Northern Gardening

I couldn’t help but notice that a pair of monarchs was mating in the grass next to the garden I was weeding today. I had kind of assumed that this wasn’t a very long process, but it went on pretty much the whole time I was outside–over two hours!  It looked a lot like butterfly [...]

Today was one of the most anticipated days of the entire growing season.  I ate my first homegrown tomatoes!  I don’t have a lot of tomato plants, but I am growing a few heirloom varieties including the Nyagous that I ate for lunch today.  They were delicious and almost worth the long wait.  Nyagous is [...]

I consider every flower in my garden to be precious and when I do decide to cut some stems for flower arrangements, I want them to last more than just a few days; otherwise, it isn’t worth my while to leave even a small hole in my borders.
One of the most important things you can [...]

The news about the BP Oil Disaster just gets worse everyday and it really feels like there is nothing we can do to stop it. Yes, we can’t stop the BP pipe from gushing gallons of oil into the Gulf, but there are many things that gardener’s can do to prevent another huge oil disaster in the future. Gardeners can make a big difference just by making more informed choices about how we garden and where we buy our produce.

I just posted new photos of my gardens from last season (2009). This was my twelfth season and as always there were changes to my gardens. The biggest project was redoing a large area that had been shade plants until we cut down several large Siberian elms. Now that it was bright and sunny I [...]