By FAYE MAHAFFEY fhmgarden@gmail.com This year a “first” has happened at the Mahaffey’s. Instead of tackling the chore of tossing hedge apples over into the tree line (last year I tossed around 750), I have thrown over a mere three! What has happened to all those hedge apples this year? I have asked several friends […]
Helpline questions become very interesting and sometimes challenging this time of the year. I spent a day at the OSUE Brown County Office this past week and studied a variety of plants, leaves and bugs. A small plastic container revealed a very familiar sight to me – curled up Millipedes! Every few years we witness what […]
Do you have a “small” gardener in your family? Have you begun to teach these young gardeners that the only thing truly better than stopping to smell the flowers is stopping to smell the flowers that they’ve planted themselves? Fast Sprouters include: Zinnias, Marigolds, Cosmos and Nasturtium. These annuals will grow from about 6 inches tall […]
It started as a seed of an idea by Ohio Community Media group publisher Pam Stricker. Last December, all of our newspapers under her leadership met to discuss this idea — a monthly farming and agriculture publication aimed at the farmers and those who serve their needs in our southern Ohio region. It would be […]