Gardening and Garden Design

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Finger and Hand Care for Gardeners: A Digital Primer Finger and hand care for gardeners can be a touchy subject.  When you’re constantly shoving your hands into some of the most awful media imaginable (stuff like manure and sulfur comes to mind), the skin that covers them really gets […]

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy How to Prepare Roses for Winter: A Field Guide These simple steps will show you how to prepare your roses for winter easily and effectively.  Follow these basics to ensure that your gals and guys wake up rosy-cheeked and ready to shine in the spring. By John G. Stamos

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy How to Prepare Your Garden for Winter When frost is on the pumpkin, or worse yet, when ice, snow, and below freezing temps are what’s on tap outdoors, will your garden be buttoned down and locked up tight?  You’ve got to make sure that you and your garden are

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy How to Overwinter Potted Perennials Outdoors If you didn’t get all of your perennials out of their pots and into the ground before temperatures plummeted, don’t despair.  You can still make sure that they that they live to see the following spring.  I’m going to show you, right here,

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy How to Keep Raccoons, Possums, Minks, and Other Small Carnivores out of Your Garden Are hungry little predators using your property as their personal hunting grounds, and tearing everything up while they’re at it?  If that’s what you’ve got going on, keep it right here to learn how to

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy How to Deal with Moles, Voles, and Chipmunks in the Garden – Part Three: Garden-wide Eviction “How to Deal with Moles, Voles, and Chipmunks Three” will show you the garden-wide eviction plan I use to encourage these little pests to hang out somewhere else.  It’s an excellent strategy that’s

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy 10 Great Perennials for Fall Planting Frost and freezing temperatures may be just around the corner, but if you hurry, you can still get some awesome plants in the ground.  And I’ve got some pretty good candidates for you that don’t mind making friends with dirt that’s on the

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy How to Deal with Moles, Voles, and Chipmunks in the Garden – Part Two: Repairing the Damage Here in “How to Deal with Moles, Voles, and Chipmunks Two,” you’ll learn how I repair the damage that these guys and gals cause in my garden, and how I make sure