This past weekend we walked through our woods with temperatures more like March than January. Even though it was fun to see “green” during January, we can’t help but be a little worried with plants waking up in January. Below Gabby is exploring next to the bright green moss on the hillside. Since we live [...]
Leif’s article for this week’s Northfield News entitled Pruning Out Double Leaders appears in the Saturday, January 28th, edition in the Home & Garden Section of the paper. This picture shows the damage done to a tree after a windstorm has snapped off one of the double leaders in a tree. These two photos first [...]
Leif’s next article in his series about pruning for the Northfield News is titled How to Make Correct Pruning Cuts and will appear on January 21, 2006. The following pictures accompany the article in the News. Click photos to enlarge. This is an incorrect pruning cut. This is a correct pruning cut. This is an [...]
Leif’s new article for the January 14th, 2006, Northfield News is titled: Pruning trees: reasons why you need to prune. Check out Leif’s articles every weekend in the Saturday Northfield News in the Home and Garden Section (Sec. C) of the paper. Labels: Yard and Garden Notes by Leif Share this:ShareFacebookEmail
The mild weather with the appearance of the sun yesterday offered the perfect opportunity to prune the Oak trees in our meadow. Oak trees are one of the trees that you should avoid pruning during the growing season. Oak wilt is spread by the little black “picnic” bugs that may congregate on an open wound [...]
Last week, nine of us from Knecht’s Nurseries took part in the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association’s annual convention held at the Minneapolis Convention Center. There were three education packed days where our employees were able to attend seminars on landscaping, landscape design, info for garden centers and for business management. We took in seminars [...]
The tip for January would be to prepare. Prepare for the next gardening season. Are your garden tools sharpened and cleaned up for use this spring? How about your lawn mower? If you haven’t already sharpened the blade and cleaned it up, now is the time to spend a few minutes getting it ready. The [...]
Now is the time to really take a look at your winter landscape. Are there areas that offer some great winter color? Do you have areas that need some help? This photo shows the winterberry shrub which surrounds a flowering crabapple. The red berries of the winterberry offer bright red and gold/orange colors against the [...]
