Category: Gardening

Dear Friend, Spring certainly took her sweet time arriving this year, didn’t she? This past long weekend finally gave us a little taste of summer. Not the full blazing version, mind you. More...

Dear friend, I hope you’re staying warm through these deep-freeze days of winter. After a full week of snow days and road closures, we’re now in the kind of cold snap that makes your cheeks...

I really, really wanted to write a heartfelt Thanksgiving message to you, dear reader - and to the season in general. But here I am, now three weeks after your turkey leftovers were turned into soup,...

Well, year two in the veggie garden is nearly complete! Overall, I’d say it was much more successful than last year - but as with any gardening adventure, I still had my fair share of wins, losses,...

Oh, the lies we gardeners have been told, the empty promises, the heartbreak, the “part sun” betrayals and the sweet little innocent-looking seedlings that turn out to be garden thugs. If...

This is now our third summer living in our home in the woods, and if the trees could talk, I’m pretty sure they’d say, “Look at them go … OMG again, with the shovel!” Next garden ......