Mid-American Gardener: Dividing hostas, pruning lilacs, removing vines, and more
When IS the best time to divide a hosta?
Mid-American Gardener
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Answering Questions from Gardeners Across Mid-America - our panel of experts answer questions about lawn and garden care.
Mid-American Gardener: Best tomato practices, repelling small wildlife, mulch, and more
You have to repel the wildlife just to GET the tomatoes these days.
Mid-American Gardener: Planting pineapples, fire blight, crabapple suckers, and more
Can you really grow pineapple in Zone 5b?
Mid-American Gardener: Dandelions, ornamental grasses, bagworms, and more
What's a bagworm, anyway?
Mid-American Gardener: Transplanting rhubarb, avoiding vine borers, attracting pollinators, and more
Can you attract bees with white clover?
Mid-American Gardener: Pinching back mums, ground-dwelling bees, mothballs in the garden
What is mushroom compost and why use it?
Mid-American Gardener: Tomatoes, barbecue rosemary, butterfly bushes
Can eggshells really help grow better tomatoes?
Mid-American Gardener: Bleeding hearts, prayer plants, snow mold
What'sthat white web-like stuff on the grass?
Mid-American Gardener: Managing tall fescue grasses, burning ornamental grasses, Japanese maples
The color of Japanese maples is as beautiful in the spring as in the fall.
Mid-American Gardener: Japanese beetles, soil amendment, and much more
Little-known fact: Pumice stones can be used to amend clay-heavy soils.
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