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Let’s Garden in September, Part 1

(Publisher’s note: This is part one of a two part column. ) By Jennifer Fairfield, owner of the Garden Mill Mother Nature sure has a sense of humor. Immediately after I said, in last month’s newsletter, that the main thing … Read more

Let’s Garden In August, Part 2

By Jennifer Fairfield  Flowers: Diseases are also a problem for flower gardens, and keeping them from getting going is the best chance you have of controlling them. Planting disease resistant varieties when possible is the first step, but regular treatments … Read more

Let’s Garden in August, Part 1

By Jennifer Fairfield This month, the most important thing you can be doing in your yard and gardens is making sure that everything gets enough water. And I do mean everything. In addition, there are a few other things that … Read more

Let’s Garden in July, Part Two

By Jennifer Fairfield (Publisher’s note: Part One published yesterday.) In the vegetable garden: July is a great time to start new plants for late summer and fall harvest. You can direct seed Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower in the … Read more

Let’s Garden in July, Part One

By Jennifer Fairfield In the flower garden: July is garden pest time – not my favorite thing to have to deal with in my gardens. So far, the sawfly larva have been hard at work making my hardy hibiscus leaves … Read more

Let’s Get Gardening in June, Part 2

By Jennifer Fairfield (Publisher’s note: This is the second of a two-part column, Part one published yesterday.)  Flower Gardens: When deciding what flowers to add to your garden this year, consider ones that will attract beneficial insects. Some of our butterflies … Read more

Let’s Get Gardening in June

By Jennifer Fairfield (Publisher’s note: This is the first of a two-part column. The second part will run tomorrow.) The Garden Mill will celebrate the 10-year anniversary of my purchasing the store on June 29. I have no idea where … Read more

Let’s Get Gardening, Part 2

By Jennifer Fairfield (Publisher’s note: Part one of this column ran yesterday.) If you’re starting veggies from seed, now is the time to start pepper and tomato seeds indoors, so they will be ready to put out in your garden … Read more

Let’s Get Gardening, Part 1

By Jennifer Fairfield In spite of the weather the last week or so, there are definite signs of spring showing up all over – the snowdrops that come up every year in one yard I pass on my way to … Read more

Let’s Get Gardening

By Jennifer Fairfield, owner Garden Mill The National Weather Service says, “composites depict a strong warm signal” and “Probabilities of above normal precipitation are greater than 50 percent from southern Michigan to western areas of the Ohio Valley …” In … Read more

Let’s Plan For Gardening in February

By Jennifer Fairfield, owner of Garden Mill So, it looks like we might finally get a real snowstorm here in Southeast Michigan over the next couple of days. While we’re all getting ready for the big snow they’re promising, there … Read more

Let’s Get Gardening in January

By Jennifer Fairfield, owner the Garden Mill The Garden Mill will be closed for the entire month of January, and will reopen on Feb.1. While we’re closed, you can still shop the Online Store. It’s not actually that we won’t … Read more

Let’s Get Gardening in November, Part 2

By Jennifer Fairfield, owner of the Garden Mill  (Publisher’s note: Part 1 published yesterday.) Flowers: If you haven’t yet, it really is time to pull out any left-over summer annuals. They’re not going to last through the freezing temps the … Read more