Backyard Gardening

Gardening Through the Year! In June the focus of your garden shifts from planting to harvesting and preserving.  Strawberries and mulberries ripen now.  Spinach, lettuce, broccoli, all other [...]

Gardening Through the Year! It is hard to pick a favorite gardening month or gardening activity for that matter, but May combines the joy of setting out seedlings, planting seeds, harvesting [...]

Gardening Through the Year! Harvesting in April is one of the best surprises of gardening here in the Northeast.  The snow recedes and the ground begins to warm and suddenly there can be food [...]

Gardening Through the Year! Gardening has many challenges and and waiting through the month of March is one of them.  Every March is different -- almost all come in like a lion.  When the lamb [...]

Gardening Through the Year! Once upon a time there was a lawn, green and lush, well fertilized and safe from broad leaf intruders.  In the spring, as the days grew longer it began to grow [...]

Gardening Through the Year! It is time again for New Year’s Resolutions.  Lose weight.  Become more self-sufficient.  Spend less money on food.  Get outside more.  Spend more time in family [...]

Gardening Through the Year! Boy, is it dark out there and cold!  What is a gardener to do when there is no light, the ground is frozen, snow covers everything and the tools are put away.  [...]

Gardening Through the Year! It was a beautiful November day today.  It was sunny, about 50 with little wind.  I had been wanting to get out into the garden for days, but it was chilly, windy [...]

Gardening Through the Year! When we first moved here (early '70's), I believed that the gardening season was over when the weather turned cold.  Each year I tried new things to get a few more [...]

Gardening Through the Year! September is a month for harvesting, second only to August.  With the cooler days and nights and shorter days the spring crops grow with vigor.  Some seedlings [...]