Tools for watering
You've purchased your plants, you've amended your soil, you have everything in the ground or a container, and you're ready to enjoy. Wait! Don't forget about …
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Top 10 Tips For Watering your landscape
Our Landscape Division might love sunny, dry weather so they can install their designs with ease. And we like that idea too! But the downside of uninterrupted …
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Watering: How Much is Enough?
Watering can make or break your gardening success. Too much and the plants drown. Not enough and they turn to a crisp. Here’s what you need to know about …
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5 Tips to Help Plants Survive Your Vacation
Summertime often means going on vacation, taking trips and spending extended periods of time away from home. If you’re an avid gardener this can spell trouble.
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Gene Sumi Makes Houseplant Care Make Sense
Homestead's gardening educator did some teaching at the December meeting of our Golden Spades group and the topic of houseplants couldn't have been timelier. …
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What I Really Do in the Garden in August
The Garden in August Again, this isn't one of those looong lists of “chores” in the garden. I’m a gardener of the low-maintenance school, and I always want to …
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Sumi on Surviving this Horrible Summer
This is NOT a normal summer, Gene Sumi told shoppers during Homestead's Myrtle Festival - in the middle of the longest hot spell in anyone's memory. It all …
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What I'm Doing in the Garden, July Edition
More Pruning and Hacking Back First, I have to confess that this photo shows how my garden looked last month. Those astilbes have turned crispy, so I removed …
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The Wit and Wisdom of Andre Viette
The famous garden writer, nurseryman, and radio host Andre Viette delivered a whopping dose of his gardening "tips" to Homestead customers over the weekend …
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