Entries by Lee Reich

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:

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: