Happy Thanksgiving everyone! It might sound a bit cliché, but it really is the perfect time of year to count our blessings and give thanks for what matters to us.
Well, I finally got around to digging the rest of the potatoes, and I managed to find another 5-gallon bucket full of them.
We finally got a few hard frosts last week. Funny how it always seems to happen just after my pineapple sage starts to flower.
I can’t believe how many things I still have blooming in the garden—the most beautiful of which are my Venus mums.
Garlic! I’m strangely excited by the idea introduced to me by a gardening friend: He says to plant your garlic bulbs "under the dark of the moon.”
Bring butterflies to your garden by giving them access to puddles.
Decision made. I am not going to plant a cover crop in the vegetable garden this year.
Gino shows off the huge Porcini mushroom he foraged this year. It’s a good fall for collecting mushrooms this year. My wife and I drove up into the mountains this week to attend an agricultural festival, and the side of the road on the way up was dotted with the parked cars of mushroom hunters. We saw […]
On a very exciting note, we have invited a landscape architect friend of mine (we went to college together) to come over and redesign our back patio and gardens.
Autumn has barely arrived, and the leaves have already started to drop around here.
I was lucky enough last weekend to spend a day at the Cleveland Botanical Garden with my mother and a group of gardening friends.
