The air feels tangibly thick and warm, even as the sun slips out of sight behind the longleaf pines and magnolias beyond the large garden. The white puffiness of the clouds seems brighter as the blueness of the sky deepens…
Purple coneflower and false sunflower fill Lynn O’Shaughnessy’s Circle Garden in Howell, MI, where she uses native plants to teach visitors about biodiversity. Purple coneflower supports bees and butterflies in bloom, while seedheads left standing provide food for birds into…
Raking maple leaves off a lawn in November may be clearing away the very thing that keeps next spring’s dandelions down. In Michigan State University trials, leaves mulched into Kentucky bluegrass with a rotary mower cut dandelion populations by about…
Happy Halloween weekend! You can dress up as a crazy gardener and do some planting! I think this may be the last ideal weekend for it. Temperatures are in the 60s, and soil is still workable. The mosquitoes, gnats, and flies…
You may notice that I repeat myself. That is how it goes with gardening. You might get to that task this week, and you might not. What could be done now doesn’t have to be done now, but you might…
Another beautiful weekend found me among the plants in my assorted gardens. Nice weather with few insect pests inspires me to stay outside and attend to important tasks. If you enjoyed other pursuits, that’s fine, but you may want to…
In November, the planting season is in full gear. We can feel the transition towards winter. Days are shorter, and storms may affect our ability to work outdoors, but November is still a great month for gardening. Planting: In the…
Figure 1. This garden plan features 12- and 24-inch-wide walkways of scrap wood or sawdust, short rows for ease of hoeing from ends, perennial vegetables planted on the long sides for the least interference with garden soil preparation, and many short rows…
By PAULA TRACY, InDepth NH At the meeting in Ashland, some of the recipients of the home use tumblers spent time talking about troubleshooting issues, from clumping balls to what is the best “brown” matter to use to mix in…
A golden rule of organic gardening is to avoid bare soil, especially over winter. Heavy rainfall will leach nutrients and damage soil structure, while exposed ground is more vulnerable to erosion and compaction. But the challenge is that by November,…
Kitchen scraps to black gold — bins, tumblers, and vermicompost.
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