Helping Gardeners Grow

This one looks active! I don’t remember the exact date a groundhog first clawed its way into the greenhouse last year, but it fe...

Parsley has germinated, at last! I'm taking a break (procrastinating) from the next thesis-related post to share the joys of germinat...

My microgreens are giving me trouble. For months the routine was, well, routine. Fill seed trays with soil mix; sprinkle seeds libe...

Equipped with thousands of tiny teeth the furtive slug rasps through bok choy, leaving a trail of slime behind. The mollusks even find thei...

For two months I’ve been meaning to post this photo of my beautiful new flagstone patio, built by my son Kevin of 14-acre Fa...

Tomato season has barely begun, but I have a good feeling about the 2011 AAS winning hybrids, ‘Terenzo’ and ‘Lizzano’.  Time will tell...

“The rose is a rose, And was always a rose …”  So wrote Robert Frost.  But roses have many poses. One may ...