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Links to hundreds of garden resources and articles Glenn Bronner, professional groundskeeper, writes about general garden topics,his urban and woodland gardens, what's blooming, and presents a photo gallery of garden ideas
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Great Weather For Fall Cleanup
The weather has been great all week in Chicago for gardeners to get out and do some fall cleanup. the weather has been averaging about 10 degrees above normal and is a great boost over earlier this fall. We have cut back all the perennials in one of...
Sprucing Up A Your Garden In Summer
In the middle of summer the garden does not always show at it’s best. A quick way to fix this is to do some summer maintenance. Early blooming perennials such as bleeding heart are fading out. Simply cut back the foliage and mulch the area . Th...
This Week At The Urban Garden
This week at the urban garden we are focusing on weeding beds and mulching. Along with the weeding of course we are cutting back the perennials that have already bloomed mostly dead heading them . It is important to clean up the dead flowers so that ...
Tuesday March 10,2009
Tuesday March 10,2009 Yesterday was a great day for getting the planting beds cleaned. The weather cooperated and the front entrance beds look so much better with all the winter debris cleaned out. The perennials look like they overwintered well and ...
A Glimmer Of Spring!
Yesterday was a wonderful day at the urban garden. The temperature was in the upper sixties and it was very sunny. Days like these are as welcome as Indian Summer days are in late Autumn. They are special as the give you a glimmer of great weather in...
The Urban Garden November 08
Well here we are in November and already and things are starting to wind down at the urban garden for the year. Yesterday after noon it was 26 degrees at 6:00 and this morning it is 30 degrees at 3:00 the temperature some how or the other goes up her...
Spring Planting At The Urban Garden
The weather has finally broken and started pushing us to get a move on at the urban garden. Warm temperatures and some rain will mean a good chance we will be mowing next week. Yesterday the irrigation contractor came out and charged the 6 systems we...
Watching The Weather And Running Like Crazy
This week we will be running like crazy here at the Urban Garden. The weatherman has promised good weather all week and we need to take advantage of every minute we can. While I am not sure that we will be finished catching up by the end of the week ...
