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Gardener’s Checklist: Week of June 11, 2020
Why is your neighbor running down the road like a wild banshee? Maybe he took Ron’s advice about ant hills.
The Self-Taught Gardener: The procrastinating vegetable gardener
Beware, impatient gardeners. If you garden like Thomas Jefferson, you just might lose the farm! Here’s better advice from our Self-Taught Gardener.
NATURE’S TURN: Harvest, feast and prepare for storage, renewal
Harvesting, preparing and preserving the season’s crops, combined with ongoing care of the plants and soil, has reached a climax of activity.
SHRINK RAP: Kale nation
Writer and psychologist Susan Winston, no fan of kale, wonders where it came from and how it has managed to have taken control over our culinary adventures.
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.
Wintertime produce: Mill River Farm extends the growing season with right combination of conditions, plants
Feb. 2 marked the return to 10 hours of daylight; as a result, Johnson’s seed house is currently brimming with all varieties of microgreens that are lush, healthy and being consumed at a rapid clip at the myriad local restaurants for which she is the supplier.
NATURE’S TURN: A full plate
Onions and potatoes, tomatoes and basil, cucumbers and kale, snap beans and zucchini fill dinner plates and overflow salad plates as the growing season peaks.
NATURE’S TURN: Spring in the winter air. Trees, gardeners wake from dormancy
The seasons of more active engagement with the land are about to begin.
NATURE’S TURN: Winter muse, then arctic freeze, winds transform the landscape
Plants painted with prickly frost crystals sparkled, lit by morning’s first sunbeams. Every sparkle flashed rainbow colors. Each uniquely rimed leaf invited a close-up look.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Life is sweet (especially once temperatures cool down)
Many vegetables become sweeter with cooler temperatures. So do some gardeners, like our author, in hopes that someone will keep him warm during the winter.
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.
NATURE’S TURN: Bean plants in the lettuce bed, how to raise mosquitoes
The lush bed of colorful lettuces that now invites continuous harvests is destined to peak, then decline as midsummer approaches.
NATURE’S TURN: Seed and feed rich colors, flavors for the New Year
Beginning with an aspect of the backstory of seed development seems fitting as the old year turns to the new and all of us have already or will soon choose seeds for our gardens and farms.
NATURE’S TURN: Intoxicating tree colors surround the autumn garden
Stored in a cool, dark location, green tomatoes ripen slowly and develop good flavor. Check often. I’ve enjoyed juicy Brandywines into early December.
NATURE’S TURN: Autumn – savor and seed the turn-of-the-season garden
We are fundamentally light farmers. Harvest as much sunlight energy as possible by having as much green leaf as possible — therefore as much of the year as possible.
NATURE’S TURN: Vegetable varieties for the 21st century garden, Part 1
There are vast nutritional differences among the varieties of a given fruit or vegetable. …..To this day, the nutritional content of our man-made varieties has been an afterthought.
— Jo Robinson, Eating on the Wild Side
EAT WELL/ LIVE WELL: It’s spring. Detoxify yourself
When you are feeling congested, fatigued, burdened, you may want to look at cleaning up the toxic load on your system.
NATURE’S TURN: Seeds with a mission; world renowned garden designers
The Seed Saver’s Exchange offers many ways of procuring heirloom flower and vegetable seeds and books to learn about seed saving, starting plants ahead of the growing season and gardening.
NATURE’S TURN: What does a gardener do in December?
Letting go of the garden – and the garden letting go of me – has seemed imminent for weeks!
NATURE’S TURN: Marcescent trees, frost-hardy vegetables
Usually, leeks and the cabbage family survive uncovered until the end of November and beyond. Parsnips left in the ground through winter are prized as a spring treat after the ground thaws.
EAT WELL / LIVE WELL: Food is your best medicine
Seventy percent of your immune system resides in your gut. So what we eat can have a major impact on how our immune system functions
NATURE’S TURN: Tender harvests, hardy plantings – autumn’s in the leaves
Good garden hygiene in the fall is preparation for a healthy start in the spring. Clear dead, dying and weed plants before cold weather discourages the effort.
NATURE’S TURN: Spring planting, summery weather
May 11 through 24, 2015 Mt. Washington — With the sudden onset of unseasonably hot weather, the vegetable gardener is in a tailspin. We’ve gotten caught without a stretch of early spring conditions, having moved abruptly from winter deep freeze to summery heat, along with drought. I’ve decided to push on with the cool season
NATURE’S TURN: Where wild nature meets the garden
The garden has thrown off its snow blanket and frost-hardy vegetables are growing despite occasional nighttime temperatures in the 20’s when the top layer of earth freezes solid.
NATURE’S TURN: Winter garden
In the first of her biweekly columns about growing and gardening in the Berkshires, Judy Isacoff writes: “Stars, the sunlit moon and planets circle the expanse of frozen, fertile ground during these long nights. There’s the sense of a night shift at work underground.”
Eat well, live well: The late summer harvest
Kale is now recognized as providing comprehensive support for the body’s detoxification system as do the other members of the brassica family –- broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprout.