Master Gardener: Lawn care -- avoid a case of the crunchies
I just heard someone describe their lawn as “crunchy.” When you step on your lawn, how does it sound? If it makes noise, you’ve got some work to do. In a normal winter, we get enough rain and snow to sustain the grass during its dormant period, and no watering is needed.
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Triangle weather: A midwinter's spring
Winter's one-month birthday passed in Raleigh without an icicle, a snowflake or a day below freezing - great news if you sell popsicles, bad luck if you sell sleds.
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Take care mixing cats and houseplants
Cats like houseplants, but houseplants don't like cats. Or, at least, cats don't do houseplants any good. Take my ponytail palm, for example. My cat is an outdoor cat, but I know that if she came indoors, what a grand time she would have jabbing
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Asheville gardening column: February is good time to focus on lawn care
If you already have that spring gardening itch, one thing you can do in February is to be thinking about spring lawn care. The vast majority of us in Western North Carolina are growing cool season grasses, primarily varieties of fescue and bluegrass.
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