ShareWhat do you think when you’re told you have to retrain someone?
You can imagine what I was thinking when I was told I’m going to have to retrain my honey bees.
Not all of them, just ones that keep sneaking into the hive from the back side.
It all started last winter, when a mouse family moved [...]

ShareIf there’s a flower that heralds spring to me, it’s yellow daffodils.
I learned to refer to these flower with long noses as daffodils from my Illinois neighbor.
Mrs. Futrell had a small white house with a picket fence lined with the small, early yellow flowers growing under old-fashioned lilac bushes.
She would walk the fence line with [...]

ShareScientists have confirmed bees have distinct personalities; distinguish between human faces; can find the shortest distance between two points faster than any computer; have moods, and now have a parasitic fly that leaves them like zombies.
Even though a lot of money is being invested in research, bees continue to die in record numbers. Between immigrant [...]

How to garden based on national holidays.

Why bush honeysuckle should not be welcome in Missouri gardens.

Great Back Yard Bird Count is February 17-20, 2012.

ShareThe lady on the phone was polite enough.
She spoke softly but clearly, asking if I could help her identify the “little white plant” she said was growing in the middle of her yard.
As a University of Missouri Extension Master Gardener volunteer, I’ve completed the basic gardening course; volunteered more than my 30 hours a year [...]

How to compost easily to reduce refuse and increase quality of your garden.

Top 10 things for gardeners to try in 2012.

Sharey Charlotte Ekker Wiggins
Do you like to make New Year’s resolutions?
I don’t either so I don’t make the traditional ones. I like to think of the new year in terms of doing something new.
I’ve always loved corn in the cob but 1998 was the year I tried barbecued corn and developed my own favorite corn [...]