Can you believe it is August?  Where has this year gone?  Time just seems to fly by anymore.  The positive part?  Football season is rapidly approaching!! And hopefully bringing with it cooler days and nights. But for now, it is still Sweaty, Sunshiny and Hot! And speaking of positive parts, your garden should be in full bounty mode by now. Your zucchinis, tomatoes and cucumbers are plotting a take-over of the rest of your garden plants, and your peppers and squash are enthusiastically growing closer and closer to each other.  Some plants suddenly may appear tired and a bit sunburnt....

July!  It’s the month for full-swing summer activities! It is also the month that your garden is producing all the delicious produce that you carefully planted a few months back.   People are taking vacations and just having a good time.  It is also the month that we celebrate our great nation’s independence!  For those of you who have a garden and purchased flowers, it is a time to do some basic upkeep.  Now is the time to remove the faded blooms from your spring perennials flowers.  When you do this, you make your plants look better and you prevent them...

The  annual  Mother’s Day sale last month at the Marshall County Co-op was as usual a huge success!!!  The week-long event brings out hundreds of people ready to get their garden going, beautify their home and porches with beautiful flowers, plant some landscaping trees or fruit trees, or to just give their home some better curb appeal with some ornamental shrubs,   flowers and more!  I attended this event, and I was so impressed how the employees all worked together to make your experience there smooth and satisfying!   From the minute you pull in, you have someone helping you find a...