Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 26th, 2007 No Comments »
If you happen to be near City Hall in Peabody, Mass. this week, stop in and pick out some spring bulbs to plant for next year.
Julie Rydzewski in the Department of Community Development and Planning is taking orders for tulips, irises, daffodils, crocuses, allium and hyacinths.
The sale is a fundraiser for Haven from Hunger, a [...]
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Posted in Garden on Sep 25th, 2007 No Comments »
I almost forgot to link to my Yard Dirt column this week, “Nurturing takes on new meaning for mother-to-be.”
It’s about my big news: I’m having my first baby, due Dec. 20. Spare me the “Sharing Seeds” jokes and the gardening metaphors (hee, hee, hee). We’ve already had our fun with this around the office.
If you [...]
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Posted in Lawn on Sep 18th, 2007 No Comments »
If you’re a lawn geek like me, I highly recommend attending at least one program like this one by the Living Lawn Project in Marblehead, Mass.
Even if you don’t plan to go 100 percent organic with your lawn, you learn a lot of basic information about making grass grow. You also get ideas for how [...]
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Posted in Garden on Sep 17th, 2007 No Comments »
I was picking tomatoes and hot peppers yesterday when I noticed a few green beans dangling from their bushes. I had to big harvests of green beans this summer, and I assumed the plants were done.
I decided to pick these few green beans so they wouldn’t go to waste. Once I started pushing leaves aside, [...]
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Posted in Lawn on Sep 13th, 2007 No Comments »
The rain last weekend is perking up my lawn — the crabgrass part, anyway.
This week in my Yard Dirt column, “The bright side of a parched lawn,” I talked about how nearly a month without rain bleached all the color from my yard.
Here’s what it looked like in the heat of the dry spell:
Now the [...]
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Posted in Garden on Sep 11th, 2007 No Comments »
I learned my lesson when it comes to hot peppers — don’t touch!
I’m happy to report that I spent about three hours in the kitchen yesterday working with hot peppers from the garden and had no mishaps whatsoever. The secret? Rubber gloves.
I made hot pepper sauce. Between the two recipes I tried, I had to [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 7th, 2007 No Comments »
This week’s Yard Dirt column, “A lesson learned the hot and spicy way,” is about my adventures with hot peppers from the garden.
Mishaps aside, it’s been a great week for the garden. The tomatoes are so red and they taste so real.
The red peppers are changing color rapidly, too.
What a great way to end [...]
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Posted in Garden on Sep 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Here’s a question from a blog reader named Amy. I’ll try to track down an answer, but in the meantime does anybody have any suggestions?
I have a question about my passion flower. I came back from vacation to find my plant covered in caterpillars. All the leaves now have holes in them and the plant [...]
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Posted in Landscape on Sep 4th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m not the only one who’s been startled by a giant wasp nest this summer. Here’s an e-mail I got from a reader named Scott in Newburyport, Mass.
Hi - I think it’s a good year for these guys. Last weekend I was sitting on a rock down by the ocean near Halibut Point State [...]
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