Gardening with Allen

My strawberry plants have become so thick that they did not produce very well last year. Should I remove some of the plants? Yes, strawberry beds tend to become overcrowded with […]

While we were hibernating inside this winter weeds have been merrily growing along. It is now time for some of them to produce flowers and seeds. If we remove them […]

  I am frequently asked which flower varieties are hardy enough to plant in April and which tender flowers I should wait to plant until May. There are two reasons to […]

In selecting plants and seeds, you often find the word “hybrid” as a descriptive term. Some organic gardeners shy away from hybrid varieties because they have read somewhere that they […]

With the warmer than usual spring weather, is it ok to plant my flowers and vegetables early this year? Because of the weather, we can plant hardy or cold tolerant […]

I have read about your natural pruning technique in previous columns. Is this something an average gardener could learn to do? Could you describe it for me? I am often asked […]

Four years ago when my lawn was newly sodded, it was very uniform with only one kind of grass. Now my lawn has become an irregular patchwork of different textures […]

I have an abundance of moss growing in my lawn and shrub beds. I have this problem every year about this time. I have used several brands of moss control […]

Is this a good time to prune my fruit trees? What is the best way to prune them? Established fruit trees require yearly pruning for best health and maximum fruit production. […]

I notice that several of the new All-America vegetable winners have an “F1” suffix attached. Could you explain what it means. “F1” is a label that designates a plant variety as […]