One of my sustainability goals is to feed my chickens a significant portion of their daily rations from my garden. They have lots of time to free range and forage for fresh food, but I do give them some organic chicken feed daily. This food (in pellet form) is processed, pricey and ...
If I told you you have hundreds of creatures in your garden, each of whom had 27,000 teeth, you might opt to stay indoors. I know my garden has just that, yet I bravely work there daily. I take comfort in the fact that I know I can outrun these toothy monsters, and also from the fact ...
By David P. Davis Newsroom@DominionPost.com This article is dedicated to my mom, Sarah Davis, who passed away this week at 94. Sarah was a true lover of plants and gardening to the end. Daylilies are perennial plants in the genus Hemerocallis and are not in the lily family, although ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com KINGWOOD — The family of the late Mildred Thornton Lindley is honoring and remembering Mildred through the creation of a memorial garden at Mon Health Preston Memorial Hospital in Kingwood. Her memorial garden will be dedicated at 10 a.m. July 6. The ...
By David P. Davis Newsroom@DominionPost.com Every year at the West Virginia Botanic Gardens, 1061 Tyrone Road, gardens are expanded, flower beds are refreshed and new plantings are established. Our new pollinator garden beds have added thousands of blooms to the WVBG. ...
You don’t have to mow, I’ll scythe, I said to my father. He has taken me at my word, and our gardens and paths are now more overgrown than usual. It is not that I tired of scything or haven’t gotten to it. I’m still a committed scyther, and do it regularly. The problem is ...