Category: Ken Morgan

Use off-time to add late color splash

The October to-do list is shorter than past months, but the tasks are no less important. Try to tidy up the garden, plant spring flowering bulbs, add to your perennial garden, and incorporate shrubs with glorious fall color to...

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Fall is for planting

Trees, shrubs, bulbs, grass seed, mums, asters, pansies and many more are ready to be planted. The cooler temperatures, and more plentiful rainfall, makes fall a wonderful time to plant. An added benefit to fall planting is that...

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Know which seeds to harvest

Harvest seeds that are ripe but not so ripe the seed heads drop or spew seeds to the ground. Ripe seeds are usually dark. When the vegetative envelopes swelling at the base of spent flowers begin to yellow and dry up, you can...

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What’s causing those yellow leaves?

When you see yellow leaves on a plant, you know there’s a problem. Unfortunately, this is the upset stomach of gardening. Yellow leaves represent any number of conditions, including any of the following: Too much water; not...

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Don’t be a stranger to your garden

June can be a busy month in the garden. Dry weather brings the need to water plants more. Wet weather brings scouting tasks for disease and other pests. Plants need to be fed to keep growing and that lawn just won’t quit,...

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