best primulas for our gardens, with ‘primrose’ author elizabeth lawson
WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE about primroses? I felt that way even before I read Elizabeth Lawson’s deep-dive social and cultural [read more…]
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materials for path surfaces, black spot and powdery mildew, and more: q&a with ken druse
IT’S URGENT GARDEN QUESTION time again, which means Ken Druse visited my radio show and podcast to help provide the [read more…]
august 17 open day, plant sale, native plant talk & workshop
ON SATURDAY August 17, join me and Adam Wheeler of Broken Arrow Nursery in my garden for tours and a [read more…]
raised beds, grow bags and more, with epic gardening’s kevin espiritu
I BUILT MY OLD-STYLE wooden raised beds for vegetables about 30 years ago, and they’ve served me well. Lately on [read more…]
get smarter about poison ivy, with dr. susan pell
NO, POISON IVY was not put on the planet to punish mankind, or to boost antihistamine sales. As with every [read more…]
okra: beautiful, resilient, and surprising, with chris smith
IF YOU HAD TOLD ME I’d be reading an entire book about okra, and often laughing out loud delightedly in [read more…]
the july garden chores
EACH JULY DAY is a stern little conversation or two (or 10): with myself, to push onward; with certain weeds [read more…]
which fertilizer should i use? feed the soil instead, says lee reich
WHAT FERTILIZER should I feed my (fill-in-the-blank) plant? A lot of you ask that question, about things ranging from magnolias [read more…]
beelining: in search of wild honey bees, with tom seeley
BEEKEEPING IS A ‘THING’ in recent years, an increasingly popular hobby, but our relationship with honey bees goes back much [read more…]
6th annual moth night in taconic state park: join us july 20
JOIN US FOR our sixth annual Moth Night, part of the citizen-science project called National Moth Week, and organized by Margaret Roach’s [read more…]
