I still have plenty of pollinator supports / native plants all over the yard, and I will always make sure they are in the majority, but I’ve decided it’s OK to add a handful of plants that are mostly just for me. (Zinnias, 2019) Get ready, get set, and here we go: gardening...
There are cherry kinds such as the sweet, amber-toned ‘Sungold’, plum varieties for sauce (‘Amish Paste’ and ‘Striped Roman’), great, meaty and rumpled beefsteaks for slicing (‘Brandywine’ and ‘Costoluto Fiorentino’), near-white tomatoes (‘Ivory Egg’ and ‘Banana Cream’), ...
Rémi Branger drove me to over half a dozen different vineyards during our morning together. By the end of the tour, I was able to pick out the Pépière plots by sight. All around us, stubby, low-trained vines stretched for miles, the ground between the rows scorched by herbicide. Thou...
the process of making it work is a learning curve. It will take about a year and result in some dead fish, dead plants, and problems you’ve got to solve. I’ve never met anyone for whom it didn’t, though I’ve also never met an aqua...
Figure 2.Profile plots indicate Munsell color, horizon, and depth of horizon for design that the 2011 install was based on and the observed field soil profiles for the upper and lower sections of the rain garden network in 2015. Table 1.Plant type and species, St. Francis rain garden, Cin...