By Nathan Coker
In Features
Apr 1st, 2026
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April is a busy month in ArkLaMiss gardens and landscapes. So, without further ado, but with a lot of copy editing, let’s get outdoors and get after it! VEGETABLESSet out transplants of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants this month. All three thrive in slightly acidic, organic soil that drains well. S...
By Nathan Coker
In Features
Mar 2nd, 2026
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Article by Kerry Heafner February’s article had already gone to press by the time Fern hit. I hope by now you and yours are as back to normal after the ice storm as you can be. If there is a lesson to be learned from a weather event like Fern, that lesson is this: powerlines […]...
By Nathan Coker
In In the Garden
Feb 2nd, 2026
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Article by Kenny Heafner Alot is going on this month, so let’s get outdoors and get after it! First thing is to finish up planting woody perennials. Be making final selections at garden centers and get shrubs, trees, and fruit-bearing trees/shrubs/vines in the ground by the end of the month. Spring ...
By Nathan Coker
In Features
Jan 5th, 2026
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Article by Kerry Heafner HAPPY NEW YEAR! Cassie said this month’s issue is about renewal, health, beauty, and wellness. The early New Year is a great opportunity to appreciate how our ArkLaMiss gardens and landscapes bring us all these not only during the growing season, but throughout each twelve-mo...
By Nathan Coker
In In the Garden
Dec 1st, 2025
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Article by Kerry Heafner Even though it’s the holidays, we need to start thinking ahead to spring. Now through February is the ideal time to install woody perennials in the landscape! Whether ornamentals or fruit trees/shrubs/vines, now is the perfect time to get them off to a perfect start for maxim...
By Nathan Coker
In In the Garden
Oct 31st, 2025
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The Slow Food movement began back in 1986 in Italy when a fast-food restaurant opened near the Spanish Steps in Rome igniting a national protest. I can’t say I remember seeing this in the headlines back then, but I was only sixteen at the time. Almost 40 years have passed since then! Events I remembe...
By Nathan Coker
In In the Garden
Oct 1st, 2025
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Boooo! October can be a “veddy sceddy” time in our landscapes because it is a month of transition. The number of daylight hours continues to decrease and our deciduous trees and shrubs are responding accordingly. If your trees and deciduous shrubs don’t look so hot right now, they’re probably just ge...
By Nathan Coker
In In the Garden
Aug 28th, 2025
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Can you believe eight months of 2025 are behind us? We’ve had and continue to have a long sizzling summer. But this summer has been nothing like two years ago when record high temperatures and low relative humidity levels were making outdoor conditions dangerous and seriously stressing our landscapes...
By Nathan Coker
In In the Garden
Jul 30th, 2025
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“Food, glorious food. Corn, ‘maters, and okrey!” The correct lyric is “Food, glorious food. Hot sausage and mustard” from the musical Oliver! I made up my own lyrics many years ago, the summer of 1988 to be exact, when our community theatre group back home performed a summertime production ...
By Nathan Coker
In In the Garden
Jul 1st, 2025
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I don’t know why I haven’t written more about ferns. A lot of years ago, in what seems like a previous life, ferns were my focus of botanical research. My thesis for my master’s degree focused on two populations of a southwestern fern species in North Carolina, far out of the species range. In col...
