Guest blog by Lorie Huston, DVM, who is a writer and blogger that speaks with authority on pet topics.    Dogs like Tucker depend on gardeners to keep their pets safe from plants pretty to look at but toxic to munch. Photo credit Lorie Huston, DVM A lush garden is a beauty to behold but it can hold many dangers for your pet. Some of thes [...]

Flowers blooming always look beautiful. Some may think that is what gardening is about. Photo credit Chris Eirschele. My Dad use to say that it took three years to get a garden where it should be.  I was intimately aware of my Dad’s type of gardening, so I understood what he meant.  Still there are a lot of qualifiers in that premise, [...]

When I was a little girl, each spring my Dad and I would race to see who would spot a robin first.  Even back in the 1960s, Wisconsin’s state bird was considered the first reliable sign that garden soil would be warming up soon. But it took moving to Ohio to experience this. Baby robins up close in my container garden space. My springti [...]