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Tag: garden
NATURE’S TURN: Appearance and disappearance of a long-tailed turtle
The wonderful turtle (most likely a female) showed no sign of being aware of my presence, but her legs and feet gave the impression of being frozen in motion.
Gardener’s Checklist: Week of May 23, 2020
Get a few heirloom tomato varieties when shopping for tomato transplants to set out in the vegetable garden this Memorial Day weekend.
Nature’s Turn special photo edition, May 9, 2020
To take the sting away, especially spring snow is known as “poor man’s fertilizer.”
The Self-Taught Gardener: Love in the time of corona
At a time when connections count, our Self-Taught Gardener Lee Buttala advises us to try Nature.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Love and loss in the garden
Fred took me from my buttoned-down days in my Connecticut garden to my life as a single man in the Berkshires and gave me a new way of thinking about gardening.
NATURE’S TURN: Peak summer flowers, fruits and foes
Melons and summer and winter squashes trumpet their yellow- to orange-hued blossoms and set fruit. Their leaves form a floating green carpet.
NATURE’S TURN: August turnover: garden digest
There is so much information to digest and respond to in the expanse of a mid-summer garden.
NATURE’S TURN: Sow crops for late summer, autumn and winter food. A new book inspires
In many area gardens, beds of early beets, carrots, turnips and garlic bulbs will be harvested between now and early August, challenging us to choose short-season and frost-hardy varieties for continuous planting.
BOB GRAY: Legacy
I felt a pleasant balance, an equilibrium of sorts, from hard work done well.
NATURE’S TURN: Wood frogs, peepers, wind woo springtime sower
The warmth that thawed the wood frogs thawed my garden beds and gave rise to tiny leafy tops on half a dozen overwintered parsnips.
NATURE’S TURN: Nature turns on the edge of freezing – a photo essay
Keying out the details of what remains of the plant on the stormy day on which I write of this discovery, observation points to the noveboracensis, a phenomenal New York Ironweed. I am eager for a close look during the 2019 growing season.
Bits & Bytes: ‘A History of Searles Castle’; downtown Pittsfield trick or treat; ‘The Perfect Pitch’; ‘Interreligious Illiteracy’; ‘Stone Pears’ book launch
The fifth annual Western Mass Film and Media Exchange will feature Hollywood screenplay consultant, author and pitch expert Pilar Alessandra.
NATURE’S TURN: Autumn wind and other wild wonders around a garden
Autumn’s full-grown clumps of grass do dance with the wind more fluidly than young, short ones. Weighty, seedy flower heads pull on the season’s longer stems, exaggerating their bowing and bobbing.
NATURE’S TURN: Harvest and reseed. Revel in flowers, relish fruits
Among the late summer bloomers in my landscape are a fragrant heirloom phlox, Japanese anemone, Oswego tea, Russian sage and New York ironweed, all perennials.
BOB GRAY: Midsummer
I remembered reading that, if time ever stops, it’s on a summer afternoon.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Tropical effects
A tropical Thai garden that can survive in Madison, Wisconsin? It is colorful, and otherworldly (at least for us northerners).
NATURE’S TURN: Garden as wellspring of vitality
The unpredictable experiences that occur while gardening can be the most engaging or challenging to our senses, our emotions, intellects and aesthetics.
BOB GRAY: Garden thoughts
A garden, large or small, invites a man to know the earth, the wind, the rain, and himself.
NATURE’S TURN: Summery heat coaxes dormant plants and animals into the light
Touring the garden, perennial herbs and flowers, as well as fall-planted garlic that emerged from snowdrifts scarcely two weeks ago, have been growing quickly since the recent heat wave.
NATURE’S TURN: Gardening in the “Town Among the Clouds”
High-elevation squalls every day and night last week kept us in a holding pattern as soft, white blankets were dropped on the whole, leaving the few planting beds that had warmed unapproachable.
NATURE’S TURN: Grow food, however little; grow flowers, even a few
How we grow our food, where we purchase seed and from whom we purchase food affects our health and the health of the land, water and air.
Welcome to Real Estate Friday!
Intriguing new listings this week, plus advice from Interior Designer Erica Fay on how to cure yourself of overwhelming clutter…or at least, how to try.
BerkShares Business of the Month: Ward’s Nursery and Garden Center
Ward’s isn’t just one of the oldest businesses in Great Barrington; it was also one of the first to accept BerkShares when the currency launched in 2006.
NATURE’S TURN: Twilight in the autumn garden
I’ve felt intimately engaged in carrying to maturity crops that I planted late in the growing season.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Finding tranquility
When I see these flowers, I cannot help but see the world filled with a beauty that warrants our protection.
NATURE’S TURN: Autumn at summer’s edge: plant for winter, prepare for spring
As we remove the dying remains of summer food crops, cool weather vegetables become ever more attractive.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Of cabbages and kales
For years I have been confused by the concept of ornamental cabbages and kales that are planted but not eaten. Now I have arrived at the perfect balance of beauty and edibility.
NATURE’S TURN: Marvels of a polyculture garden
I am dousing all bean and cucumber plants with collected rainwater to encourage production while warm weather prevails.
NATURE’S TURN: August sun lights flowering, fruiting gardens and NOFA’s celebration of growers
Master Ruby Throat then flies to a neighboring structure with more scarlet blossoms, alights and, in a blink of an eye, is whisked away by another hummingbird.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Slow Flowers
Of late, a new movement, Slow Flowers, has been giving local a new dimension. Local flowers have become just as popular as their vegetable counterparts.
NATURE’S TURN: Eat the summer sun’s glitter–to sparkle
Halfway between the summer solstice – the longest day of the year – and the autumnal equinox — the time of equal day and night –this gardener is feeling swept up in the incoming high tide of growth, maturation and ripening.