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The winter garden is more worth a look if it has some things to anchor it, whether they’re arbors, stone walls, evergreens, or dense, deciduous plants. Read about some of what I’ve created serendipitously or planned in my latest blog post.
Grow bananas here in NY’s Hudson Valley! I tried many years ago, with mixed results which, if you must know, read about in my latest blog post (my name dot com slash blog). Now I’ve come upon some candidates with more solid prognosis for success, one in particular and all with one caveat. As usual, if you’re interested, it’s all detailed in that latest blog post (my name dot com slash blog).
Puffs of “smoke” follow me was I walk around the farmden. This very mysterious-looking conjuring up goodness for me soil has a firm basis. I’m not going to divulge anything here. If you’re interested in garden gnomes and gremlins, do NOT read my latest blog post.
A book is a way to cram lifetimes of gardening experiences in a diversity of environments into a few hours. And some gardening books also make for good reading and/or inspiring visuals. In my latest blog post I make some recommendations for some gardening books. They’re also nice for gifts. Read the post here.
You’ve raked up this season’s autumn leaves. I hope you didn’t treat them like garbage because they can bring all sorts of goodness to your soil. So much so that I gather up those bags that others put out for pickup — that is, unless the leaf goblin gets there before me. Read about autumn leaves and the goblin in my latest blog post.
Saving pumpkin seeds is one way to plan now for next year’s Halloween. But what is a “pumpkin” really? And what are the chances and challenges for a good or great pumpkin from this year’s seeds. Learn the answer to these questions — and more — by reading this weeks blog post.
Mercury plummeting out in the garden. No problem. I was prepared on all fronts. (At least I think so.) Read about those fronts in my latest blog post, here.
To prune or not to prune (this time of year): that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler to neaten up the garden or to suffer tangles of stems. With apologies to Bill Shakespeare, it depends on lots of things whether or not now is a good time to go out to the garden wielding pruning shears. I go over the why’s and the why not’s of pruning in fall in my latest blog post.
Biochar is a relic of ancient agriculture now used with a modern perspective. Applied to soils it confers myriad benefits. But does biochar make the best use of the plant feedstuffs?
My worst garden ever is now looking pretty good. For a number of reasons. Which I enumerate in my latest blog post. I can’t do anything about the weather but now I can pay attention to some things to make the best of even a poor growing season.
