The beginnings of strawberry season, our first garlic scape sightings, and our first tomato of the season have followed one upon the other.The tomato is fruit of one of the Glacier heirloom started plants that I purchased from Four Winds Farm. Glacier is a known early producer and it had ..
Friday night, we attended a nice night out with friends, gathered to celebrate the birthday of our mutual friend, Amy. Linda and I sat at one end of the long table with friend Kirsten and her lovely 3-year old boy, Will. Will and I spent the evening playing with the toy "digger" (backhoe) he ..
We don't plant a lot of flowers around our house. At least not yet we haven't. We have planted marigolds and nasturtiums in the vegetable garden in the past. And we have echinaecia in our herb garden and usually a planter or two hanging from our front porch. And we have yearnings to do more. ..
Last night, we enjoyed our first fresh-from-the-garden salad of the year: baby spinach, baby arugula, mizuna (Japanese mustard green), and some bunching onions (scallions) that had overwintered from last year's garden tossed with store-bought red onion, black olives, and feta cheese. Dressed ..
Lee Reich, author of several organic gardening and tree growing books (and one of my gardening mentors) holds his annual garden and plant sale on May 29 (5:30pm-7pm) and May 30 (9am-11:30am) at 387 Springtown Road, New Paltz (255-0417).His ad in the Woodstock Times touts "currants, gooseberries, ..