Gardening Tips: Mid-summer gardening

August marks the middle of our gardening season as well as midsummer and this year I feel like we have already experienced a legitimate summer! July 2010 was one of the warmest on record in our region and most vegetable gardens are at peak production. This is actually a good time to plant some seeds for fall season harvests of lettuce, spinach, beets, radishes and assorted other salad greens. I ...

Gardening season is here have fun

June is here and gardening season is rolling along. Here are a few gardening tidbits for the season Q. What's your favorite thing to plant? Annuals they are a quick long lasting color for the whole summer and you can change them up the next year.

Your 2010 summer gardening to-do list

Is much gardening getting done this summer? Not much, I'd say, thanks to miserably hot and humid weather that has dominated the Piedmont since early June. That's a long time to be without the stimulation of planting and tending.

Practical meets pretty: Container gardening for beauty and bounty

(ARA) - Container gardening is a great alternative for people who don't have the time or space for a full garden or flowerbed. Often, however, container gardeners may feel they have to choose between beauty and practicality. When you can only plant so many containers, what do you fill them with - flowers or veggies?

Gardening author Eddison to speak Sunday at library in Roxbury

Gardening author Sydney Eddison and illustrator Kimberly Day Proctor will explain "How to Garden Wiser as You Grow Older" Sunday at 3 p.m. at Minor Memorial Library , 23 South St., Roxbury.