David Hooten/Dr. Dirt To all moms, mothers and grandmothers out there reading this great local newspaper, Dr. Dirt, wishes you a HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY. This will be day of honor for moms! Load up your mom and take her to the garden centers and nurseries and buy her some garden plants in bloom. Most garden centers, greenhouses, and nurseries within …

Everyone is extra thirsty in the summer, especially when triple-digit heat arrives to Lea County. You, your pets and even your landscape and gardens cry out for a drink! Yes, during long hot summer days your trees, shrubs and other plants need a nice, cool drink of water. Summer rains are great, but the natural precipitation is not enough to …

We are less than three weeks away from the ‘official’ start of summer, as every Lea Countian knows, when June arrives so does summertime heat. Here are a few tips for your landscape, garden and lawn to do in June. Vegetable gardens If you are growing veggies, you probably have tomatoes planted. One of most common disorders I see with …

I’m taking a different twist on the gardening column with this edition. It is still gardening on a global scale that directly comes to our door steps in southeast New Mexico and our west Texas neighbors. I love to shop, ask my wife, she will clue you in. Green houses are my passion. But I also love a good mall, and I …

Happy New Year, to all of the Hobbs News-Sun readers and gardening public, it’s already two weeks into the new year as I write this article. I am ready for the new season and the great things we all can do and achieve in 2019. The winter solstice has happened and days are lengthening with added daylight time which increases …