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• Montrose

  

  A week or two ago I made a visit to Montrose, a garden on the National Register of Historic Places.The 61-acre property has been owned and maintained by Nancy... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2013 GARDENING

• Homemade Composter: Upcycled Pickle Barrel

  

  I have never met a gardener who believed she had enough compost.English: A picture of compost soil (Photo credit: Wikipedia)In the past, I have generated my... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2013 GARDENING

• Growing Garlic at Home

  We at the MHM household run through tons of garlic. Between heavy habits of Italian, Mexican, and Asian foods, and our semi-regular practice of roasting a... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2013 GARDENING

• My New Favorite Fruit: Persimmons

  

  I have been reading and rereading Lee Reich’s Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden, becoming increasingly obsessed with acquiring and growing fruits unknown or... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2013 GARDENING

• Preserving Summer: Crock Pot Cherry Tomato Sauce

  

  In the community garden where I work, yellow pear tomatoes grow abundantly. They don’t seem to be terribly popular, though, with many people besides me.I adore... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2013 GARDENING

• Growing Winter Greens

  

  I took advantage of dreary weather earlier this week and sowed some seed.Two varieties of spinach (‘Regiment’ and ‘Noble Giant’), cilantro, mache, and chervil.I... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2013 GARDENING

• Glorious Fall

  

  It rained all last week, and it looks as though this week may serve up more of the same. I believe, though, that those dreary skies may be just what my peach... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2013 GARDENING

• Cutting Down the Cutting Garden

  

  I really want to have a cutting garden, but I don’t think I have enough sun. I made tiny steps toward one this summer: successful zinnia culture (usually the... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2013 GARDENING

• Grow Write Guild #13: Garden, and Gardener, in Transition

  

  The prompt for Grow Write Guild #13 is to write about the topic of the garden’s end or transition.I am fortunate to live in a horticultural haven: USDA Zone... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 GARDENING

• Planning and Planting for Monarchs

  

  Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus Proboscis 2591px (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Now that fall is here, and life in the garden is beginning to slow down (ever so... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2013 GARDENING

• Sasanqua Season

  

  It’s Camellia sasanqua season. Mine have just started to bloom.These evergreen shrubs, which are hardy in USDA Zones 7-9, are less well known than their... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2013 GARDENING

• O Water, Where Art Thou?

  

  A brief tutorial on water gardening for the novice:Do: Add plants to your water garden.Don’t: Forget to prune them occasionally.Do: Use bricks to support plante... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2013 GARDENING

• Savoring Summer

  

  I am completely inexpert at preserving what grows in my garden. But I have resolved to start learning.I’m starting simply: chives. What could be easier to grow? Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 GARDENING

• Preserving the Harvest

  

  Humans aren’t the only ones harvesting and preserving at this time of year.Bees are taking full advantage of the heavy bloom of asters and chrysanthemums. I... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 GARDENING

• A New Obsession: Edible Groundcover

  

  Vaccinium vitis-idaea, photo taken in Sweden. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)I adore fruit of all kinds, and I am glad to have a small (but growing) collection of... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2013 GARDENING

• I Love This Plant: Northern Sea Oats, Chasmanthium Latifolium

  

  I found this plant, Chasmanthium latifolium, growing under our magnolia tree, of all places. Magnolia grandiflora. Nothing grows under these trees. Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2013 GARDENING

• Anemones: Not Driving Me Crazy, for the Moment.

  

  I wrote in response to a prompt from the Grow Write Guild that anemones are a challenging plant for me. Well, thanks to an absurd amount of rainfall this... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2013 GARDENING

• Slow Food Lunch

  

  It is entirely fair to say that as a grower of fruit at home, my ambition and enthusiasm exceed my talent and success. So when I happened to look out the... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2013 GARDENING

• Perpetual Caterpillar Season

  

  I had thought the caterpillar season was over.As I was weeding the blue slope the other evening, I noticed tons of them on the spindly remains of my bronze... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2013 GARDENING

• Different Fall Colors

  

  When I think “autumn colors,” this isn’t what typically springs to my mind:But I love it. Turns out my early spring pruning job produced the promised results. Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2013 GARDENING