Garden & Farm

'TIS THE SEASON

Milton Garden Club to sell evergreens at museum Dec. 14

6 years ago
The Milton Garden Club announced its venue for the 30th Annual Milton Holly Festival will be the...

Farmers back on fields to harvest soybeans

6 years ago

Delaware Farm Bureau supports food bank backpack...

6 years ago
The Delaware Farm Bureau Foundation recently presented a check for $5,856 to the Food Bank of...

Lewes Community Garden seeks work day volunteers Nov...

6 years ago
Lewes Community Garden organizers are seeking volunteers to assist with a bed build and cleanup day...

Millsboro Garden Club seeks new members Nov. 13

6 years ago
In an effort to recruit new members, the Millsboro Garden Club is changing its monthly meeting time...

Be sure to water windowsill plants regularly

Paul Barbano
6 years ago
Windows let the gardener bring the outdoors indoors. Light powers all plant growth, and indoor...

Deanna’s donates funds to Lewes in Bloom

6 years ago
Deanna’s of Second Street in Lewes has donated funds for the restoration of the garden located by...

Soybean research grant applications due Dec. 15

6 years ago
Researchers are encouraged to apply to the Delaware Soybean Board to conduct soybean research...

Agtech company BMP Logic expands to Delaware

6 years ago
Agtech company BMP Logic has expanded to Delaware, Tennessee and Missouri. "While this is new...

Cut back on watering Christmas cactus during late fall

Paul Barbano
6 years ago
It is autumn, and darkness befalls the northern hemisphere. Our fear of things that go bump in the...

Delaware Botanic Gardens hosting family days in...

6 years ago
Delaware Botanic Gardens President Raymond Sander announced that children ages 6 to 17 will be...

Order handcrafted wreaths from Maine through Nov. 15

6 years ago
Continuing a Lewes tradition, Lewes in Bloom is again selling live wreaths for the holiday season...

Volunteer Gene Carlisle donates $25K for ag museum...

6 years ago
The Delaware Agricultural Museum’s farm-to-table dinner was a huge success with a sold-out crowd of...

Sussex County Farm Bureau presents awards

6 years ago
At its annual banquet held in Memorial Fire Hall in Slaughter Beach, the Sussex County Farm Bureau...

Keep your Baseball Bat Sansevieria in bright light

Paul Barbano
6 years ago
In the garden we often try for a home run, but end up striking out. Strike in baseball originally...

Volunteers needed to plant pollinator garden in...

6 years ago
The Delaware Native Plant Society is seeking volunteers to assist with work in the native plant...

Ag producers can enroll in risk and price loss...

6 years ago
Agricultural producers can now enroll in the Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage...

Bay Country Figure Skating Club mums sale a success

6 years ago
Bay Country Figure Skating Club of Harrington’s annual fall mums fundraiser netted $700 to help pay...

Wharton’s festival celebrates fall

Steven Billups
6 years ago
Wharton's Garden Center in Rehoboth held its 4th Annual Fall Fest Oct. 13. The event was a...
Whartons Fall Fest

Resurrection Fern is a survivor

Paul Barbano
6 years ago
Hair salons pride themselves on quirky names, from “Shear Lock Combs” and “Julius Scissor” to the...

Lewes Community Garden shares its harvest with...

Michael A. Whitehouse
6 years ago
Plant a single seed and water it, and you will grow a flower or vegetable, but plant a garden and...

Decorate and extend the life of your carved pumpkin

Melinda Myers
6 years ago
It’s time to select and decorate pumpkins for your Halloween display. Get family and friends...

Floral Inspirations to hand out flowers in Lewes Oct...

6 years ago
As part of the Society of American Florists’ Petal It Forward program, Floral Inspirations will hit...

Chicken companies’ flock supervisors awarded at...

6 years ago
At Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc.’s 54th National Meeting on Poultry Health, Processing, and Live...

Farm grants cover irrigation system conversion costs

6 years ago
The Delaware Department of Agriculture has partnered with the Delaware Electric Cooperative to...

One of the earliest spring flowers sprouts often...

Paul Barbano
6 years ago
The story goes that an elder of the Lenni Lenape Delaware tribe called the weather service to find...

Workshop for wetland and American black duck habitat...

6 years ago
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and Ducks Unlimited are hosting a free, public...

Delaware Botanic Gardens now open Saturdays

6 years ago
Delaware Botanic Gardens recently announced that it is now open from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Wednesday...

New Executive Director Danielle Bauer to lead...

6 years ago
The Delaware Soybean Board named Danielle Bauer as its executive director, effective Oct. 1. “...

Restoring Nature’s Relationships lecture slated Oct. 21

6 years ago
As part of the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Trees meeting, Doug Tallamy, award-winning author and...

Winter aconites look best in mass plantings

Paul Barbano
6 years ago
Dr. George Henry Lamson was a British volunteer surgeon in Romania and Serbia, but like many war...

Chad Carter named to State Board of Landscape...

