August is a time of abundance for many gardeners, especially ones who planted zucchini.
Mid-August: what looks good now
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August is a time of abundance for many gardeners, especially ones who planted zucchini.
It’s too hot outside to do anything but enjoy what’s working and plan for fall.
Sometimes it takes you away from the garden
Why rain is so much better for the garden than watering, peonies, and thank you, Kansas City Area Gardening Facebook Group
Something bad-ish happened in the garden this week.
Can you believe that just one week ago we were scurrying to save our plants from the freeze? Now that freeze feels like a lot of hype. We didn’t lose anything in our garden, except we probably won’t have blueberries, which the birds eat anyway. I suspect the fear of returning to dull, brown colorlessness […]
The forecast is for snow. What will this mean for our spring? Should I turn my yard into a tent city? Is trying to save things worth the trouble?
January is a quiet month for gardeners.Most of its pleasure comes from thinking about gardening, not from gardening itself. But things are happening: the world is gathering force for great change.
I started out years ago wanting to recreate The High Line in our backyard. Impossible, I know. Eventually my research led me to Roy Diblik’s The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden: “a simplified approach to making a design magazine-worthy garden achievable at home.”
Instead of posting regularly as I planned, I now seem to be posting when inspiration strikes—as it did last week when I read a discussion of this article from last Sunday’s Kansas City Star: I’ve lived near this house for years and have followed this story with interest. On Facebook someone commented that they liked […]