Berry Patch: 'Thou shalts' and 'Thou shalt nots' of strawberry planting

Delivery box of strawberry plants As my bundle of 25 Allstar strawberry plants sat in our refrigerator while I waited for our rar…

Berry Patch: Grow strawberries again?

Should I plant another bed? Decisions, decisions, decisions.  For 10 years or so I’ve grown strawberries here at Meadow Glenn.  T…

Newspaper ‘clippings’ about gardening

Ready to sit back and enjoy recent Washington Post gardening columns?  Here are six you might find interesting: Become a garden a…

Outfoxing furry critters in your garden

Mama and pup Wouldn’t it be great if you could find a no-cost, natural, sustainable way to control furry critters that eat your g…

Stink Bugs: Update from the Washington Post

“Stink Bugs Migrating to the Deep South” by Darryl Fears in today’s Washington Post gives an update on what’s happening in battle…

Tomato Patch: Soil secrets revealed!

University of Delaware soil test kit includes instructions and mailer Do you know what your blood pressure is—and what the calciu…

Frugal Gardener: Cutting lettuce in March

Red Sails lettuce cut Mar. 2 It was beautiful—the head of Red Sails lettuce I cut Friday when Ellen said we needed lettuce for ou…

Washington Post columns about vegetable gardening

Here are links to four recent Washington Post columns by Barbara Damrosch and Adrian Higgins on vegetable gardening.  Damrosch wr…

Super Bowl Sacrifice

Red Sails lettuce in mini-greenhouse, Feb. 5 Ellen and I were assembling ingredients for our Super Bowl treat—a six-layer dip. Gu…

Stink Bugs: New research findings

Stink bugs destroying two of our tomatoes What have scientists learned during the last year in studies of the brown marmorated st…

Frugal Gardener: Seed catalog(s) revelation!

Does the Frugal Gardener in you get irritated when you see five packets of seeds you want to buy in one catalog but the sixth pac…

Frugal Gardener: Free coffee-shop garden kits

Free garden kit begins at your favorite coffee shop Hey, Frugal Gardeners, when you next shell out a buck or two for a morning co…

January supermarket surprise

Giant surprise! Surprise!  Just beyond the stacks of bags of potatoes and onions and next to tropical houseplants and the “balloo…

Beets, carrots, turnips: One last supper

Last Harvest from Garden 2011 When I heard the temperature was going to drop into the low 20s just after New Year’s, I took a buc…

Winter solace in our raspberry bed

Raspberry bed before cutting & weeding Yes, I did mean “solace,” not “solstice.”  Solstice was last month.  Solace was two ho…

Jim's row cover protects kale into January

Jim M. pulls back row cover that protects kale After Irene M. of Columbia noticed a mention of row covers in my recent posting ab…

Frugal Gardener: Greenhouseperhaps becomes mini-greenhouse

Frosted greenhouseperhaps after December 29 flurries We’ve had temperatures as low as 22°F and snow flurries in late October and …

Gardeners, rejoice!

Today, Thursday, December 22, has the shortest day and longest night of the year.  Yesterday, today, and tomorrow all have nine h…

Seed Catalog: R. H. Shumway’s Illustrated Garden Guide

Step right back, ladies and gentlemen, into the nineteenth century.  Turn the oversize pages of Shumway’s Illustrated Garden Guid…