I guess it really doesn’t matter how long you plan to live at the house and the garden that you are a steward of now. Even if you jump from place to place every two or three years, it doesn’t hurt to keep records of what you’ve done in your garden. It’s nice to keep up with the weather trends, the frost dates, the cool temperatures in the spring time and the type plants that you’ve used and what kind of luck you had with them. It’s nice to keep up with where you bought those plants, how much...

Moving into May is always somewhat of a relief to me. It’s the time of year that you know for sure that It’s time to find those heat tolerant plants for your yard, especially those that you change out annually. March is always crazy with the temperatures going way up and way down, but mostly just enough to tempt you into your garden. April never seems stable as far as temperatures and rainfall to me. As most Aprils go we had some temperatures in the low 40s at night and we have seen 90°. The...

I will never forget the day in 1973 or 74 that my father came home to tell us that we were leaving our house in a neighborhood in Jackson and headed to what used to be the country out in Madison County. My parents found some acreage and a fixer-upper off of Highway 51 so we could start living some dreams. We were into horses. This would make it way easier than keeping them at a barn in Jackson. My parents also wanted to start their second garden Center where they believed Jackson was growing...