Gardening

Best Plants for Pollinators: Tips and Regional Guides

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Plants for Pollinators, Info for Gardeners No doubt, I am the largest, most flightless, furless bumblebee around, but a man's got to do what a...

Gobbled Up by Green

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Keeping up with the Weedashians... If I kept a diary, no doubt I would scribe the same words of panic each spring, "Everything is growing...

Dividing Daffodil Bulbs: Little Work for a Lot of Blooms

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In my garden, spring is heralded by a cheerful brass section of daffodils, all eager to trumpet the advent of longer and warmer days....

Say “Good Morning,” Gracie…

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57vwc3HPEdY?rel=0] (Double click image to start video) Good morning! I'm usually up at the crack 'o thirty, stumbling about the old house with a toothbrush...
Boz the bulldog naps in the construction zone

Greenhouse Construction Update: Supervisors Found Sleeping on the Job

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 Boz found sleeping on the job I joked with a friend this week, that it took Noah less time to build an ark then it...

I’ll Take Garden Potpourri for $200, Alex

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Rose Pink Flamingo shows off its flower power. I'm a secret fan of Jeopardy. I watch intently when time allows, and blurt out the answers...
big leaf maple in a sea of bluebells

Bonkers for Bluebells in Bloom

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Bluebells steal the spring scene Every late April and early May my garden is flooded by a sea of bluebells. Strolling through the garden seems...
interior hoophouse

Hooping It Up: The Greenhouse Is Covered!

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The hoophouse crowned: Clouds parted, the angels sang. A Greenhouse Grows! Building a hoophouse--make that a large hoophouse--has been a life lesson in humility. I believe...
tomatillo husks dried flowers

Garden Photos: Remains of the Day

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Garden Photos of a Seasons Past I thought a break in the drizzle and my labor camp duties would be a fine time to revisit...
interior look at high tunnel hoophouse

When a Greenhorn Builds a Greenhouse

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Hooping It Up With a Greenhouse Down on the Farm Sun Island Farm's hoophouse: similar to what mine will look like. About a year ago, I...