From the Ground Up

Codling moth larvae are the cause of the infamous “worm” in the apple or pear and is the immature stage of a small moth. This pest spends the winter as a…

Our gardening practices directly affect our community and our environment. There are many healthy gardening habits we can adopt that will lessen our…

It's hard to believe, but the calendar says there are less than 50 days until spring. If you're at all like me, with all the welcomed winter rain, you…

It's officially winter, and one of the fun things about winter: it’s time to purchase our bare root plants. Specifically, bare-root roses.There are roses…

Thresholds are such interesting aspects of life, aren’t they? They’re important physical and metaphysical moments between this place and that place.The…

Irene from Chico called, and she said that while she was out pruning in her home orchard, she saw small branches and twigs that have completely died back…

The annual choosing of garden books to carry me through the winter comes with such promise of pleasure. As girls, my sisters and I would be asked by our…

I am planting bulbs, culinary and ornamental. A heavy box of hope and spring dreams arrived from the heirloom bulb supplier Old House Gardens Heirloom…