| | In the Garden | | | | | Friday, April 06 | | Carpenter bees on the buzz Be on the lookout for carpenter bees buzzing around, chewing holes in your exposed wood around your home. Our early warm spring weather has brought these bees out early this spring. Carpenter bees resemble bumblebees. They tend to fly and hover around areas where they may be chewing into wood. ... [Read full story] | | Scratch Marks of Gardening April showers bring May flowers. Also, they bring the time to get serious about planting your flower and vegetable gardens. Be sure and remove all mulches. Either place in your compost pile or do away with it entirely. Work the fine mulch, rotted finely, into the soil. Break up any clumps which ... [Read full story] | | | |