[ad_1] By Kitti CooperSpecial to Gulf Coast Media Why should you think about your summer gardenduring our “winter”? In the sunny Deep South, where the weather can betough and the soil is different in every backyard,there is a simple trick for better gardens — amendingthe soil. This means adding dark compost and darkamendments of soil […]
[ad_1] In the mid-1900s, television programs, movies, and even display advertisements presented Americans as living in tidy, rectangular homes surrounded by straight-line foundation plantings with uniformly green, rectangular lawns. No weeds. It wasn’t an accurate depiction of the way people lived then, but it became the accepted standard by which gardens—and gardeners—were judged. Today, a […]