Life takes us down many paths, and if we’re lucky, we may get to choose which path we prefer. Last Fall, my husband had a landmark birthday. We knew it was coming, so early in the Summer, we began our quest for a new home. We talked it over and decided that we needed either ...
Read More | Everything RosesBiochar is a miraculous soil amendment that is currently having a moment. We might think it’s a new-fangled product but we’d be wrong. It’s an addition to soil that has been used in cultivation for millennia. A new product from my friends at Organic Mechanics puts the powers of biochar into a potting soil that ...
Read More | Just VeggiesIn the last “Just Veggies” I discussed one way in which climate change is impacting your garden—and that is by extending the growing season with earlier spring emergence and later dieback in fall. In this edition, I want to talk about how warmer temperatures throughout the growing season can impact your vegetable gardens. What Warming ...
Read More | Just VeggiesAfter a very mild winter with little snowfall, I was not too surprised to see that my roses broke dormancy a couple of weeks ago. The plants in my rose gardens went through the winter tall this year; usually I prune them ‘way down in the late fall. Once in a while this happens and ...
Read More | Everything RosesClimate change is impacting your garden and your gardening activities in multiple ways. You may have noticed some signs of this already—your cold-weather greens lasting through the winter, for instance, or your garlic sprouting early. The warming climate’s impacts can be and are more insidious than destructive storms and continent-wide drought, and they are appearing ...
Read More | Just VeggiesFebruary is a month for thinking about the rose garden. We all love rose catalogs and pore over them for hours! There are plenty of gorgeous roses to choose from, but today I’d like to share with you some beautiful floribunda roses that I grow in my Suffield, CT gardens. What Does Floribunda Mean? The ...
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