“Affordable housing and transportation are critical to economic development, but child care is an equally critical component of our economy," Selectboard member Ben Elliott said during the board's May 19 meeting.
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.
Once root-bound specimens are out of their pots or dug from the garden, divide them by cutting with a knife, hatchet or saw, whatever is most appropriate for the particular situation and most safely done.
The summer of 2016 was the first time in my 25 years of making my home on the Taconic Plateau that I witnessed dry streambeds, shrunken ponds and even the rich top layer of my deep garden beds become dust.
When I posited that harvesting rainwater and conserving water use is in order, Brian Fuchs of the National Drought Mitigation Center countered, “Conservation should be practiced all the time. We don’t know when a drought might be on the horizon.”
There’s still time to plant more radishes and broadcast seeds of lettuce, spinach and Asian greens in beds where alliums, spring beets and potatoes grew.
