Dany Says: Edible Evergreens Add Fun & Flavor

  It’s common knowledge evergreen shrubs are a key component in landscapes. Beautiful landscapes almost always have some element of evergreen shrubs, they keep it consistent. One thing to really be creative with and maybe think about doing is using edible plants as evergreen shrubs. There’s two really great berry makers that I’m going to […]

Dany Says: Organic Pest Control

  When it comes to maintaining your space, kind of using natural methods and a soil first mentality, horticultural molasses can be a huge tool. Insects hate it. Aphids, mealybugs, thrips, all these insects that are such big pests really don’t like the smell of it, and if it gets on their bodies, they will […]

Dany Says: Veggie Garden Soil Repair

  I want to share a great maintenance and recovery tool for vegetable beds, and simply it’s growing legumes. Green beans, summer peas, snap peas, black beans, all these things make very good nitrogen fixers. They’re legumes. Any time you’re doing a brand new bed or trying to resuscitate a bed that maybe has been […]

Dany Says: Practice Intelligent Irrigation

  Two common mistakes people make with irrigation and their irrigation systems is, one is they run it too long. They put too much water out. Almost universally any time of the year, you can cut back your irrigation. A good thing to do is to know what kind of plants you’ve got and just […]

Dany Says: Roses Are Fruit Plants

  A common berry shrub that’s in the landscape are roses. Roses are fruit plants. You may not have thought of them that way but the rose hip that comes after a bloom is a piece of fruit. They are related to apples. And that’s why we deadhead. We deadhead to remove that fruit. Deadheading […]

Dany Says: Why Home Composting Is Smart

  A lot of people try to make compost at home, which is totally great. Compost at home is a great way to reduce waste, not send as much stuff to landfill, and really get a pretty good quality product at the end of it. Compost, by definition, is a product that’s been above 131 […]

Dany Says: Why Mulching Matters

  It’s very important to mulch your trees and your shrubs. There’s three soil conditions that can be simply avoided by mulching. One is drying out and becoming like a desert. The other is having sitting puddles all the time. And the last one is diversity of soil life. All of those things are really […]