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That's a great idea! Do you think I can still do that this year?

Ann, I am in north-central Ohio, I am not really sure where in Zone 5 that is. We don't have a lot of snow cover, it comes in spurts here. I would be happy to mulch with sand if that would help. What do you mean by the drip-line?

Thank you! I will do that!

I am in zone 5. I haven't pruned at all, I didn't think they were large enough to prune (when do you start to prune? My trees are dwarf stock and are about 6' tall at the very tip-top). All I do for fertilizer is dump some composted chicken manure around the base of the tree a few times a...

Oh my goodness, I didn't realize that lavender wasn't cold hardy! I have always planted it as a perennial and I have had trouble with it coming back. I am zone 5-maybe that is why :rolleyes:

I planted some lavender in front of my house last year. It was vigorous and grew into a pretty large patch. I did not cut it back in the fall because I did that to some lavender before and it killed it, so I just left it alone. This spring it is blooming on the old wood, but not fully. It...

Dixie, It's not a pollintation issue, it is a flowering issue! I have had fruit when they flowered, but why would they not flower at all? Also, I have to add that I noticed other fruit trees in my area flowering, so I don't think it was a frost/freeze issue, though I did consider that. My...

That is great! However, I prefer to let my chickens have a lot of room to roam, and in order get any good concentration of manure on the ground they would have to be in pretty close quarters. It's kind of like using a chicken tractor for preparing a garden bed. It's good in theory, but in...

I am a lazy gardener, and I tried something last fall that I am thrilled to report on as a success! I like to expand my garden a little bit each year, I do it by hand, double digging and I hate it. Last fall when I cleaned out the chicken coop (I only do a BIG clean twice a year) I spread all...

This is the third spring for our apple and pear trees. When we bought the trees several of them were flowering, and we even had a few baby apples that first year we planted them. Last year we had blooms, but only a few apples, and only one apple that we could eat in the fall. I thought...