KRAUTTER’S KORNER NEWSLETTER – JUNE 2016
June is an important month for gardening and is one of the major planting months of the year. Each weekend affords another chance to add color to your garden. Beautiful
PLANTING YOUR POTS AND CONTAINERS
My parents spurred the movement way back in the fifties of combination plantings in decorative pots to place around decks, terraces and front entrance. Back then traditional plantings of geraniums
DON’T LET YOUR SCHOOL INSTALL ARTIFICIAL TURF
It’s tempting for school officials to switch their playing fields over to artificial turf. The artificial turf manufactures point out all the advantages of doing so. They have salesmen who
GROW GREAT PLANTS
The best plants are grown organically. May is the month when more plants are planted or transplanted in the garden than in any other month of the year. The homeowner
GROW GREAT PLANTS
The best plants are grown organically. May is the month when more plants are planted or transplanted in the garden than in any other month of the year. The homeowner
ANNUAL BLUEGRASS
Annual bluegrass shows its ugly traits in lawns in early spring when it develops numerous and prolific seed heads. This causes a spotty, disturbing light green color mixed into your
EARTH DAY
Earth day always takes place on April 22nd and was started by a Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson. It went international in 1990 and has become the largest secular Holiday in the
TRANSPLANTING
Transplanting for the gardener means moving a plant from one location to another. In the springtime many of us germinate seeds to be planted outdoors. As they germinate and grow
COMPOSTING IS KEY TO BUILDING SUSTAINABLE GARDENS
It is a crime to place our vegetable wastes into the garbage cans for incinerating along with the rest of our trash. By doing so we are going against Nature.
The Advantage of Organically Grown Bedding Plants
By Al Krautter Most greenhouse operations have been taught to use peat-lite mixes shipped to them in bags to grow their plants. This is followed with recommendations of steady applications
