Good Gardening

Typically, April Showers bring May vegetables, but this year keeping recently planted beds damp has been difficult. The dry air evaporates any water you put on before the seeds have time to germinate.

The sounds of spring have changed, and not because they need to. The mechanization of landscaping has removed the rake, broom, and hand lawnmower from our vocabulary, and replaced them with blowers, power mowers, and string trimmers.

Onions are a crop that give you a lot of options - in what you grow, and how you grow it.

Trees provide benefits above and beyond the fruit and rope swing tying sites a tree can provide.

Apparently, marketers think customers feel that drinking from a slender can will make them the same.

When it comes to pruning your fruit and ornamental trees, whatever you like to do is fine - almost.

You can enjoy pears for months if you're willing to branch out and plant a new variety or two - or three.

Spring is typically planting time, but right now may be a good time to think about things you want to grow next year.

Roasting and freezing tomatoes is an easy, drool-producing way to keep the summer bounty all the way until next year.

KLCC's John Fischer shares some thoughts on the need to let electrons take over as purveyors of the written word.

The mindset of "don't bother trying to change things that don't matter" will help you focus on the things that really matter when it comes to gardening.

John Fischer has some steps you can take to keep your house cooler, without using more energy, during our next heat wave.