grow your own and share!
written by Lisa Briggs
The popularity of vegetable gardening shows no signs of plateauing, and that makes your goal of eating in a more seasonal and local way easier than ever. Growers are introducing lots of new, and older but new to you varieties.
what’s a gardener to do?
written by Lisa Briggs
No one wants to be the first to say it, but here we go. The Solstice was a couple weeks ago and even though we are still under the spell of the dog days, astronomically summer is on the wane.
can we garden for the birds?
written by Lisa Briggs
It’s hard to imagine a yard without our fine feathered friends. A key to getting birds to linger in your landscape is to give them what they want – food, water, nesting materials and cover.
gardeners … get out your hoses!
written by Lisa Briggs
All of the heat we’ve experienced in the last few days combined with the very dry weather so far may mean that plants will struggle to establish this summer.
rain, rain, don’t go away
Mid-summer is an especially nice time to start a garden journal. Your what-to-do-in-the-garden-today lists have shortened and everything is just so beautiful. It can be helpful to make notes of particular diseases or pests that may haunt your yard year after year....
the worst day of the summer?
written by Lisa Briggs
Before their accidental importation to the United States, probably as grubs in the soil of imported iris, Japanese beetles were found only on the islands of Japan, isolated by water and kept in check by natural predators.
get your glow on
by Lisa Briggs
Fireflies are not flies. Nor are lightning bugs, bugs. And no one would think that a glowworm is actually a worm.
the lazy days of summer
written by Lisa Briggs
Although June often ushers in a gentler garden, the kaleidoscopic colors of May might linger with us a bit longer.
time to board the spring seesaw
written by Lisa Briggs
May is usually a gardener’s favorite time, and this year even more so! The seesaw spring had spring flowers developing in fits and starts, but the warm temps late last week pushed many plants hard, all at once.
reasons to grow your own
written by Lisa Briggs
Did you read the book, The $64 Tomato… by William Alexander? Written in 2006, it was a tongue-in-cheek treatise on vegetable gardening, bemoaning the money spent to get one ripe tomato.
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