The Most Fun You Can Have With Your Bibs On!
The damage you see in the above photo is called Vertcillium Wilt. Verticillium wilt attacks all kinds of plants, usually with devastating results. I’ve had it attack at least three if not four of my pretty mature Japanese maples. Verticillium Wilt is a soil borne, fungal type of disease that affects the plants ability to… Click here to read more…
No matter what kind of work you are doing in your yard or in your backyard nursery it’s always nice to have an easy way to move things around. Our biggest challenge at Mike’s Plant Farm is being about to safely move our freshly potted plants from the potting area to the area in the… Click here to read more…
Why would you need an underground root cellar? An underground root cellar can provide you a place to store plants, or plant bulbs, anything that you want to protect from freezing. I build mine to store rare Japanese maples that I’d get shipped in during the winter months but couldn’t plant out until spring. One… Click here to read more…
The current images on this page are not great because I took them of plants growing wild in a very heavily wooded area on my property. But I will explain why I decided to use them. Years ago when I first started landscaping houses in 1979 one of my favorite go to plants, an evergreen… Click here to read more…
Silver Dollar Hydrangea is an awesome hydrangea, smaller in size, yet a prolific bloomer. This plant is a sport of the P.G. Hydrangea which has been a staple in landscapes for more years than you can remember. Today several different types of hydrangeas are used to create into tree hydrangeas but I believe P.G. was… Click here to read more…
I get this question a lot . . . “Mike, how in the world do you get rid of Yucca?” Yucca have roots that go really deep into the ground so when you dig them out it’s unlikely that you are going to get all of the roots and new plants will sprout up from… Click here to read more…
I was sitting out on the front porch admiring the Impatiens that Pam and I planted. What a blast of color! Then I thought about what I feed them. Before I get into that, let’s do a fertilizer crash course. On a bag of fertilizer you will see three numbers like 12-12-12 or 18-6-4 or… Click here to read more…
A Tiller/Cultivator this is cordless? Yep! Mantis has done it again. I need to tell you this. I own and have owned for many years a Mantis 2-cycle Tiller/Cultivator and I love it. I use it for all kinds of things. But . . . it’s 2-cycle. That’s fine by me because I keep 2-cycle… Click here to read more…
Many of you know that I have “A History with Mantis Tillers”. First falling in love with the 2 cycle model which I’ve been using and bragging about for years. But recently Mantis has come out with two new models, an Electric Tiller/Cultivator and a Cordless Tiller/Cultivator. Let’s take a look at the electric model…. Click here to read more…
My neighbor Richard is awesome and he let me use his garden for this presentation. Last fall I helped Richard pack his garden with donkey manure and other compost from my compost pile. We put at least two or three ton of manure and compost into his garden. Then I tilled it in with the… Click here to read more…
