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Dinosaurs and Snake Eggs, and More Most benefits of compost are well-known: it takes out your “garbage,” it fertilizes your plants, it’s teeming with beneficial microorganisms, yadda, yadda, yadda. One too often overlooked plus for compost is the thrill of discovery, discovery of things other than compost in the pile. Discovery might range from the […]
Start With The Carbs A bit of chemistry might be good for your compost. Just a bit. Actually, we mostly need to deal with only two familiar elements of the 100 plus known ones. These two elements are carbon and nitrogen, and they are the ones for which the “bugs” that do the work of […]
COMPOSTING WORKSHOP/WEBINAR Presentation by Lee Reich (MS, PhD, researcher in soil and plants for the USDA and Cornell University, decades-long composter, and farmdener*): Learn the why and the how of making a compost that grows healthy and nutritious plants, everything from designing an enclosure to what to add (and what not to add) to what […]
Presentation by Lee Reich (MS, PhD, researcher in soil and plants for the USDA and Cornell University, decade-long composter, and farmdener*): Learn the why and the how of making a compost that grows healthy and nutritious plants, everything from designing an enclosure to what to add (and what not to add) to what can go […]
One Problem in Cold Weather I don’t let cold weather put the brakes on my composting, at least my role in it. For the bacteria, fungi, and other workers in my compost pile, it’s another story. Come cold temperatures, and their work come screeching to a halt or near halt (which depends on the degree […]
. . . But My Garden is in Order “Some men there are who never shave (if they are so absurd as ever to shave), except when they go abroad, and who do not take care to wear polished boots in the bosoms of their families. I like a man who shaves (next to one […]
Time Change Much of gardening is about timing — getting tomato plants in the ground early enough for a timely harvest, but not so early that transplants are killed by a late frost; checking that there’s enough time following harvest of early corn for a late planting of turnips, etc. So, when I began gardening, […]
A book is a way to cram lifetimes of gardening experiences in a diversity of environments into a few hours. And some gardening books also make for good reading and/or inspiring visuals. In my latest blog post I make some recommendations for some gardening books. They’re also nice for gifts. Read the post here.
Mercury plummeting out in the garden. No problem. I was prepared on all fronts. (At least I think so.) Read about those fronts in my latest blog post, here.
To prune or not to prune (this time of year): that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler to neaten up the garden or to suffer tangles of stems. With apologies to Bill Shakespeare, it depends on lots of things whether or not now is a good time to go out to the garden wielding pruning shears. I go over the why’s and the why not’s of pruning in fall in my latest blog post.
