Farming Chart

You plant a tree, and you’re anxious. You invest a piece of time into something that won’t return investment for years and years to come. … Read more

Growing a walnut tree is an investment. It’s decades before it pays dividends. And you’re buying an asset that won’t pay back for several years. … Read more

The way to plant a big shade tree take a certain kind of patience: Dig the hole, drop in the sapling, water it in, and … Read more

Pomegranates are one of those fruits that require a special form of patience to grow, testing even the most steady beginning gardener’s will. Plant it … Read more

It’s spring. You buy a tree, dig the hole, insert the seedling with great expectation of grand shade provider, or an impenetrable privacy screen any … Read more

When you plant pecan trees, there’s an expectation that goes with it. You dig the hole. You water the sapling. And then…you wait. Waiting feels … Read more

Within the first month of most new ponds, the owner makes one very common mistake. He buys some plants at garden center, puts them into … Read more

Most new homeowners make the mistake of buying generic grass seed at the store and spreading it around on bare dirt. That’s what everyone who … Read more

If you’ve tried planting grass seed, then you know it doesn’t always work out if conditions aren’t just right. You raked and watered, but all … Read more

But then, there’s impatience: You’re planting that tree for some shade, not in thirty years but now! Of all the native hardwoods, the sycamore perhaps … Read more

If your climbing ornamental or even your grapevine appear woody and brown in early spring, don’t be alarmed; it is just being itself, even if … Read more