Hey, check out this workshop on organic lawn and gardens.
How to Phase out Chemicals and Phase in Organics
A free workshop on using organic alternatives to fertilizers and pesticides on your lawn and garden is being sponsored by the Greenscapes North Shore Coalition on Tuesday, June 5 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Community House [...]
Archive for May, 2007
If you read my Yard Dirt column today, you know that I’ve been battling rabbits in my garden.
These are my little shell pea plants on May 11:
Here are the pea plants on May 22. Notice how some have been chewed down to just the stem:
Within a couple of days of that photo, the peas were [...]
Here’s an interesting comment posted last week:
In the next few weeks Crabgrass will start to grow everywhere. I would like to encourage people to use different products rather than “Roundup”. A better approach is the use of vinegar and citric acid sold under the name “Burn-out”. It is safer for pets, people and the environment [...]
A 50-year-old roofer named Gordon from Merrimac called this week to tell me about his single most important gardening technique.
You get a 55-gallon barrel and fill it with water, he said. Then you get some cow manure (he gets it from a nearby farm) and put it in a burlap bag. Seal the bag with [...]
My buddy George in Haverhill called yesterday to remind me of one of his all-time favorite lawn tips: leaving the grass clippings on the lawn.
This is a cornerstone of organic lawn management, of course, but George isn’t into organic lawn care.
In fact, George has a chemical lawn service that he loves, and he takes great [...]
After all that rain last weekend, my lawn was super long! I took advantage of the opportunity to set my mower blade higher.
I had been cutting at 2-3/4 inches, but this week I went up to 3-1/2 inches.
Even at 2-3/4 inches it was so deep that you could lose a bocce ball in it. I [...]
I got this question from a Salem News reader named Natalie:
Hi Julie,
Just read your article and find very interesting. I, too, try to have a lovely yard and garden, so help is needed. I have mostly shade in my back and front yards and would like to know what would be the best flowers (annual [...]
Check your local forecast. I just talked to Barbara Barger, the gardening columnist for our newspapers, and she said a frost is predicted tonight near her home in Beverly and possibly in other places North of Boston.
If you have seedlings outdoors, bring them into the garage tonight. Put them out again as soon as it [...]
Here’s a quick tip from a reader, Joseph Quattrochi, who works at Ceramaloy Sharpening in Salem, Mass. He called a couple of weeks ago because he felt bad for me after I wrote a column about my frustration with getting my lawnmower blade sharpened.
Before you tip your lawnmower to replace the blade, he said, make [...]
This is a conversation thread that began under my first post, and I thought I would pull it out to see if anybody else wants to share an opinion.
A reader named JoAnn wrote:
I heartily agree about going organic! I have a lawn question. We put in 4 inches of good topsoil last year and put [...]
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