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More Stories by Mary Beth Breckenrige
- Readers offer strategies for deterring deer
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Nature’s ways improve backyard gardening
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Book helps house hunters think logically
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Curved shower rod is tension-mounted
- Tell the ‘Does It Work?’ team what you think about products
- Home and garden happenings — week of May 18
- Ask Mary Beth: Ridding ornamental grass of weeds
- Vegetable and fruit plant families
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School garden will teach healthy eating from the ground up
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Steal this idea! Decorating inspiration from Designer ShowHouse 2013
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Garden featured on Bath home tour
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Bag clip closes large sacks
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Book covers upholstery basics
- Home and garden happenings — week of May 11
- Tour details
Looking for a community garden? Check it out
Information on community gardens is trickling in.
A few weeks ago, we put out a call to gardens in our area to share details with Beacon Journal readers. Our intention was to help gardens publicize the availability of plots and help would-be gardeners find a place to grow food.
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Freeze tonight could damage some blooms
Just when it seemed summer had made an early entrance, nature is sending a freeze tonight to remind us it's still spring.
That could put an end to some of the seasonal color we've been enjoying. Plants in flower may see their blossoms ruined, particularly more tender plants such as magnolias.
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YouthBuild changes house, lives
Young participants in YouthBuild are changing their lives as they improve a house:
http://www.ohio.com/lifestyle/breckenridge/youthbuild-program-improves-house-lives-1.269535
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Knitting as empowerment
In honor of Women's History Month, an interesting (and short) video on how knitting has empowered women.
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A tasty twist on a hanging basket
This hanging basket is good enough to eat.
Contributor Debbie Teashon tells how to make a hanging salad garden on the website Rainy Side Gardeners. What an attractive, space-saving way to grow your own salad greens.
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Community gardens invited to publicize
Are you involved in running a community garden? Looking for a plot in a community garden where you can grow your own food this summer?
The Beacon Journal is trying to put gardens and gardeners together.
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What signs of spring are you seeing?
Jim Chatfield writes this weekend that his crocuses are blooming already. My daffodils have been partway up for weeks. What signs of spring are you seeing in your yard?
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