If you have a gardener (or garden lover) on your holiday gift list, you may be wondering what might make them smile during a season when the garden is buried beneath the snow.
There’s an old saying, “Good things come in small packages.” That’s certainly true of the tiny flowers that bloom in the spring. And fall is the perfect time to plant these bulbs.
Did you know that the composition of the soil in raised beds is vital to their success?
Before taking a rest from gardening for the season, have you thought of direct sowing seeds to grow a minimal-care garden next spring?
Garlic grows well in many different soils and climates, but only varieties that are hardy and adapted to the Northeast will perform well here.
It was a special day last summer when a young family was able to move into their brand-new Vergennes home — the latest project undertaken by Habitat for Humanity of Addison County.
This autumn has surely been one of the most beautiful I can remember since Dick and I made our home in Goshen — over 25 years ago.
It’s the time of year when strangely-shaped, multi-colored, warty gourds begin to appear in gardens, markets, CSA boxes and on front porches.
If you’ve passed the flower garden at the Weybridge end of the Pulp Mill Bridge recently, you may have thought it looks unkempt, even dead. Not so, exclaim its gardeners.
Every year the Middlebury Garden Club gives awards to public and private gardens in Addison County. To be considered, a garden must be able to be seen from the roadside and cannot belong to a current member of the club.
While doing your fall yard clean-up, envision and decide on an area for a new flower or vegetable garden or a space to relax.
Did you know that many houseplants sold in stores are actually tropical perennials?
Summer ends and all those lovely annuals we’ve grown so fond of will soon come to an end, too. But it doesn’t have to be.
It’s a good time to step back and think about the bigger picture. A question to consider is why do we clear out our gardens before the winter? What’s the purpose?
“There’s something calming for me about getting my hands in the dirt,” Jenne Morton told me recently.
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