December 2025

I have been on a mission over the last couple of months to find a small SUV for a new garden maintenance crew that will be starting next year. I didn’t anticipate the battle ahead of me. This post is about what I learned along the way. Maybe, just maybe, I will save someone from […]

This native garden in Litchfield is looking good in late summer but it’s not the meadow but what lurks directly behind it, that this post is about. It’s hard to see but behind this native garden is an area that’s heavily maintained with string trimmers for most of the garden season. The reason? Knotweed! The