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Beware, impatient gardeners. If you garden like Thomas Jefferson, you just might lose the farm! Here's better advice from our Self-Taught Gardener.

Here is a collection of personal introductions to many of my wild friends.

While preparing for spring, I am still pulling onions, garlic, turnips, beets and carrots from cold storage.

There is so much information to digest and respond to in the expanse of a mid-summer garden.

From the rousing, quirky sounds and silhouetted flight of woodcocks in the late winter dusk to the melodious phrases and amusing spectacle of speed-walking robins on sunny, just-raked garden beds, the activities of seasonal arrivals have tuned our response to the swelling spring.

Whether at a farm stand or market, it is a small crime of property damage to tear open the tip of an ear of corn.

There’s nothing charming about Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum), an invasive weed that is spreading along Berkshire roadsides.

With gardening season in full swing, I am also energized to redouble my efforts to interplant as many row-seeded crops as possible.