Seed Starting & Gardening Tips
Dormant Spraying: A Winter To-Do That Pays Off in Spring
Winter may feel like downtime in the garden, but it's actually the perfect opportunity to protect your trees from pests and disease. Dormant spraying, applied after leaves drop but before buds swell, lets you target overwintering insects and fungal spores while beneficial pollinators are safely out of the picture. Horticultural oil smothers soft-bodied pests like aphids, scale, and mites hiding in bark, while liquid copper fungicide tackles diseases like peach leaf curl and fire blight. Apply on a dry day above 40°F, follow label directions carefully to avoid plant injury, and you'll be giving your trees a serious head start on a healthy growing season.
Sustainable Support for Your Garden
As summer peaks, even the most organized garden can start to buckle under the weight of its own abundance; Toppling tomatoes, flopping eggplants, and vines spilling everywhere. The fix is simple: compostable twine and trellis clips that prop up heavy fruits, guide climbers, and keep your harvest clean and accessible, all without adding plastic waste to your garden at the end of the season. From tying sunflowers to stakes ahead of late-summer winds, to creating slings for heavy melons and bundling herbs for drying, these small supports make a big difference in protecting both your plants and your harvest.