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Managing Moles, Voles, and Mice

Most gardeners think of moles when they notice that some critter is tunneling under their yard or garden. However, when plants and bulbs start disappearing, moles have nothing to do with it. Moles are insectivores, which means they only eat bugs, grubs and worms.

Help! My boxwood is turning ? Orange?
We recently received an interesting question on our discussion board: I'm curious to know what has caused the leaves on some of my boxwoods to turn orange during the past two months. Here's a snippet of the answer I wrote out to him: "If exposed to full sun and frequent frost and wind, the foliage [...]

Such a Strange Winter
What a strange winter we are having this year! Warm and wet, then colder and dry. Mother Nature can't seem to make up her mind. Personally, I've been waiting all winter for a nice snow storm. Even while we were in Vermont over Christmas and New Year's, there were just a few snow showers ? [...]

Heirloom Vegetables ? Oldies but Goodies!
It's January and that means it's garden planning time. At our house January means vegetable garden planning time because this is when all our vegetable seed catalogs begin to arrive in the mail. Saturday mornings in January are often spent browsing through these over a steaming cup of coffee or two. This year we are [...]

Moss ? Why is it in my yard?
Yesterday I received this question on our Viette discussion board: Moss is taking over the yard and choking out the grass. Hmmm, this sounds familiar! Much of my lawn is more moss covered than grass covered. The thing is that moss doesn't really choke out the grass but rather it slowly creeps in and thrives [...]