Vegetable Gardening Rebirth
April 17th, 2008
Lots of people are getting into veggie-gardening for the first time… and it’s about time after this was fast becoming a lost art. Here’s why, plus a few thoughts and tips on giving it a shot.
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Favorite Past Garden Columns Category
Triage in the Garden
April 3rd, 2008
Triage is a battlefield and emergency-room term that describes how to prioritize care when you’ve got way more wounded than healers. Gardeners can relate to that when there’s so much to do once winter ends. Here’s a game plan on how to triage the yard work.
Groundhog Wars
March 20th, 2008
Trying to be kind to wildlife? Plant a vegetable garden, and you’ll make some groundhogs very happy. Of course if you want to actually eat the vegetables you plant, get ready for a scrappy contest.
Ice Damage to Trees
March 13th, 2008
Heavy snows and especially ice storms can do a lot of damage to trees and other landscape plants. Here’s a piece I wrote following one particularly bad ice year that explains how to minimize your exposure to damage.
Thanks (I Think) for Gardening
November 22nd, 2007
Here’s a Thanksgiving 2007 piece reminding us of all the things we have to be thankful for in the garden. Or do we?
State of Our Landscape Address
November 8th, 2007
Widespread under-confidence… planting the same old plants over and over again… winging it with the maintenance… switching to perennials only to find they’re as much work as annuals… these are some of the top issues I run into in my travels around central-Pa. yards. Some thoughts on those and more…
Feeding the Lawn
October 18th, 2007
Can you go green and still get green? Good lawns are quite possible – and usually healthier – without four-step programs that pump mass quantities of fertilizer all over the yard.
Gardening in the Twilight Zone
August 30th, 2007
One of the toughest times to have a good-looking yard is that period between when the flowers are petering out for the season but before bright fall foliage revives everything. This column offers some tips on how to garden in The Twilight Zone. Doo…DOO…doo…doo. Doo…DOO…doo…doo.
Troubles with Tomatoes
August 16th, 2007
It’s getting harder and harder to grow a decent tomato with all the diseases and other “challenges” out there. Here’s a rundown on what can go wrong and what to do about it.
A Rain Garden
August 9th, 2007
One of the latest trends that both adds beauty to landscapes and solves flooding and runoff problems is a rain garden. These are gardens built in slight depressions and planted with wet-soil-tolerant plants that are intentionally planned to keep rainwater on site instead of going into the storm-sewer systems (or the neighbor’s basement below you). Here’s a story on one built at West Hanover Twp.’s Fairville Park.