
The Shevlin Garden Club will hold its annual plant sale from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 24, in the Horticulture Building on the Clearwater County Fairgrounds.
Dawn Wann's Gardens, in conjunction with Northwest Minnesota Farmers and Producers, will hold a farmers market from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, May 16, at 20248 203rd Ave., in Bagley.
