Gardening for Health and Nutrition: An Introduction to the Method of Biodynamic Gardening: Introduction to the Method of Biodynamic Gardening Inaugurated by Rudolf Steiner
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | yesterday
There's a new biography of Molly Ivins - called Molly Ivins, a Rebel Life by Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith - and it's on my Christmas Wish List. Here in a review I found this reminder of her ability...
Snappy's Gardens Blog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
These are some colourful things in the garden. The Blue Flower is a Polyanthus that has survived all across the Summer and is flowering now. I bought them in the Spring to add some colour to our new garden. The flower is a welcome splash of colour during the cold wet days. It is forecast sleet tonight, snow thats not quite thickened. Like a Slush Puppy? There are four Polyanthus plants so hopefully...
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Pansies this week in an alley in Saratoga Springs, NY. There are so many of them growing in such a narrow crack between the wall and pavement that I'm assuming they are self-seeded, possibly from the window box above.
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
I'm here in New Jersey with my family for Thanksgiving. I'm grateful for the family part. New Jersey, less so. I've been unhappy with the state of yard-dom in the Garden State since I was five. If I were queen,...
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
My favorite holiday-season light displays are the ones put on by our great public gardens. Longworth comes to mind, and Lewis Ginter in Virginia. And here in Maryland it feels like magic in the Brookside Gardens' Garden of Lights with...
Colors Of The Garden (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Garden Meditations by Max Coots Let us give thanks for a bounty of people. For children who are our second planting, and though they grow like weeds and the wind too soon blows them away, may they forgive us our cultivation and fondly remember where their roots are. Let us give thanks: For generous friends...with hearts...and smiles as bright as their blossoms; For feisty friends, as tart as apples;...
Lawn Sprinkler Tips (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
In this short video clip I show two example of how to replace a nozzle on a typical spray head. Sprays or spray heads are the type of sprinklers that pop up and stay stationary or don't move. I am in the first example, which shows a lot closer view of the process because my old partner Sean was recording the video and did a great job. The second example shows a farther away view with a different angle...
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
In response to my post about garden photographers bringing in some extra cash by selling their art as notecards or in some other artsy format, I heard from Jeff Friesen, who offers prints of his work for sale through his...
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I went to the farmer's market this weekend and bought everything that looked good. It's the last market of the season--they always hold out until the weekend before Thanksgiving so we can have one last great meal with the local...
Lawn Sprinkler Tips (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
In this video below, I explain how to use a pvc fitting known as a slip fix, or quick fix (same thing) to repair a broke pvc pipe. Some people also call these "expansion fittings." I feel that these fittings are better than compression couplings (for pipes under 3") and you do use pvc glue and a coupling in additon to the slip fix pvc . When I first discovered these types of fittings...
Cold Climate Gardening (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Why do I garden? Why does an artist paint? Why does a pianist spend days practicing for an hour long concert? The truth is, I don’t know why I garden. I don’t know why I have an affinity for plants, a need to see them thrive, a hungering for their beauty. As a child, I [...]
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Personally, I couldn't care less whether there's a blue rose or not, but please don't try to pawn this off as one. Bleh!
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
H. helix 'Ritterkreuz' is one of many slow-growing, well-behaved ivies that are good for containers. It is also the Ivy of the Year, 2010. Photo by Rachel Cobb, courtesy of www.ivy.org. While researching this topic recently, I was surprised to...
Snappy's Gardens Blog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
This Dianthus is still flowering. A Bud of rolled petals was uncurling in the garden today. It looks like a little Rose. The garden has been battered overnight by strong winds and torrential rain. I'm back to work tonight so my gardening time will be looking in the morning before bed. I have left lots of dried seed heads and stems, simply so there is something to look at. The bird feeders continue...
Garden Rant (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Remember last winter when there was much speculation over who would be the Obamas' kitchen gardener, and even a website appearing to be taking job applications? (And it was taken very seriously.) I joined in just enough to lobby for...
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