In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll confess that my three-year-old son lights up when he sees a cheese string or a foil-wrapped Laughing Cow triangle. But I also try to offer him goat-milk cheddar or salty pecorino to nibble on – and often meet with success. We’re probably lucky that he has an adventurous [...]
It was the full-colour catalogue that did me in. Page after page of luscious fruits and vegetables, dripping with dew and ready to be harvested. Like many first-time gardeners, I had visions of a cornucopia of fresh organic produce: heirloom tomatoes nestled against European lettuce varietals, strawberries still warm from the sun. How does your [...]
It was the full-colour catalogue that did me in. Page after page of luscious fruits and vegetables, dripping with dew and ready to be harvested. Like many first-time gardeners, I had visions of a cornucopia of fresh organic produce: heirloom tomatoes nestled against European lettuce varietals, strawberries still warm from the sun. How does your [...]
~li~By Kathy Klein – Victoria County Master GardenerEdited by Charla Borchers Leon Zen gardens incorporate empty space to assist with focusing on the basics of design. The Zen garden at VEG includes line elements with its border and raked gravel. Form, mass and structure are evident with the rocks and small lantern, and color is [...]
ACT Minister for Community Services Joy Burch has called on Canberra’s public housing tenants to show off their green thumbs and enter this year’s annual Housing ACT spring gardening competition. “Canberra is blessed with some wonderful gardens and many of those are to be found at the homes of public housing tenants,” Ms Burch said. [...]
In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll confess that my three-year-old son lights up when he sees a cheese string or a foil-wrapped Laughing Cow triangle. But I also try to offer him goat-milk cheddar or salty pecorino to nibble on – and often meet with success. We’re probably lucky that he has an adventurous [...]
At the time the pool was installed, the area was wrapped within a beautiful black wrought iron fence, which entered and exited into the surrounding landscape by two matching black wrought iron gates. Over the years, within the enclosure, in all soil areas, Louise constructed planting beds, filling the beds with cannas, crape myrtles, clematis, [...]
By John Foster KyForward contributor Let us consider the tomato ” Lycopersicon lycopersicum, golden apple, apple of love, rose of the vegetable garden, cousin of the deadly poisonous nightshade, and the focus of every late August garden and gardener. From its extremely humble beginnings 2,000 years ago in the Andean foothills of South America to [...]
All this summer’s heat and rain has made for some glorious gardens around Avon.You are invited to share photos of your garden at it’s summer finest for a future photo gallery on Avon Patch . Shade garden, flower garden, vegetable garden, it’s all good!Email your photos to Avon Patch editor Melissa Hebert . Don’t forget [...]
Carry an umbrella with you today ” rain, with downpours at times, will fall all day with a potential of 1 to 2 inches drenching Barrington.The Barrington Cemetery Commission meets in the library at 9 .. more …
