Did you ever give up on a plant and find that, despite being left for dead, it pulled a Lazarus and came back to the land of the living? I had two such pleasant surprises in my garden this week. I managed to resist the Phormium craze for ten solid years of gardening; then I saw...
even if the locals do resent having to hustle so hard for a table. Mike Lata and his executive chef Jason Stanhope buy seafood from local fishermen and surround them with deft Italian, French, and New American flavors. The breadth of influences doesn’t diminish the sense of place engendered...
For everyone who came here to lecture me, that the China Coff was going to depopulate the world, and I was being irresponsible for saying it was like the flu with a lot of stupid number games added; for every one who flounced because I told them the masks were a f*cking stupid idea...
Dish soap and water in a spray bottle can be used in your garden to help prevent pests from having a daily lunch. It seems they don’t like the taste of soap. Inexpensive Trellis If you have always wanted a archway trellis, purchase two 6 feet pieces of re-bar from your locally owned...
Maggie tensed, but when he laid it in her lap and she saw the detailed drawing, she relaxed. The chapel was going to have a gazebo, a trellis awning, and he would build the whole structure around a small pond with a rock waterfall fountain in the center. It looked as if he planned...
THE RULE: Only the small, well-behaved (bush or trellised), or need to harvest often/ “high-maintenance” vegetables will be allowed in themain garden. I have a separate plot in mind for the wild, of questionable value, rambling, or “later season harvest” crazy stuff. Yep. That plo...
Fan training Fan-trained plums are grown close to a wall near a trellis of wires. New shoots are tied to the scaffold branches to encourage a wide V shape. The center of the tree is completely open.[28] This is largely an aesthetic choice, but because the tree is spread horizontally ...