Spring is a great time for vegetable planting. You can still plant many cool season vegetables and soon it'll be time to plant summer crops. A note on those: If you prefer starting seeds indoors over purchasing seedlings at Blackhawk Hardware's Garden Center, it is now time to start those as well if you haven't [...]
The answer to the question as to when should you start planting vegetables in Charlotte really depends on the vegetable. Some like arugula, spinach and peas can be sown as early as the ground can be worked. If you get seeds in the ground this weekend you can count on a spinach harvest in 30 [...]
Tanglefoot and tree banding material are in stock now! Beware of the cankerworm! Not only does this little fella get really annoying when he gets tangled in your hair, he also presents a fierce enemy to Charlotte's beautiful tree canopy. This time of year the Alsophila Pometraria moth crawls up tree stems and lays her [...]
Direct from Holland Meet the pride of our garden center: spring bulbs! Few plants signalize spring quite like tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths. If you are looking for highest quality and a huge variety of flower bulbs in Charlotte, please pay us a visit. Our bulbs are directly imported from flower farms in the Netherlands to [...]
Why is it that strolling through Blackhawk's Garden Center in Dilworth is always so amazing? It's like walking through a carefully crafted botanical garden. I believe it is because not only are there all the plants you could ever want but what's more, they are interspersed with amazing garden art. I always felt that beautiful [...]
Many folks come to Blackhawk Hardware hoping to fix some issues before putting their house on the market. Obviously you want your home to look its best before listing it for sale but what projects have the biggest impact? For this feature I chatted with Charlotte realtor Sara McKinney from Gingerstate Realty Group / Keller [...]
If you live in the Carolinas it is now that time of year to plant your summer vegetables. Our wonderful conditions here in hardiness zone 7b allow you to plant an incredible amount of varieties as the plant and seed aisles of Blackhawk will remind you. Many more than my little urban garden can fit [...]
Ladies, we all know about "hat hair". Many of us will avoid even wearing a hat for sun protection because we don't want our hairdo ruined. And how 'bout those visors that grip our temples? Forget it! Who needs the headache? Rita Hockenbury experienced the same pitfalls with hats and visors and her frustration birthed [...]
While on my quest to improve the soil and the results I was getting in my yard, things took an interesting turn. I have always had a compost pile. Every fall I collect several hundred bags of leaves which I grind into an almost dust like state. I spread the ground leafs on all my [...]
