Category: Gardening


How to Garden Wrap-Up and Gallery: England's Beautiful Gardens How To Garden: Inspiration from The Beth Chatto Garden, Essex, England How to Garden: Saving Cuttings for Next Year Modern Country: Loving Lavender How to Garden: It's Hot Now, But Can Tropical Plants Endure the Rest of Our Climate?  How To Garden: How Grows It?  How to Garden: Get Inspired with Garden Tourism Modern Country: Unexpected Arrangements How to Garden: Vermiculture -- Composting With Worms Question of the Week: Manual Push vs Powered Lawn Mowers -- Does Convenience Trump Green?  How to Garden: Strawberry Time How to Garden: Haven't You Always Wanted a Water Feature?  Makeover: From Untamed Wild to Blooming Garden  How to Garden: Rose Fright Outdoor Dilemma: Carson Arthur on "Trenching" to Help Trees Recover from Construction  
 
Aug
29

How to Garden Wrap-Up and Gallery: England's Beautiful Gardens

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 8/29/2010 9:20:00 AM
Why is summer like chocolate? So lovely and indulgent while it lasts, but always seems to melt away too soon? (I shouldn't get started on chocolate actually...) I'm going on like this because whether I like it on, the calendar says summer is packing its
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Aug
20

How To Garden: Inspiration from The Beth Chatto Garden, Essex, England

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Posted by Guest Blogger 8/20/2010 10:50:00 AM
By Veronica Sliva For me, my garden is one of my greatest pleasures. And though I love tending it, I love visiting the gardens of others even more. I am always inspired and take away tidbits and images worth remembering. I am very lucky to be able to
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Aug
13

How to Garden: Saving Cuttings for Next Year

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Posted by Guest Blogger 8/13/2010 2:11:00 PM
By Veronica Sliva From now until frost I take cuttings of plants that I want to “keep over” for next year. There are a few of reasons I like to do this. One is that I love the plant (or the person who gave it to me) so much that I can’t imagine not having
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Aug
12

Modern Country: Loving Lavender

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Posted by Guest Blogger 8/12/2010 9:31:00 AM
In the early summer, we harvest a lot of lavender here at Missing Goat Farm . We use it in our blueberry lavender jam, but we also save some for sachets. Seems my girl is hooked on it too. I'll be slipping a sachet in her pillow case tonight! I made a
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Aug
07

How to Garden: It's Hot Now, But Can Tropical Plants Endure the Rest of Our Climate?

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Posted by Guest Blogger 8/7/2010 12:10:00 AM
By: Veronica Sliva It’s Hot, Hot, Hot. Yes indeed. Positively tropical. Which reminds of my recent trip to England this past June. While there I visited Will Giles’s Exotic Garden in Norwich . As soon as I stepped into the garden I was transported to
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Jul
30

How To Garden: How Grows It?

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Posted by Guest Blogger 7/30/2010 2:53:00 PM
By: Veronica Sliva How is your garden growing? It’s mid-summer and by now you know if things are going well in your garden or not. What seemed like a good idea in late April may be a disaster by late July. Even though there’s lots of growing time left
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Jul
23

How to Garden: Get Inspired with Garden Tourism

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Posted by Guest Blogger 7/23/2010 5:21:00 PM
By: Veronica Sliva When I need to take a break from gardening (and who doesn’t from time to time?), I like to snoop into the gardens of others: garden tours . Thanks to garden tours, there is no shortage of great ideas to incorporate into my own humble
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Jul
22

Modern Country: Unexpected Arrangements

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Posted by Vanessa 7/22/2010 9:30:00 AM
We're big on flowers here at the farm. But one thing I like to do is use unexpected things from the garden that wouldn't be considered for an arrangement ; also things that wouldn't be used for a vase. One of my favourite things to pick and use is dill.
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Jul
16

How to Garden: Vermiculture -- Composting With Worms

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Posted by Guest Blogger 7/16/2010 9:32:00 AM
By: Veronica Sliva Keeping worms in the closet? It’s called vermiculture , or vermicomposting , and I got into it a couple of years ago when I was researching a story on a method of using worms to recycle organic waste into a soil conditioner. I decided
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Jul
12

Question of the Week: Manual Push vs Powered Lawn Mowers -- Does Convenience Trump Green?

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Posted by Elana Safronsky 7/12/2010 10:05:00 AM
Grass lawns aren't great for the environment (I bow my head in shame having recently re-sodded my lawn.) Opposing studies have played tug of war with lawn facts, with disheartening emissions studies finally neutering the argument that a grass lawn makes
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Jul
09

How to Garden: Strawberry Time

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Posted by Guest Blogger 7/9/2010 1:42:00 PM
By: Veronica Sliva Other than being an expert on eating them and doing the “pick your own” thing in my stay-at-home Mom days, my only experience with strawberries has been growing an ornamental variety called ‘Pink Panda’ (Fragaria x ananassa). Not intended
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Jul
02

How to Garden: Haven't You Always Wanted a Water Feature?

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Posted by Guest Blogger 7/2/2010 2:44:00 PM
By: Veronica Sliva I’m really ticked at the marauding raccoon that is trying to help himself to the fish in my pond. Which got me thinking…even though raccoons are a pain, no outdoor space should be without a bit of water -- it’s worth the aggravation.
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Jul
01

Makeover: From Untamed Wild to Blooming Garden

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Posted by Alicia Cox 7/1/2010 9:30:00 AM
I love how the flowers are growing towards the sun I've never been a gardener. I once killed a cactus. A cactus, people! They survive just fine in the desert, but oh no, one week at my house is too much. So this week's makeover is a gardening triumph
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Jun
25

How to Garden: Rose Fright

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Posted by Guest Blogger 6/25/2010 10:12:00 PM
By: Veronica Sliva I admit it. I've always avoided growing roses , feeling that they were too much trouble for my style of gardening (lazy.) On the odd occasion when I caved into temptation and planted a rose, I usually got so fed up with the blackspot
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Jun
23

Outdoor Dilemma: Carson Arthur on "Trenching" to Help Trees Recover from Construction

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Posted by Guest Blogger 6/23/2010 8:37:00 PM
I love a summer cameo from my favourite landscaping guru, Carson Arthur of Green Force . Though Glen Peloso is still our guy for Design Dilemmas , Carson has graciously answered an Outdoor Dilemma for one Theresa M., who sent in a question about her new,
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