Category Archives: Time in the garden

Flowers add so much to a vegetable garden.  Besides, beauty, they attract pollinators and other helpful insects.  Diversity triumphs once again.

For years we’ve enjoyed Erika Hunter’s beautiful Cosmos in her bed at the top of the garden.  I have seen so many people posing for photos in front of them.  Now I discover how important that planting is for all the bees, both honey bees and native bees.  Take a look at this article fromContinue reading “Cosmos: A Flower for All Bees”

Here’s a picture I took of one of the raised beds.  When do you think this was taken–April, May, June?  No it was taken yesterday, December 18th.  These vegetables were planted in late Fall and continue to grow, albeit, slowly.  Maybe they will still be there, getting a head start this Spring. I pulled upContinue reading “Wait a minute–I thought it was December?”

  WHF CG-2 This aerial photo of the Wagon Hill Community Garden shows how neat and well managed the garden is.  Even the Heritage Plots, always a bit disheveled, look organized at this distance.  Up close the garden has a strangely tropical look with the kale plants pretending to be palm trees.  There is still foodContinue reading “The Garden at Rest….Almost”

I’ve had question from a  gardener about the use of cover crops instead of leaves or hay.  Yes , you can plant cover crops.  They are an excellent way to replenish the nutrients in the soil. Here is a link to an article about the types of seeds and the way to plant. http://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/garden/cover-crop-basics I amContinue reading “Cover Crops”

It’s a curious thing that just when your garden is producing and doing what you have waited for all season, that a kind of garden lethargy sets in. I don’t know exactly what it is. The Heat? Anticipation is greater than the Reward? The plants look ratty? School is about to start? Just plain tired?Continue reading “Garden Lethargy”

Welcome to the new growing season. By way of inspiration during this snowy time, I thought I’d share with you a sampling of vegetable and garden products I am still enjoying from last year’s harvest. In the basket are russet potatoes, beets, a cabbage, sweet potatoes, and butternut squash. In jars are mixed pickled veggies,Continue reading “Garden Inspiration”

At our Garden Opening this year we encouraged gardeners to plant more flowers.  They did and the gardens are beautiful with blooms.  Here are just a few to enjoy.    

When I see them in my garden, they are weeds to be pulled up immediately, so scorned that they can’t even be added to the compost pile.  Yet , early in the day in the meadow at Wagon Hill, with the dew still glistening on them, those same weeds turn into wildflowers.  Here are someContinue reading “Weeds to Wildflowers”