‘saving jemima: life and love with a hard-luck jay,’ with julie zickefoose
LIKE WRITER, ARTIST and wildlife rehabilitator Julie Zickefoose, I am particularly fascinated and also often startled by the interface of [read more…]
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get it while it lasts! corn, tomato and zucchini recipes, with alexandra stafford
THE BACKYARD HARVEST is probably coming in fast and furious, and the farmstand and farmers-market tables are loaded, too. So, [read more…]
september garden chores
IF ONLY IT WOULD RAIN more consistently, here is what I would do, I promise: divide and also add perennials [read more…]
success (and flair) with orchids: ‘orchid modern,’ with nybg’s marc hachadourian
ORCHIDS: You can’t live without them, and you can’t keep them alive. I’m kidding, sort of, but who among us [read more…]
there’s more than one way to ripen a tomato
AH, THE JUICY JOY OF A RIPE TOMATO—IF YOU CAN NURTURE ONE unscathed to that perfect shade of orangey-red, that [read more…]
best hydrangeas, browning junipers, birds tapping on windows & more: q&a with ken druse
YOUR RECENT QUESTIONS ranged from favorite blue hydrangeas to junipers with browning needles; birds tapping incessantly on window glass, and [read more…]
skins-on easy tomato sauce to freeze
I SPEND RAINY DAYS in harvest season writing, and reading, and streaming a bounty of BBC and other British television [read more…]
invasive asian jumping worms: a 2019 research update, with brad herrick of uw-madison
SO-CALLED CRAZY WORMS or Asian jumping worms, several invasive earthworm species that are spreading alarmingly in many areas and degrading [read more…]
dan koshansky’s refrigerator dill pickles
NEARLY 30 YEARS AGO ALMOST TO THE DAY, I ate pickles for breakfast with lovely Dan Koshansky, a retired railroad [read more…]
beecology: how you can help native bumblebees, with robert gegear
BIOLOGIST ROBERT GEGEAR wants our help. He wants us to become Beecologists, as in, citizen scientists who help with the [read more…]
