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June 2007 Archives
3:31 AM Fri, Jun 29, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon  Email
Alice Greenfingers is a game of dig, plant, water, wait, box, sell. The downloadable demo -- Windows or Mac -- gives you an hour to decide if it's worth $19.95. There's a full review at JayIsGames. Here's a snippet......
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11:27 PM Tue, Jun 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
This seems another remnant of eras where people invented their own pastimes. The very idea of planting a garden whose flowers would tell the gardener -- and perhaps only the gardener knew the code -- that it was lunchtime or......
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1:06 AM Tue, Jun 26, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Karen Ziner Email
For all you gardeners and garden-lovers, there is a self-guided walking tour of West End gardens this Sunday from 11 to 1:30 p.m., sponsored by Urban Greens, which aims to provide affordable access to healthy, natural and sustainably produced foods......
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9:28 AM Sun, Jun 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Most supermarket garlic is softneck garlic, bred for keeping. This is Rocambole, mild hardneck "serpent" garlic that forms a bulb on the end of its curving flower stalk. But I don't want it to "flower" -- it will take......
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5:35 PM Fri, Jun 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
I read a lot of stuff in my job as Home and Garden editor. Our news wires stream stories from all over the country, even the world. Places like Texas, California and Florida might have some great garden writing, but......
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1:24 PM Fri, Jun 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Rudolph A. Hempe Email
Click photo to enlarge it The Chet Clayton Rose Garden at the University of Rhode Island's Kingston Campus is in full bloom. Named after Chester Clayton, a URI Master Gardener who donated the money for the rose garden, the......
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4:12 PM Thu, Jun 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
One of the frustrations of gardening is knowing the plants you want to grow but not knowing where to buy seedlings. (If only we had thought to start them in January!) One small step in the right direction comes from......
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2:52 PM Wed, Jun 20, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Dave Weyermann Email
Mesclun greens are pretty simple to grow and deliver a gourmet salad in a relatively short time. The ones I grew this year featured seven different types that all grow together because all the seeds are packed together. It......
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1:07 PM Mon, Jun 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Karen Bordeleau Email
Click photo to enlarge it. The roses are finally here -- a full two weeks after their usual bloom date -- but worth the wait! The two climbers in the front -- America roses -- were rudely interrupted by......
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12:45 PM Mon, Jun 18, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Rudolph A. Hempe Email
We all like strawberries but so do many critters. Birds are prime suspects if the berries have been "pecked" but chipmunks could be guilty too. In either case, netting is just about the only protection. Plastic netting is cheap and......
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12:33 PM Fri, Jun 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Rudolph A. Hempe Email
The late John Eccleston of North Kingstown, a Narragansett Electric employee who loved to garden, showed me his unique method of growing strawberries many years ago. He gathered good-sized rocks, 8-10 inches in diameter roughly, and arranged them touching one......
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11:03 AM Fri, Jun 15, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
The Bucket Method for Photographing Flowers. At Digital Photography School, The following tutorial on how to make and convert a bucket shield to give flowers some protection from the wind and a nice strong background was submitted by our......
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1:38 PM Thu, Jun 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
It has always been difficult for me to leave my garden whenever I have to take a trip, especially an extended one, during spring, summer or fall. I am leaving for Thailand this week. If the flowers could speak, they......
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12:20 PM Thu, Jun 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Plants can tell who's who: It's not just animals that can tell siblings from strangers. Interesting but not entirely surprising news in Nature: Telling apart relatives from strangers is crucial in many animal species, helping them to share precious resources......
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9:43 AM Wed, Jun 13, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
The raised bed now: Broccoli in the lower left with spinach; the tall leaves are garlic, the light green leaves are lettuce. (See it a month ago.) We used a side dressing of compost before planting, but have not......
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11:17 AM Tue, Jun 12, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Sweet pepper plant with tiny peppers grows next to a short white pea fence. Nasturtium, basil and snow peas can be seen behind it. (My husband made cutworm collars of sheet metal and rivets!) Our newest garden blogger, Rudi......
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3:07 PM Mon, Jun 11, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Rudolph A. Hempe Email
I just purchased two rain barrels and am amazed how fast they fill up from my down spouts. I have a modest-sized ranch house but during a recent light rainstorm even this small roof collected enough water to provide a......
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5:01 PM Fri, Jun 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
You've probably just read the previous couple of postings by the newest contributor to projo Garden Blog, Rudi Hempe. I don't think I've ever been at East Farm when he wasn't there, or wasn't expected soon. Any question the team......
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2:13 PM Fri, Jun 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Karen Bordeleau Email
Many gardeners have been beset by deer -- lovely animals that they are -- who spend too much of their time lunching in our yards. So, since Bambi and her bambinos literally deflowered my gardens of all impatiens and verbena......
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1:37 PM Fri, Jun 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Rudolph A. Hempe Email
The Demonstration Vegetable Garden at URI's East Farm campus will host an open house on August 11 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., rain or shine This 5,000-sq.-ft. garden is operated by URI Master Gardeners who are always trying out......
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1:33 AM Fri, Jun 08, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Rudolph A. Hempe Email
The "Gardening with the Masters" garden tour, sponsored every two years by URI Master Gardeners, will be held July 14 and 15. More than 30 gardens are included in the tour which will go on rain or shine. Tickets are......
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1:26 PM Thu, Jun 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
Organic mulches keep the soil moist and cool. Mulching helps making the task of weeding a bit easier. I have used quite a few truckloads and countless bags of mulch over the years. Now, I try to do ‘spot mulching’......
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2:15 PM Wed, Jun 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
All my attempts to grow catnip in the garden have been foiled by my cats, who just can't wait. So last year I grew it in a hanging basket, which worked beautifully, since Max and Miles couldn't reach it.......
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5:28 PM Tue, Jun 05, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
Budding tomato growers out there may be tempted to throw fertilizer at their young plants, hoping to get bigger plants and more fruits. But adding too much high-nitrogen fertilizer to the vegetable garden will just get you brutish, healthy green......
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2:01 AM Sun, Jun 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
The original Hope and the 3 Children in 1993. Once upon a time, there was a huge tree, supposedly 57 years old, at the corner of my front yard. I later learned that it actually came from three red......
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2:00 AM Sun, Jun 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Here's the Journal's 1993 story about the sculpture in guest garden-blogger Pat Feinstein's front yard in Providence. Her blog post today about the traffic-stopping wooden children and how they are now, with photos: The sculpture in Pat Feinstein's front garden:......
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5:40 PM Fri, Jun 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
I heard something interesting once. If you see a plant leafing or flowering really early in the season, it's bound to be a non-native species, getting the jump on its local neighbors in the race for resources and growing space.......
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1:31 AM Fri, Jun 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
I, too, am grateful to my Irises. Most of mine are of the bearded species. I have a good quantity of Siberian Iris in my backyard, but only a few Dutch Iris in the front. I hope to add......
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