6 years ago
Becker Morgan Group’s landscape architect, Chad D. Carter, RLA, ASLA was appointed by Gov. John...

Hollymount 4-H holds reunion

6 years ago
About 50 members of the Hollymount 4-H club came together Sept. 14 at Conley’s Chapel to celebrate...

Fumewort is one of the nicest perennial woodland...

Paul Barbano
6 years ago
Life is fleeting, and few things are as fleeting as yesterday’s news. When a shipment of British...

Delaware Botanic Gardens cuts ribbon

Steven Billups
6 years ago
The Delaware Botanic Gardens held a ribbon-cutting ceremony sponsored by the Bethany-Fenwick Area...
Delaware Botanical Gardens

Cut back and divide your perennials this fall

Paul Barbano
6 years ago
Rock bands get their names from strange places, but one band found its name in the dictionary when...

A waste to see a glut of unripe green tomatoes rot...

Paul Barbano
6 years ago
Bananas bring out the whimsy in us. The songwriter Frank Silver would stop at a fruit stand run by...

How to revive overcrowded or struggling perennials

Melinda Myers
6 years ago
Fall is the best time to divide spring- and summer-blooming perennials that are overcrowded, dead...

Delaware Botanic Gardens holds grand opening dinner...

Chris Flood
6 years ago
The Delaware Botanic Gardens started a week-long grand opening celebration with a memorable dinner...

Fall Is For Planting class series begins Sept. 17

6 years ago
East Coast Garden Center announces its first Fall Is For Planting Class Series as a part of its...

Fiddle Leaf Fig tree is a wonderful houseplant

Paul Barbano
6 years ago
We often fiddle with new plants, only to give up and yell “fiddlesticks!” There is a large...

Shannon Sizmor awarded Lewes In Bloom Beauty Spot

6 years ago
The garden of Shannon Sizmor won the most recent Lewes in Bloom Beauty Spot award. The profusion of...

Business owner Mike Meoli donates first aid kits to...

6 years ago
As Delaware Botanic Gardens prepares to open to the public Monday, Sept. 16, Mike Meoli, owner of...

Solar use cuts emissions and costs for Millsboro...

6 years ago
Settled in the heart of rural southern Delaware sits Coffee Cup Ranch in Millsboro. Farmer and...

Millsboro Garden Club to lead native grasses class...

6 years ago
The Millsboro Garden Club will sponsor an inservice on native grasses at 11 a.m., Friday, Sept. 13...

Delmarva Forestry Seminar registration due Sept. 16

6 years ago
After several years on hiatus, the Delmarva Forestry Seminar will return from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m...

Chinese House plants grow, bloom and go to seed in...

Paul Barbano
6 years ago
Since nine is the greatest single-digit number, it is deemed powerful in numerology. There are nine...

Hair can enhance a garden’s health

Paul Barbano
6 years ago
In the heat of summer it seems everything grows faster. Even the hair on your head grows 10 to 15...

Don’t turn your hard work to ‘junk’ in the garden

Paul Barbano
6 years ago
From junk bonds to junk mail to junk food, it seems a lot of our lives deal with junk. “Junk” once...

Brian Trader joins botanic gardens as director of...

6 years ago
The Delaware Botanic Gardens recently announced that Brian W. Trader, PhD, has joined its staff as...

Commemorative trees in Rehoboth Beach last generations

6 years ago
Planting a tree on public property in Rehoboth Beach provides a gift to the entire community that...

East Coast Garden Center holds Brews, BBQ and Bushes...

Steven Billups
6 years ago
East Coast Garden Center held its 4th Annual Brews, BBQ and Bushes event Aug. 2 at the nursery near...
Brews, BBQ and Bushes

Cordrey Charities and East Coast Garden Center...

6 years ago
East Coast Garden Center and Cordrey Charities chose Beebe Healthcare’s Population Health...

Once Soapwort is established, it grows for years

Paul Barbano
6 years ago
Many surnames started as simply our ancestors' occupations, so someone who worked with candles was...

Hollymount 4-H seeks past members for Sept. 14 reunion

6 years ago
Hollymount 4-H Club will celebrate 60 years of Making the Best Better with a gathering at 4 p.m.,...

Shannon Marie O’Hara named farm bureau state youth...

6 years ago
Shannon Marie O’Hara of Sussex County has been named Delaware Farm Bureau’s State Youth Ambassador...

Strategies for growing edibles later into the season

Melinda Myers
6 years ago
Don’t let fall or potentially frosty temperatures stop you from enjoying garden-fresh produce...

Kali Voshell joins Delaware Farm Bureau staff

6 years ago
Delaware Farm Bureau announced Kali Voshell has joined the state staff as program and foundation...

USDA Market Facilitation Program signups Dec. 6

6 years ago
Signup is open through Friday, Dec. 6, for the Market Facilitation Program, a U.S. Department of...

LEADelaware applications due Oct. 1

6 years ago
LEADelaware, the state’s agriculture and natural resources leadership program, is now accepting...