Cultivated--or even wild--asparagus is an elegant, but hardy plant to offers more than meets the eye to eager gardeners everywhere.
Call them nature’s avengers - these botanical pesticides that come from the plants themselves are some of the most potent pesticides.
Too early! I regularly push the spring season, and I enjoy the machismo of having the first tomatoes in town.
I desperately need to clean out our little pond and waterfall.
St. Patrick’s Day is the traditional time for planting peas in my area, but I’ve only managed to actually plant them on that date once in the past 10 years.
I knew it all along, and I’ll bet you did as well: the animals we share our hearts and homes with have personalities, too.
Hooray! It’s the seventh day of March and my fava beans have finally started to bloom.
I’m getting antsy. Spring is almost officially here which means that very, very soon there will be dirt under my nails.
Awhile back I discovered a forgotten ball of yarn in the little box on my spinning wheel.
Last week I encouraged attending local farm shows. However, like the side effect warnings in pharmaceutical commercials, I should have warned you about the pitchmen.
When I was growing up, country life revolved around county and state fairs.
