Please take the time to visit my Milwaukee Garden Center to find information and helpful tips that will assist you on your landscaping projects. All the prices are listed for all my trees so this will help you to make your price … Excerpt from: 5 Key Items to add to your Landscape that will Bring Color and …

Tips When Design Landscaping A New Home and Garden . at 7:28 AM. There are several ways to improve the landscaping around your home. Some people fear that to improve their landscape design well, they need to hire landscape architects and … Read the original post: Tips When Design Landscaping A New Home and Garden | Home Magazine

(above image by Paul Parent Garden Club) Good gardening friend Paul Parent of the Paul Parent Garden Club ( http://www.paulparent.com/ /) sends out a great newsletter every week with pertinent gardening topics. I encourage you to go to his website to sign up for his newsletter. Paul can also be heard every Sunday morning from 6 AM to 10 AM at his website or at WBACH (104.7 FM) every Sunday morning...

(above image from Paul Parent Garden Club) Good gardening friend Paul Parent of the Paul Parent Garden Club ( http://www.paulparent.com/ /) sends out a great newsletter every week with pertinent gardening topics. I encourage you to go to his website to sign up for his newsletter. Paul can also be heard every Sunday morning from 6 AM to 10 AM at his website or at WBACH (104.7 FM) every Sunday morning...

Hello again, Melissa and Mary of Skillin’s Falmouth have spent a great deal of time last fall and through this past winter growing container vegetables. And of course in Maine that means mostly growing container vegetables both indoors and outdoors! They have been very pleased by their experience and have learned a lot! Now we are ready to pass on what they have learned to you. The following...

However, not all landscapes are created equal; in fact many landscapes are far from green. There is proven data that (many) residential landscapes account for 30-70% of a households’ water consumption. The amount of fertilizers, pesticides, … ASLA has many resources on residential design, from tips on hiring a landscape architect and designer, to a variety of sustainability resources. You...

From the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service: Late blight devastated crops in 2009 Many farmers and gardeners in Maine saw late blight on their potatoes and tomatoes for the first time in 2009 and experienced firsthand the amount and speed of crop destruction that it can cause. Introduction and widespread distribution of the late blight pathogen into Maine occurred during late June and...

Hello again, Following is a nice introduction article about herb gardening that we picked up from http://www.articlerumble.com/an-introduction-to-herbs-and-herb-gardening.htm . We have a great selection of herbs on hand and as we head into outdoor gardening for Spring 2010 I think the timing is great for this article: “Herbs go way back to the time of the ancient Egyptians and Chinese. There...

Hello again, I came across this article at MuddyFingernail , one of many sites we follow at www.twitter.com/skillins . MuddyFingernail is often a great place to find easy to read and follow articles about gardening. This one fits the bill and is called Tips For Growing Celery in Your Home Vegetable Garden . The writer is Michael Podlesny. I have included a few comments in italics. “By itself,...

Hello again, The purpose of this post is to relay a few “quick hit” garden tips to you through the month of April . Some of these tips will be garden tasks I am doing myself (although I wish there were more of those. I am here at Skillin’s so much, my own yard and garden falls quite behind this time of year!), some of these tips will be quick pieces of advice we are giving to customers,...