Happy Memorial Day
Posted in General on Monday, May 26, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I hope everyone is enjoying nature on this beautiful three day weekend!
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Sorry for the blog inactivity
Posted in General on Monday, May 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Sorry about being inactive in responding to comments and posting for the last couple of weeks….I had to make a last minute trip to visit family and haven’t had regular Internet access. I’ll be back in Rhode Island in the next couple of days and will make a longer post then.
May is not New England’s [...]
Native & invasive ornamental grasses
Posted in General, Native & Invasive Plants on Sunday, April 20, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Landscaping and gardening with ornamental grasses is hot. Ornamental grasses provide home gardens with nesting sites, food, and cover for birds and other animals; pleasing and unusual texture and dimensionality; and garden interest in all four seasons. Some varieties can be used to plant lawns that require less mowing and water.
Finally, spring
Posted in General on Thursday, March 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Happy spring!
I’m in North Carolina visiting family, so please excuse these short posts. More regular blogging by the end of March.
Weekend photoblogging: big snowstorm!
Posted in General on Friday, February 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
It’s really coming down outside.
Merry holidays!
Posted in General, Way Off Topic on Monday, December 24, 2007 | 4 Comments »
A “garden version” of The Night Before Christmas:
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the yard,
Not a vegetable was growing, not even Swiss chard.
The hoses were stored in the cellar with care
And I, rest assured, knew they wouldn’t freeze there.
The perennials were mulched, all snug in their beds
While visions of springtime danced in their [...]
Organic produce must-haves
Posted in General on Friday, September 21, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I interrupt my fall field trip adventures to direct your attention to a really helpful article article in the latest Delicious Living magazine that discusses what products or product ingredients that you should buy organically if all possible. The article goes beyond the usual health reasons and explores the environmental reasons for buying organic as [...]
New Orleans
Posted in Field Trips, General on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Hi everyone, I had a last minute business trip to New Orleans for a client, but only for a couple of days. This place is wacky in so many ways, good and bad. The people seem great all around though. I’ll be back in Rhode Island tonight, where the high temperature today is supposed to [...]
Vernal equinox: new beginnings
Posted in Garden Reading, General on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading.
– Henry Thoreau, “Natural History of Massachusetts”
Hello readers and blog friends. Happy first day of spring….a welcome day for all, especially in the colder parts of the world. I took a winter break from blogging to enjoy a cheerful winter of reading “books of natural history” [...]
Defining organic gardening
Posted in General on Saturday, December 2, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Recently I’ve been trying to understand what it really means to garden organically. When consumers buy organic produce, we know what that means (at least in theory). For example, since the USDA began certifying organic food in 2002, we can safely assume (again, in theory) that food marked as organic has been produced without the [...]
Last blooms til April
Posted in General on Monday, October 30, 2006 | 3 Comments »
This is the only plant with live flowers left in my yard. Does anyone know exactly what it is? It’s a native aster of some sort–maybe arrow leaf aster (Aster sagittifolius)? Or is it blue wood aster (Aster cordifolius)? They all look alike to me in the photos.
The new Earth Friendly Gardening
Posted in General on Thursday, June 22, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Now here's a gutsy picture to put on the Internet. If it were a little bigger you could see the dumb expression on my face.
As for Earth Friendly Gardening….OK, The blog header is new. Thank you WordPress for finally allowing me to customize my header with my own photo!
But Earth Friendly Gardening is new [...]
Self portrait June 17, 2006
Posted in General on Saturday, June 17, 2006 | No Comments »
What a compliment!
Posted in Garden Reading, General on Sunday, June 4, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Thanks to Geraldine at Veggies, Yarns & Tales who today featured Earth Friendly Gardening as her Blog of the Week. Geraldine lives on the Canadian Prairies and is a vegetarian cook extraordinaire with a published cookbook and a blog featuring cooking, knitting, poetry and other ramblings, and her cat Mitzi. And she's a regular stop [...]
Benefits of gardening
Posted in General, News on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 | 2 Comments »
A story from earlier this month that I came across on HealthDay confirms that gardening is good for the body and spirit:
There are oodles of benefits — both physical and mental — that come from the range of activities associated with gardening.
See? Oodles. That's real science.
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