A WONDERFULLY FIERY FALL
This fall has been gloriously colorful, especially so. My latest blog post takes a peek on what brings on those color and what you and I can do to bring out its best. Read about it here:
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CURING CHESTNUTS, AND MORE
Chestnuts have been gathered. But wait! Don’t eat them yet. Follow me through the steps for gathering to eating them at their best, which I detail in my latest blog post:
FRESH, WINTER CORN SALAD
I’ll be eating fresh corn salad all winter. Not one with yellow kernels in it, though, but one with verdant, delicately flavored leaves. The “weed” is very accommodating. Want to know all about it and how I work with its characteristics to make me and the plant happiest? Follow this link:
UPS AND DOWNS AND UPS WITH CHESTNUTS
You can have “[your] chestnuts roasting on your [own] open fire”. American chestnut trees were decimated by blight over the past 100 years but other chestnut species or hybrids are available to fill the bill. Read about what happened to the American chestnut and its future, and what you can grow now in my latest blog post, here:
AUTUMN’S LUSHNESS
“The closing scenes are not necessarily funereal. A garden should be got ready for winter as well as for summer. When one goes into winter-quarters he wants everything neat and trim. . . garden in complete order before the snow comes, so that its last days shall not present a scene of melancholy ruin and decay.” I take these words, written 150 years ago by Charles Dudley Warner, to heart, as I describe in my latest blog post, here:
GILDED BERRIES
Grow the very best tasting raspberry (imho). Also beautiful. Also everbearing, from midsummer on until stopped by cold weather in autumn. What is it? Read here:
TREES & SHRUBS FOR ALL
So you’re going to plant some trees and shrubs. Fall is an excellent time. In addition to the kind of tree or shrub, what kind of nursery plant do you want — b & b, bare root, container grown? And, bigger plants are more expensive, but are they better? I write about all this in this week’s blog post:
A GARDEN PEST OF HUMANS
Yellowjackets are often in a garden, and they are pest. So are they garden pests? Yes, to you and me. But they also attack plant pests. What to do, to keep them at bay? What to do, once they’ve attacked? For more about yellowjackets, see:
FIG SEASON
[Even in cold winter climates, such as here on the farmden, figlets line the stems of our fig trees. Baby figs near the tops of the stems, fatter ones and riper ones lower down. The ripe figs are sweetly delectable — but only if picked dead ripe. In my latest blog post, I explore fig ripening as well as ways to hasten ripening, and what to do with the ripe fruit. Read about all this here:[Even in cold winter climates, such as here on the farmden, figlets line the stems of our fig trees. Baby figs near the tops of the stems, fatter ones and riper ones lower down. The ripe figs are sweetly delectable — but only if picked dead ripe. In my latest blog post, I explore fig ripening as well as ways to hasten ripening, and what to do with the ripe fruit. Read about all this here:
A WILD AND CULTIVATED BALM
I long admired bee-balm and wanted it more close at hand also. But was it bee-balm I admired? No matter. Now it and a close relative grows happily in my garden and the field. Want to know more?
