I spent one afternoon last week with my son visiting Jennings Prairie, a restored prairie in Pennsylvania.
"Dirt on Gardening" blogger Jessica Walliser demonstrates how to divide a perennial plant to spread around the garden or share with a friend.
"Dirt on Gardening" blogger Jessica Walliser walks you through how to arrange ornamental plants in a container for a eye-pleasing design.
I am experimenting this year with allowing my spring-planted lettuce and radish to develop and drop their own seeds.
Rose hips, also called rose haws, are the bright-red fruit of rose plants both tame and wild.
Ginger is easily propagated and grown, so why not add it to your garden?
This has been a great year for our flowering trees. Although many of them were planted just last year, they were stellar bloomers this spring.
Photo by Judith Hausman This basic shiitake mushroom saute pairs well with almost any carbohydrate. Another project at my farm garden is inoculating logs with shiitake mushroom spores for a crop of meaty mushrooms. Before the more Mediterranean vegetables come in around here, earthy shiitake mushrooms are a treat with all the other early vegetables. […]
Wild roses always have five petals—no more, no less—and while most are pink, some are white, yellow or red.
Our strawberries were lousy this year. The fruits were puny, bland, and few and far between. I couldn't even harvest enough to make a single batch of strawberry jam—and I know why: Our strawberry patch needs a makeover.
As usual, there’s so much work to be done in the garden that I can barely keep up! One of the tasks I've been delaying (simply because it's one of my least favorites) is deadheading.
I have spent a good amount of time this spring searching my yard for insects. I have a new book in the works with Timber Press about beneficial insects and am shooting many of the pictures myself.
