Nuts Over Spring Cleanup

Gardener's Corner, Spring Cleanup, Uncategorized

               If you are like us, enjoy the sounds and smells of springtime, you are probably hard at work out there cleaning up your yard. One of my family members mentioned to me recently, that they thought that the abundance of acorns on the ground, meant it...

”Mulch is Mulch”

Gardener's Corner, Uncategorized

Let me be honest, all mulch is not created equal. There, I said it. Do any of the readers of this blog really appreciate the smell of fresh mulch in the springtime as much as I do? To me, spring doesn’t officially start until I can smell the first load of Pine Bark...

Spring Blooming Bulbs!

Gardener's Corner

Spring is finally here on Cape Cod!! As many of us Cape Codder’s will agree, we seem to go from fall to winter, winter to late winter, then late winter to summer. Springtime here on Cape can be tough weather-wise, but if you look around, Mother Nature has started...

Organic or Synthetic?

Gardener's Corner

Organic or Synthetic? Fertilizers come in many shapes and forms. You have your organic methods, which can be quite smelly and displeasing to work with, or you have your “over the counter” fertilizers that have numbers on them that seem way too scientific...

Gardener’s Corner Week 4

Gardener's Corner

True Or False?  THE POPPY IS A SYMBOL OF MEMORIAL DAY? TRUE: In the battlefields of Europe, the red field poppy was one of the first plants to reappear. The seeds from the common red poppy were scattered in the wind lying dormant until germinating when the ground was...