Guerrilla Garden Bounty
The best part of growing a garden is harvesting more than you can eat in a single sitting. It’s easy to see how harvest festivals started with a seemingly endless bounty of food in a few scant weeks of ripeness. The bucket of “Tommy Toe” heirloom tomatoes is hardly endless but the tomatoes have completely subsumed the entire garden. Originally there were four varieties of tomato in there, but I’ve only managed to harvest two.Somewhere beneath are some suffering cucumbers, an eggplant that has bo
Birds on Your Trees: Pals or Pests? Written by Althea Tan in GardeningViewed by 3 readers since 02-01-2009
If you’re one of those few people lucky enough to own a cherry tree in their yard, it’s surely needless to say how much pleasure you probably derive from it. Having a magnificent, fruit-bearing cherry tree is indeed rewarding and pleasurable, both to the taste and sight. A cherry tree is usually considered by non-gardeners an exotic plant, making most people impressed and perhaps envious by the fact that you own one.Unfortunately, there are those who just want to spoil that pleasure you get from
Everything is Coming Up Rosy
A rose in a garden is much like Gossip Girl’s Blair Waldorf – Queen Bee, society diva, and breathtaking beautiful (with a thorn, or two…or three.) What’s not to love? Its beloved petals are rumored to be making therapeutic skin care remedies as far back as 10th Century Persia. Rose essential oils work wonders for dry, sensitive skin with its toning properties and also has a way in subduing redness. And that distinct, enticing fragrance is known to console shaky nerves and even take form of a mil
Sunday Gardening: Strawberry flowers, rockmelons, butternuts, and native shrubs
An update on our vegetable garden. The citrus are coming along very nicely, and the pineapple gauva trees seem to have put down their feet. We ended up with a total harvest of around 35 kg of tomatoes before mowing the summer-fried vines under. As well as eating mountains of insalata caprese and fresh salsas and tomato sandwiches, and giving bags of tomatoes away, we’ve frozen large batches for adding to spaghetti sauces and curries, and have jars of tomato relish/chutney stocking the pantry. T
My Country Garden: Pruning can be a high-maintenance gardening task (Anderson Independent-Mail)
A garden task that does need a lot of attention right now is pruning. You need four pieces of equipment: a sharp hand pruner; long-handled pruners called loppers; a pruning saw with a 10- to 12-inch blade and shears for cutting hedges.
The Growing Challenge: Welcome New Seed Savers & Ask Any Gardening Questions
The Growing Challenge: Welcome New Seed Savers & Ask Any Gardening Questions Posted by Melinda on Saturday, January 31st, 2009 Hello everyone! So far there are 53 participants signed up for The Growing Challenge: From Seed To Seed. They are: Jules, The Garden of Plenty, Melbourne, Australia - zone 9-10 (Aust. 3) Jena, Married To The Farm, Caro, Michigan - zone 5 Amanda, You Reap What You Sow, South Central Pennsylvania - zone 6-7 Jen, Toward Arcadia, Michigan - zone 5-6 D
Sexbolt Saturday: Gardening as a Natural Viagra.
Did you know that one man in 10 will suffer from impotence, also known as erectile dysfunction, at some stage in their life? But according to a new study, all guys need to do to reduce the risk of them suffering from this infliction is to get out of the house and into the garden. Sounds pretty simple. According to the researchers at the Medical University of Vienna, who studied 674 guys aged 45 to 60, half an hour of gardening five days of week can make all the difference, reducing the risk o
Post-inaugural fallout in the garden (Ripley’s, on the Mall)
I’m sorry to report that the inaugural news out of Washington, D.C. isn’t ALL good, at least in the gardening department. Remember the “Best Little Garden in D.C. and the Plant Geek who Tends it?” I didn’t think so, but…
Martha Stewart is My Idol
I have wanted to be an Interior Designer since junior high. I think the desire stemmed from the designer rock stars I watched on TV- Lynette Jennings, Cristopher Lowell (yes him) and Bob Vila ( OK, Bob isn’t a designer, but I still love This Old House). Design shows were definitely my show of choice, but the show that trumped them all was Martha Stewart Living. Martha could do it all, decorating, cooking, baking, gardening, she rules when it comes to homemaking. Martha increased my interest from
Starlings Inspire A Blog Post
I’m having difficulty focusing today with the distraction of a carnival of starlings in my backyard.They squawk and sing and fight with each other and then take flight anytime I try to go outside to get some better pictures.At one of the feeders, the one that still has some seed in it, they line up and try to crowd each other out.I haven’t seen this many birds in the yard all together for long time. (For some of my southern gardening friends who wonder how long the snow from Wednesday will be he
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