How To’s

End of Season Gardening Checklist

As the gardening season winds down, it's time to prepare your garden for the transition to fall. This gardening checklist will help you tackle essential late-season tasks to ensure your plants thrive through winter and [...]

September 2, 2025|

Pest Control in the Garden

Beetles, Slugs, and Powdery Mildew, Oh My! Pest and disease control in the garden can be a very difficult and frustrating task for many people. There is nothing worse than seeing a problem arise on your favorite plant [...]

July 25, 2024|

How to Plant a Pollinator Garden

Planting for Pollinators: A Garden that Gives Back If you’re looking for a garden that’s not only beautiful but meaningful, planting for pollinators is the way to go. Bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, hummingbirds—they all play a vital role in [...]

June 19, 2023|

Improving your Soil with Compost

Is Your Soil Holding Your Garden Back? If your flowers aren't blooming like they should, your vegetables are underperforming, or your plants just look a little tired, your soil might be the culprit. The good news is it's [...]

May 3, 2022|

What Kind of Sun Does my Yard Get?

Four Basic Types of Sun Exposure Learning how to decipher the terminology on plant tags can be a challenge and translating it into choices that work for your yard can prove just as hard.  When it comes to the amount [...]

June 8, 2020|

Amaryllis Care: The Secret to Rebloom

Amaryllis bulbs are known for their simple beauty and for the joy of the big reveal... We bring the humble bulbs into our homes and a few days later we get to behold the splendor of their big blooms. And [...]

January 29, 2020|

Tackle Fall Mole Troubles

You may have made it all summer without too much trouble but fall has brought a maze of grassy mounds around the yard. Many customers have been in looking for ways to fight the moles trying to do serious damage [...]

September 19, 2019|

August Lawn Care – Seeding and Crabgrass

Believe it or not, mid-August through mid-September is the ideal time for lawn seeding in the Midwest. If you are looking to start a new lawn or reseed a few sections now is the time to do it for the [...]

August 18, 2019|

Grow Native

If you are looking to add a few plants to your foundation plantings or even adding a new garden now is the time to consider native plants. Native plants have spent all of their time thriving in Minnesota's growing conditions [...]

May 15, 2019|