Just a week ago the hillside was alight in orange, yellow, and red. Maples, birches, and ash loudly announcing autumn. Now those leaves are falling to the ground, and its the pines and hemlocks that stand out, their green amidst bare gray limbs and the last brassy orange still hanging onto deciduous branches. It’s another …
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August brings bounty, when seemingly every crop is ripe and every harvest basket heavy. Zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, beets, lettuces, onions, garlic, beans, new potatoes, and more. And I can’t forget about the basil, parsley, thyme, and sage, plus the cut flowers, brightening the fields and kitchen table. It’s a month when the end …
By mid-June the fields are filling up: Tomatoes, eggplants and peppers are firmly rooted in the greenhouse, while outside potatoes root into the soil, green beans stretch under row cover, kale and chard fan out, and countless heads of lettuce grow in their beds. And finally, after the flurry of May planting, we fall …
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When it comes to market farming and gardening, there’s no shortage of tools to pick from. And if you’re a tool geek like we are, you’re always searching for just the right thing to make your work easier and more efficient. We’ve tried out many tools in our years of growing, and these …
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I may be among the few who actually enjoy weeding. There’s a meditative quality to hoeing between rows of vegetables. It’s simple. The journey from one end of the bed to the other is straight. I can look up and see exactly how much progress I’ve made, and how much farther I have to …
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The first rule of the springtime garden is: don’t work wet soil. By wet, I mean saturated, squishy-squashy or squelchy (very technical terms). If you find your soil in any of the aforementioned states, don’t let the robins, who are out hopping about on the garden beds, fool you into thinking you might just …
Spring Garden Prep: when and how to work the soil Read More »
