gardening

The Waseca Garden Club hosts a Garden Walk this Sunday rain or shine from 1-5PM. All locations are free and open to the public. Representatives of the event are scheduled to join us on today's KDHL AM Minnesota program beginning at 9:30AM...

The Steele County 4-H and Master Gardeners once again are offering the One Step Garden for young people to learn about vegetables and gardening. The garden is near the east entrance of the Owatonna Hy-Vee. Youngsters meet each Thursday now through August 4 from 10-11:30AM...

My wife and now my daughter have developed an interest in flowers. I still stick to veggies. Any old thing no longer serving its purpose is in danger of getting a hole punched in its bottom and then filled with flowers. Hence, I always try to appear active useful when my wife is nearby...

It's been a bit too cold to put any plants out in the garden. We have been harvesting rhubarb for about a week, though. The potatoes have been in for three weeks and I've got lettuce and carrot seeds in. We are getting close. The Steele County Community Gardening Association is once again providing plots for rent...

I was happy when we bought our house so I could have plants inside and outside. When I moved into my first apartment, my aunt gave me a plant that is still going strong today. A few years ago, it grew more like a vine toward the window, and for the first time purple flowers blossomed...

My husband and I drink coffee maybe once or twice a week, so not very often. And during the summer, we compost the grounds. Looking through my "Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things" book, I found other uses for coffee grounds.  Before cleaning the ashes out of a fireplace, put wet coffee grounds on them ... Read More ...