Walk on the Wild Side
We Can Forage! by Sandy Swegel Sometime every year mid-summer, when the weather is hot and the weeds so darn big, I start to think gardening is just dumb. Nature creates beautiful gardens all on her own without requiring WORK from me. Why do I garden? Why does anyone garden? Can’t we just go back to hunting […]
Mid-Season Garden Report Card
Mid-Season Garden Report Card How is your garden faring? by Sandy Swegel Here’s the report card for my garden. June had record high temperatures and little rainfall. Lots of extra watering helped, but plants don’t grow as well without natural rainfall. Lettuces and Spinach. The heat made them bolt early and they are all bitter or […]
The Midsummer Lull
Preparing for Late Summer Harvest and Beyond by Sandy Swegel I was surfing the garden internet last night at Garden Rant http://gardenrant.com/2012/06/grazing-my-way-through-the-lull.html where blogger Michele Owens is lamenting the midsummer lull in her vegetable garden. It’s so true, late June is a difficult time in both the vegetable and flower garden. There was the wild […]