Houseplant hospital
How to keep your plants alive over the winter By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Winter is peak mortality season for desk cactuses and bathroom ferns, which suddenly seem to brown and wilt when the weather...
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Slug Tales From Zone 6: Understanding garden soil
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Dirt is dirt — or is it? Anyone who’s tried to garden in North Idaho knows that our soil varies from bad to worse in most areas. My yard...
Dirt-y secrets: in the thick of it
By Ranel Hanson Reader Columnist Hooray for August! Sun, a warm lake, berries and flowers everywhere — hooray! Little brown frogs, grasshoppers that look like butterflies when they fly, butterflies, bees of all kinds,...
