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August 2007 Archives
6:24 PM Fri, Aug 31, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine  Email
I’m going slightly off piste today, but how we treat the land is a part of gardening. So just play along. The gardeners will be back next week. I’ve noticed as I walk around my local greenmarket that more people......
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10:45 AM Thu, Aug 30, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Judy Marcellot Email
There are two main categories of bamboo -- running and clumping. As I wrote earlier in Bamboo Part 1, running bamboo really does take off! This can be a good thing in the right circumstances. Take the case of a......
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7:47 AM Tue, Aug 28, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Beth Heaney Email
Corn relish! It doesn't offer the same physical enjoyment as grinding away at a cob and getting your chin all buttered up -- and you can't use those little yellow corncob handles to eat it -- but it's certainly a......
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11:52 AM Mon, Aug 27, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
The newborn Zen Garden. The thought of having a little Zen-influenced garden has been with me for a long time. I started the project right after my return from the trip to Thailand, around mid-July. A Zen Garden, to......
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5:46 PM Fri, Aug 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
As my family was having dessert on the porch at my parents’ house a couple of weeks ago, a hummingbird nipped down, dipped into the Bishop of Llandaff dahlias and the bee balm and whisked off. Just long enough for......
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7:52 PM Wed, Aug 22, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Pat Feinstein Email
Bamboo was one of the ‘Must Have’ list when I embarked on my gardening journey in 1987. There’s something special and universal about Bamboo. With my Asian root, how can I not have Bamboo, one of the 4 ‘Noble......
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11:22 AM Tue, Aug 21, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Since we've all grown as mute as our ripening tomatoes, you might want to look at our long-running Garden Blogs list, which simply by being and linking is the number one Google result when you search for garden blogs. (Take......
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5:36 PM Fri, Aug 17, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
I just got around to opening my copy of The Garden, the journal of the Royal Horticultural Society. As someone who managed to buy a house that's 100 percent in the shade, I have to temper my enthusiasm with practicality.......
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9:38 AM Thu, Aug 16, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
I planted a few seeds from a packet of assorted morning glories in the garden at the edge of the deck, and as they grew Joe strung heavy twine up to the top of the screen porch for them......
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2:34 PM Tue, Aug 14, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Judy Marcellot Email
Timber bamboo like this won't get this big here in New England. The culm diameter will reach about 2.5 inches here. We began our gardening adventure/life 27 years ago by selling herb plants, almost exclusively. One has to start......
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11:05 AM Thu, Aug 09, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Beth Heaney Email
Last week, I'd hoped to get to my favorite blueberry patch to pick another 10 pounds or so of blueberries, but in calling ahead, found out they were nearly cleaned out after an onslaught of pickers over the weekend. I'd......
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1:27 PM Tue, Aug 07, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Rudolph A. Hempe Email
The URI Master Gardener Demonstration Vegetable Barder is located next to the field house at East Farm. Kingston -- After a hiatus of five years, URI Master Gardeners are resuming their Demonstration Vegetable Garden Open House on Saturday, August......
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2:19 PM Mon, Aug 06, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Judy Marcellot Email
(Our newest Garden Blogger is Judy Marcellot who, with her husband Michel, owns Seven Arrows Farm in Attleboro, Mass. Their first book, Sacred Gardens, was published July 15.) After 25 years of gardening for a living here at our small......
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5:45 PM Fri, Aug 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Dave Weyermann Email
For about eleven-and-one-half months of the year, the night blooming cereus is one ugly plant. It is basically a stick. Long and leggy, it needs to be supported by a trellis ( or tied to the porch railing as......
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12:28 PM Fri, Aug 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
This is Squash Balmoral, a new introduction from Park. Since it's its first year, I thought I'd put some images out there. Today, the first squash on this plant is 4 inches in diameter. Since they're advertised as producing......
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10:08 AM Fri, Aug 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Mortgage Lifter Tomato at Monticello: The Mortgage Lifter tomato was developed in the early 1930's in Logan, West Virginia by a radiator repairman, M.C. "Radiator Charlie" Byles. Without any experience in breeding, he made a successful cross of four......
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8:54 AM Fri, Aug 03, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Beth Heaney Email
Recently someone asked me how I got to love gardening and I didn't have to think too hard to come up with an answer. My grandparents on my dad's side were Italian and they were both "out in the yard"......
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2:15 PM Wed, Aug 01, 2007 | Permalink |
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By Paula Constantine Email
I just received a book that some of you might be interested in. Giant Tomatoes: How to grow giant tomatoes, and lots of little ones too, by Marvin H. Meisner, M.D ($19.95). They previously published a book about giant pumpkins.......
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