By Paul Weideman When the springtime comes again, gardeners will be getting their hands dirty -- more than likely with vegetable starts. "A lot of people are thinking about planting vegetable gardens," said David Salman of Santa Fe Greenhouses. "For most of the last decade or two, the interest in vegetable plants has been down, but it's been going up since last year. A lot of people are interested in home food production, which includes fruit trees and berry plants and grapes.
... Home magazine cited the National Gardening Association's prediction that the number of Americ... 100 kinds of penstemons, a native, perennial wildflower in which owner Bob Pennington specializ...
With Christmas and New Year's celebrations behind you, there is time to sit down and look through the hefty pile of garden catalogs that has accumulated over the past month. Now, instead of visions of sugarplums dancing in your head, these gardeners' wish-books can create visions of picture-perfect gardens to dance in your mind and an urge to fill out an order right away.
... the whole gardening gamut: flower and vegetable seed, perennial plants, shrubs, ornamental trees a...
With Christmas and New Year's celebrations behind you, there is time to sit down and look through the hefty pile of garden catalogs that has accumulated over the past month. Now, instead of visions of sugarplums dancing in your head, these gardeners' wish-books can create visions of picture- perfect gardens to dance in your mind and an urge to fill out an order right away.
...Some cover the whole gardening gamut: flower and vegetable seed, perennial plants...
My husband is the landscape gardener in the family. He builds flower beds, sets drip lines, administers mulch, and ferries plants back and forth from one end of the yard to the other, spreading glorious blossoms in his wake. All summer he happily accepts compliments from neighbors who stroll by on their evening walk. As the vegetable gardener in the family, tending a 20-by-20-foot plot of rocky soil in a backyard, I toil away in anonymity. Growing anything in the high plains of the Rocky Mountains is a challenge. This is arid ground, made of clay or sand, with a thin veneer of topsoil. It takes years of patience to amend the soil and remove the rocks; growing a vegetable garden is especially tough.
...My husband has become a master of perennial flower gardening. Once planted, perennials come up...
LEAVES, leaves, leaves. I'm going to try something called a "compost sandwich" using some of the billions of leaves that have fallen in the past few weeks. If you're building new garden beds, or just enriching the old ones, make compost sandwiches on top of them now. Also called sheet composting, or lasagna gardening, it's simple and makes wonderful, loamy soil. The key is to alternate between "greens" (nitrogen- based plant material such as fruit and vegetable scraps, grass clippings, coffee grounds, tea bags, and perennial plant clippings) and "browns" (carbon-based plant material, such as leaves, twigs, wood chips, straw, shredded newsprint and cardboard).
Even in an online world, sometimes a person needs to hold a real book especially a gardener. In winter we actually sit down occasionally, just to imagine -- next season, a new design, the plants we crave. Garden writers inspire us. Pictures help. Out of thousands of gardening books, only some stand the test of time. Look at a gardener's bookshelf and you'll see just a few books that are worn, muddy and sprout bits of paper (or weeds) to mark their pages. (I've been so proud to see my own book, presented for a signature, as mud-stained as the gardener's hands.)
...Perennial classics. For the perennial gardener, some books h...: 300 Great Ideas for Growing Flowers, Vegetables and Herbs by editors and contributors of Fine Ga...
-H High Point winners High point novice -- Katie Frybarger
... 2: poster with two samples of dried vegetables. Senior. 1. Amber Frybarger. Unit 2: jar tomatoes....Gardening, flowers. 10 mounted annuals. Senior. 1. (tie) Eli...Exhibit about annuals. and perennials. Senior. 1. Amber Frybarger. Three mounted. perenn...
BLUE HILL -The Blue Hill Public Library will hold a plant sale on the library lawn from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 23. Perennial divisions, vegetable and flower seedlings, soft fruit canes, shrubs, trees and house plants donated by library friends and patrons will be for sale along with baked goods, drinks and used gardening books. Potted and labeled plant donations may be left until Friday, May 22, on the lawn by the library doors leading to the parking lot. All proceeds benefit the library, which is located in the center of Blue Hill.
For a number of years, one of the buzzwords in gardening has been "sustainability." It seems like just about every other new gardening book, magazine and television show has been about sustainable gardening, at least in part. But what does it mean? There are a lot of definitions floating about. Here's one: "Sustainability is the concept that man can achieve his social and economic goals without damaging the environment or endangering either biodiversity or natural ecosystems.
... trees, shrubs, lawns, and flower and vegetable gardens. We can compost weeds, kitchen vegetable a...When you select a new perennial, shrub or tree, consider using those that are xeri...
When many of us are putting away holiday decorations or rewriting New Year's resolutions, Barbara R. H. James is studying her seed catalogs, preparing an order for flower and vegetable seeds. James isn't just interested in gardening, she has the distinction of being a Master Gardener Volunteer for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County. To earn that title, she was selected in 2007 for the training program taught by Cornell Cooperative Extension educators and horticulture specialists.
... from impatiens and marigolds and perennial flowers to tomatoes, eggplant, broccoli, peppers a...
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