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Friends and other visitors here always admired the gate and arbor at the entrance to my vegetable garden more than I ever did. Built from cedar branches, it did have rustic charm. But to my eye, the wood looked too flimsy. And it was. Joints eventually loosened and as the gate sagged with age it had to be muscled open and shut.
I rebuilt that gate...
Don’t Pigeonhole Them
Look around your vegetable garden: Aren’t some of these plants pretty enough to be grown as ornamentals, perhaps shoulder to shoulder with marigolds, delphinium, and others in a flower garden or at the feet of shrubbery?
Imagine, if you will, a twining vine with sprays of scarlet flowers poking out from lime green foliage. The plant,...
So you planted a tree — perhaps a few trees — this spring. The first years those trees are in the ground, while permanent limbs are developing, are going to be important to their future strength and beauty. Pruning is one way to direct development, and the best time for this is when trees are small. Small cuts made on small trees leave correspondingly sma...
People tend to be too tolerant of their fruit trees, accepting them even if they bear poor or no fruit. Perhaps it’s the snowball of blossoms in spring that makes a lack of edible fruit later in the season acceptable. Of course, if a tree is young and not yet of flowering age, the barren plant can be forgiven. But pinpointing the reason why yo...
You wouldn’t eat as much pie as you would bread, would you? So don’t ever feed your plants without considering how rich their food — fertilizer — is. Urea, for example, is the plant food equivalent of a chocolate bar, a very rich food, rich enough so that a whole cup could kill a rose bush. Near the other extreme might be bone meal, the unbutt...