I plant nasturtiums for their lovely edible leaves.
Gardeners and plant lovers in and near Connecticut might want to put some time aside this weekend to visit Ballek’s Garden Center . On July 17 and 18 this well-established and much loved nursery holds their Huge Garden Tag Sale.
Yesterday was a pretty good day in the garden in spite of record heat – 85 degrees in the shade at 9:30 am and 98 degrees in the same shade at noon.
Yesterday’s post covered late blight on tomatoes, just confirmed in Connecticut. Today brings news of another blight. One that attacks basil … that’s right … basil.
It’s baaack … Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES)recently issued the following: -Alert for Late Blight of Tomato and Potato- Late blight was identified on tomato plants from New Haven County on Thursday, 17 June 2010.
It’s June 1 and with that comes another in my continuing series of gardening oops confessions – I call it GOOPs for short. We all tend to learn from our missteps, and hopefully do the same from those of others. So on the first of each month I fess-up one of my GOOPs hoping you might learn from my faux pas.
May is chive season in Connecticut gardens. The multi-purpose herb blooms in showy globe-shaped flower heads in shades of lavender that gently stand atop long slender leaf shoots. I have chives planted in multiple locations, some in perennial beds and others along a garden fence line
Most in the gardening world are aware of rooftop gardens, but look up in Brooklyn, NY and you might catch a glimpse of a rooftop farm with the catchy country-style name of The Brooklyn Grange.
You know how those moisture-retaining gels swell when placed in water? That’s what I envision happens to brains of new gardeners as they soak up any and all available how-to gardening information – I was a novice gardener once long, long ago and did just that
