Garden Truths From My Family’s Stories Contains Essays on Growing up with Parents Who Garden (Book Cover Design by Victoria Nicks, Photo Credits – Chris Eirschele, Harold Buchholz, Carol Cory and Albert Buchholz) My ebook has been out a month. This seems like a good time to share it here for my Stay Gardening followers in case you [...]

Bearded iris like drier soil conditions. The main issue of bearded types is iris border, which is aggrevated by too moist conditions and dead plant material not cleaned up. Photo credit Chris Eirschele. A simple garden strategy, which saves time and money but is often ignored, is to grow plants in the right place the first time planted.  N [...]

In early 2000, I met a man at the VA hospital in Woods, Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.  He forever changed my resolve about gardening. I was there at the invitation of a nurse who was teaching a nutrition class on how to cook with herbs.  My purpose was to offer ideas on how to grow herbs in limited, albeit, nontraditional garden spaces. While I [...]