Getting to Know Chicory
Chicory is an herbaceous perennial with light blue flowers on stems that can reach over three feet tall. Each flower opens only once, usually just for that morning. Each day, new flowers…
College Street Yards Gone Wild
by Jake Brown Passersby may have noticed some work going on in two front yards on the one-way section of College Street up by…
FEAST Farm Preparing to Flourish: Volunteers Welcome at the Home Farm Garden Location
Readying the long rows of the FEAST Farm garden for planting first required hand weeding of an unidentified plant that had sprung up atop…
Gov. Scott Opens Maple Season at East Montpelier Farm
Vermont Governor Phil Scott joined the owners of Templeton Farm in East Montpelier today for the annual first tree-tapping, which is recognized as the…
Pesticides a Top Threat to Vermont’s Bees
North America is home to 4,000 bee species, but only four species of bee are cultivated worldwide for their honey, and among those four,…
Vermont Maple Adds Value….and Hibiscus
by Mike Dunphy One thing I’ve always adored about Vermont is how little things change. Having grown up here, but lived much of my…
HANDS-ON GARDENER: Think Long and Hard Before You Plant That Tree
by Miriam Hansen Ah, the glories of mud season. As temperatures roller coaster up and down, the snow drops are blooming, onions, leeks, shallots,…
HANDS-ON GARDENER: Saving Seeds and Cutting Back
by Miriam Hansen October is the month for collecting and saving flower seeds. This long, warm fall, despite being slightly nipped by frost, the…
HANDS-ON GARDENER: Divide, Move & Conquer!
by Miriam Hansen September is the time to divide and move those perennials that bloom in spring and summer. Rather than devote the whole…
HANDS-ON GARDENER: Winding Down and Gearing Up
by Miriam Hansen As the growing season winds down, I find myself thinking about next year, what I want to divide and what I…
HANDS-ON GARDENER: Let’s Talk About Weeds: A Tale of Comeuppance!
by Miriam Hansen For most of the 40 years we’ve been gardening, weeding has not been a big onerous issue. When friends have bemoaned…
Hands-on Gardener: Keep those flowers coming!
by Miriam Hansen Here we are trundling toward mid-June and we came within two degrees of a killing frost last week! Still, with all…
HANDS-ON GARDENER: Rules to Plan By
by Miriam Hansen This is one of those years when spring has really passed in the blink of an eye. My prediction that…
HANDS-ON GARDENER: Time to Start the Seedlings…
by Miriam Hansen After a month in the Southwest, it has only taken a day or so for us to get mighty tired of…
HANDS ON GARDENER: Challenges…
by Miriam Hansen I confess. I ordered lisianthus seed — the flowering biennial that takes five to six months from germination to flower, requires temperatures…
HANDS-ON GARDENER: Timing
by Miriam Hansen Well we’ve rung in the New Year and I couldn’t resist running a photo of the beautiful lettuce, spinach and cruciferous…
Hands-On Gardener: For the Love of Brussels Sprouts
by Miriam Hansen Early November and we’ve had our first really hard frost, the perfect time to finish harvesting the Brussels sprouts and…
Putting Perennial Gardens to Bed
by Miriam Hansen Miriam’s been a bit under the weather of late, and couldn’t summon the reserves to write a column for this issue.…
Hands on Gardener: Keeping Up with Putting Up 9.11.14
by Miriam Hansen The tomatoes have ripened, the late blight has arrived, and we’ve harvested all the fruit and are getting ready to bag…
Be Careful What You Wish For! 8.7.14
By Miriam Hansen. Between the cucumbers, summer squash, peas, blueberries, raspberries, cherry tomatoes and basil, we’re flattened! My daughter and her friend held down…
Hands On Gardener: Feed Me and I’ll Feed You!
by Miriam Hansen. So far this has been a banner gardening year. We’ve had the perfect amount of rain and sun, and plenty of…