Paul Schnare
featuresDecember 28
Thank you, Cape GirardeauThank you Cape Girardeau. This is probably the hardest column I have ever had to write because it will be my last. It is not about gardening, but it is about you, members of this community who have made my career in gardening so memorable and for the support of my ...
featuresNovember 30
Winter can be hard on outdoor plants; there is a solutionBrrrr!!!!! It's cold outside, or at least it seems that way to me. My wife tells me I am a "Wooooooos" when it comes to cold. I really don't like cold weather. I was thinking about cold weather the other day when I was looking at some landscape plants that not nati...
featuresNovember 2
The time is now to plant deciduous trees and shrubsJust before I started writing this column, I was outside. Ugh! It is overcast and cooling down. Rain is in the forecast. All of this weather information tells me winter is on its way. Brrrrrrr. Most gardeners are picking the last of the vegetables out of the garden...
featuresOctober 5
Seed your cool season lawnI would have normally suggested to reade it is time to seed your cool season (bluegrass, fescue, and rye) lawns when I wrote my last column four weeks ago. But because of the lack of moisture for a long time, our local soils were developing a lot of cracks in them ...
featuresSeptember 7
Mums the word: How to plant your chrysanthemumsThis has been a crazy weather year. This spring produced more rainfall than I can remember. The total amount of rainfall is debatable. I have not looked at actual weather data, but I know my windshield wipers had to be replaced. Now that it is beginning to dry up, ...
featuresAugust 17
Cool season lawn seedingIt is that time of year to think about cool season lawn seeding. This is something that needs to be done if you are finding a lot of bare spots in your lawn. If you find those bare spots, now is the time to get busy. If you have just a few spots in your lawn that a...
featuresJuly 13
Wet, wet, wet: Gardeners getting a late start; lawns full of weedsIf you didn't realize it, this has been an extremely wet year. Many vegetable gardeners are just now beginning to get into their gardens to plant both row crops such as corn and beans and plant crops such as tomatoes. One gardener told me he didn't think he was goi...
featuresMay 18
Gardening tips for soil when it rains too muchI don't know about you, but I am tired of rain. (Don't tell anybody that, because it may haunt me in the near future). Let me rephrase that. A lot of landscape plants are tired of the rain. Too much rain causes plants to suffer, unless of course we are talking abou...
featuresApril 20
Keeping Easter lilies in bloomChristians all across America will probably have one or more Easter lilies adorning the altar in their church on Sunday. Their beautiful white blooms remind us of the resurrection of Jesus on Easter morning and of the white gown that he wore when meeting with his d...LOAD MORE
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