THE TALK WAS OF LIVING MULCH, meaning groundcovers, on this week’s Robin Hood Radio podcast, because it’s the perfect time to divide your best ones up (or buy some!) and get some needy areas of the garden covered in weed-thwarting beauty. Speaking of which, I’m going outside to do that right now, but not before Related posts: radio podcast: mulch, mulch and more mulch WOO-HOO! MY...

I SOLEMNLY SWEAR…well, at least until I get to the garden center, I do. No, it won’t be the astro turf that gets me, dear Andre the Doodler, no worry there, but the occasional garden ornament does seem to be calling my name. You? What can’t you resist that you know you ought to, friends? Related Related posts: doodle by andre: shear ingrates AFTER ALL THAT TENDER CLIPPING AND GENTLE...

WHAT FLOWERS DO YOU PLANT in the vegetable garden to encourage good pollination of your food crops? That was the great question raised the other day in the Urgent Garden Question Forum by member NanZ. Want to hear the many answers (or better yet, come on over and give one of your own)? Here’s your Related posts: from the forum: domestic flaps, winter shrubs IPROMISED TO SELECT AND FEATURE THE BEST...

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THIS MONTH’S BOOK GIVEAWAY IS ALL ABOUT MY HEROES. The two books up for grabs are ones I have turned to many times in my decades-long gardening career.  Their authors, mulch-mad, no-work-garden Ruth Stout, and the original “Victory Garden” host Jim Crockett, feel like old friends. Want a chance to win “Gardening Without Work” or Related posts: 2 book-giveaway winners, and more to come I...

IS YOUR GARDEN ON THE LEVEL? THE SUBJECT OF RAISED BEDS keeps coming up in the Urgent Garden Question Forum, and now the topic has turned to the ever-so-tricky aspect of how to build them on uneven ground. Been there, done that. I thought it might best be answered in pictures: I’m a believer that each Related posts: from the forum: ideas for raised beds WHAT CAN A RAISED BED BE BUILT FROM, and what…...

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YES, THERE CAN BE TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. This lesson resounded yesterday when mowing season—a part of gardening that I actually enjoy—began more than two weeks early. I haven’t even finished the needed lawn repairs…and now, this. Vroom! Whether muscling the Noisy Green Machine (above) around a couple of hours twice a week, or Related posts: new spiritual practice MY NEW SPIRITUAL PRACTICE...

WOO-HOO! MY FRIENDS AT WHDD in Sharon, Connecticut, aka Robin Hood Radio, just called to say our A Way to Garden podcasts are not just on iTunes but also on an RSS feed. Easy, peasy, to tune in to. Thank you, my “slightly off” radio partners (no offense intended; it says so in their logo, Related posts: radio podcast: talking tomatoes IT FEELS LIKE TOMATO-HARVEST SEASON here, what with...

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