Since my recent gardening column on slugs, the mailbox has overflowed with readers’ comments and advice on how to win the war. Gardeners need all the help they can get in this slug summer. …
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A weed is a plant in the gardener’s way, a pest. This is as defined as the term can get, for one gardener’s weed is another’s treasure.
For gardeners seeking smoothness, uninterrupted lines …
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Space is at a premium in Marjorie’s garden, particularly for sun-loving annuals and vegetables. Over the years many of the vegetable garden’s beds have been turned over to cultivation of …
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Euonymus alatus, known to some as winged euonymus for the four corky wings that appear occasionally along the young stems, to others as burning bush because of the bright crimson color of autumn …
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The sun came out on Saturday afternoon and Marjorie and I followed it into the garden, where we were met by bumblebees and butterflies, they too overjoyed by sunshine. We could see steam rising from …
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In the beginning, Marjorie used stones the size of basketballs and larger to frame the beds of her vegetable garden, to hold the dark, crumbly, earthworm-laden soil that now fills each bed to the …
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Sowing peas is an early spring ritual filled with exuberance for the new gardening season. In mid-April, I heard excitement in the voices of gardening friends, “Got my peas in this weekend!” By …
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Last Sunday I saw the season’s first bumblebee. She was foraging for pollen on a wild willow at the edge of Marjorie’s garden, a queen just emerged from her nest (an old mouse hole somewhere …
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The morning sky was gray, a fine mist visible against the dark spruce and pines that grow in Marjorie’s garden. We took our coffee to the porch swing to watch the garden’s birds.
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