Cleaning up some frosted bean and marigold plants the other day, I thought of a weather report I heard recently on the radio. The announcer stated: “Freezing temperatures are predicted for tonight, thus ending the gardening season.”
I ate the last of the season’s potatoes the other day, and it’s not a bad harvest achievement when you consider I dug the lot in July from a bed no more than 15 feet long.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — In the year of the new coronavirus, when new gardeners came out in droves to try growing their own vegetables, tomatoes were still king. And in a twist, the respect-seeking turnip actually turned some heads.
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — Being cooped up at home due to the pandemic paid handsomely for a Minnesota horticulture teacher who used the extra time to constantly water and feed a massive pumpkin that won this year’s Half Moon Bay pumpkin contest.
Sunset is arriving noticeably earlier, meaning less mood-lifting daylight for everyone. The weather is turning colder, so we’ll soon spend even more time cooped up inside the homes where we’ve huddled, and sometimes completely quarantined, for six months.
So many of us are struggling with everything that has happened in 2020, and we want — perhaps even need — our dwellings to feel like secure refuges.
September has ended with perfect gardening weather as we welcome fall.
I ate the last of the season’s potatoes the other day, and it’s not a bad harvest achievement when you consider I dug the lot in July from a b…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — In the year of the new coronavirus, when new gardeners came out in droves to try growing their own vegetables, tomato…
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — Being cooped up at home due to the pandemic paid handsomely for a Minnesota horticulture teacher who used the extra ti…
Sunset is arriving noticeably earlier, meaning less mood-lifting daylight for everyone. The weather is turning colder, so we’ll soon spend eve…
So many of us are struggling with everything that has happened in 2020, and we want — perhaps even need — our dwellings to feel like secure refuges.
September has ended with perfect gardening weather as we welcome fall.
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MARSHFIELD, Vt. (AP) — It’s the time of year when gardeners are turning their ripe tomatoes into sauces and salsas and cucumbers into pickles.
If you’ve ever wondered where those vegetable seeds you sow come from, the answer of late seems to be in mysterious little packages from somew…
Ahhh. September. Warm days, cool nights. Hopefully, you are reading this column, sitting outside, enjoying the fruits (and sights) of your har…
I have about a dozen books that chronicle the history of gardens, and they all follow a familiar template.
SEVILLE, Spain (AP) — As pretty much everywhere else, the coronavirus pandemic has meant more time at home for Spaniards. For many of those fu…
NEW YORK — It wasn’t just toilet paper that people stocked up on during the pandemic. There was a run on houseplants, too.
The weather has gotten weirder and more unpredictable, but there is a small way that gardeners can take more control: finding and exploiting m…
MARSHFIELD, Vt. (AP) — It’s the time of year when gardeners are turning their ripe tomatoes into sauces and salsas and cucumbers into pickles.
If you’ve ever wondered where those vegetable seeds you sow come from, the answer of late seems to be in mysterious little packages from somew…
Ahhh. September. Warm days, cool nights. Hopefully, you are reading this column, sitting outside, enjoying the fruits (and sights) of your har…
I have about a dozen books that chronicle the history of gardens, and they all follow a familiar template.
SEVILLE, Spain (AP) — As pretty much everywhere else, the coronavirus pandemic has meant more time at home for Spaniards. For many of those fu…
NEW YORK — It wasn’t just toilet paper that people stocked up on during the pandemic. There was a run on houseplants, too.
Put a “wow” in your radishes by growing winter varieties.
Put a “wow” in your radishes by growing winter varieties.
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After a sudden split from her husband of 10 years, Stevie McFadden discovered firsthand that our surroundings play an influential role during …
There were plenty of acorns this spring, and now the chipmunks are driving people nuts.
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In early June I had the opportunity to attend the Young’s Plant Farm 2020 Trial Garden Tour, which is one of the most prestigious plant trials…
If you want to avoid chemical weedkillers but don’t like the idea of hand hoeing or bouncing along behind a rototiller, you still have options…
Squeezing the most out of summer — especially this coronavirus summer — has often meant eating and entertaining outside, for those with the sp…
Seems that nearly all of our Master Gardener columns deal with what/where to plant, when/how to divide, or ways to attack those darn invasives…
As the coronavirus pandemic puts a damper on summer, there’s one thing continuing to thrive in Frederick County: gardens.
After a sudden split from her husband of 10 years, Stevie McFadden discovered firsthand that our surroundings play an influential role during …
There were plenty of acorns this spring, and now the chipmunks are driving people nuts.
August is the month for two garden W’s: weeding and watering. Regular attention to both keeps a vegetable or flower garden pretty and producti…
In early June I had the opportunity to attend the Young’s Plant Farm 2020 Trial Garden Tour, which is one of the most prestigious plant trials…
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Every year now, gardeners should be rethinking what they grow and where because of climate change, officials say.
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