http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces Birds eat your blueberries? Tomatoes turning black? Exchange practical gardening advice with other readers in our gardening blog. en-us shicks@ajc.com 2007-11-23T09:15:55-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Birds eat your blueberries? Tomatoes turning black? Exchange practical gardening advice with other readers in our gardening blog. http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/entries/2007/11/23/whats_the_best.html?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces It’s fall in North Georgia, so that means it’s time to rake leaves. On the day after Thanksgiving, that seems like a good chore to me: burn a few calories after Thursday’s eating overkill, make the yard look better …... 209081@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/ 2007-11-23T09:15:55-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/entries/2007/08/29/successful_gard.html?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces Now that the triple-digit temperatures have subsided temporarily, we want to know: did any of your gardens make it out alive? If you have a great-looking garden that shows little sign of weariness, how did you do it? Did you... 191561@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/ 2007-08-29T15:07:16-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/entries/2007/05/29/how_does_your_g.html?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces With all the strict restrictions on watering, how do you keep your garden alive? Do you have creative ways to come by water for your plants? What are they? We’re thirsting to know, and so are our readers!!... 169344@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/ Alert 2007-05-29T14:14:28-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/entries/2007/05/10/touring_for_ide.html?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces It’s garden-tour season, a time of year when visitors get inspired by cool new plants, hardscape ideas and plain old inspiration to get out and dig. What’s the neatest idea you’ve ever discovered on a garden tour? Or interesting plant?... 164613@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/ 2007-05-10T11:50:10-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/entries/2007/04/18/mater_matters.html?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces I’ve been CRAVING a fresh-tomato sandwich, which makes me want to run out and plant bunches of them. But every year, I fight the same enemies that many of you do — early blight, blossom end rot, wilt. What’s your... 158982@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/ 2007-04-18T11:31:03-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/entries/2007/04/02/one_spectacular.html?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces I don’t know about you, but I think this is the prettiest spring we’ve had in years for flowering trees. Cherries, dogwoods, redbuds — even those blasted nasty Bradford pears — are putting on quite a show these days. My... 149435@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/ 2007-04-02T11:48:45-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/entries/2007/03/13/what_cant_you_l.html?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces 143812@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/ 2007-03-13T16:54:45-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/entries/2007/02/21/tell_us_what_yo.html?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces 137965@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/ 2007-02-21T14:12:00-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/entries/2007/02/12/spring_is_comin.html?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces So the flower show got me totally into gardening again, although my great love is vegetable gardening. I dashed right out to my big garden up in the mountains and built a raised bed with my 6-year-olds as helpers. I... 134971@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/ 2007-02-12T11:41:15-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/entries/2007/01/31/southeastern_fl.html?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces With the Southeastern Flower Show coming up next week at the Georgia World Congress Center, can spring be far behind? We are wondering what to look for at the market place area next week—the next great tool we’ll all wish... 131294@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/ 2007-01-31T14:34:31-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/entries/2007/01/24/more_on_the_fin.html?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces I spoke with Charlie Seabrook, our wonderful Sunday Wild Georgia columnist. He says the eye disease among finches was first noted back in the early ’90s. It’s called mycoplasmal conjunctivitis and affects house finches in the eastern part of the... 129218@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/ 2007-01-24T17:29:50-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/entries/2007/01/24/finches_at_feed.html?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces A birdwatcher with a feeder in Alpharetta says she has seen both red and gold finches at her feeder that seem to have an eye infection. First one eye goes, then the other and the bird winds up blind. This... 129110@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/ 2007-01-24T12:02:07-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/entries/2007/01/23/brrrrr_whats_an.html?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces The unseasonably warm late fall and early winter has brought out all kinds of spring-blooming plants WAY too early. Daffodils, quince, flowering apricot, ornamental cherries, winter honeysuckle have all been spotted in Atlanta gardeners since Thanksgiving! Many of these plants... 128756@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/ 2007-01-23T14:44:01-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/entries/2007/01/18/flower_show_tim.html?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces 127232@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/ 2007-01-18T17:03:34-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/entries/2007/01/08/this_just_in.html?cxntfid=blogs_spading_spaces Seed and plant catalogs are arriving in the mail daily. Some go a little crazy touting the “newest” and the “best,” the most deer restistant, the most pest-resistant, the most drought resistant. What are you finding that’s truly new and... 124028@http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/garden/ 2007-01-08T12:24:02-05:00