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Out standing in her field
That's where you'll be likely to find me this summer. Unfortunately, that means that I need to step away from the blog for a while. Here are a couple of other places to look for good gardening...
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Some (don't) like it hot
Up here in the North Country, the hard-to-grow warm season crops get all the oohs and aahs. Can you grow okra? Or artichokes? (If you can, tell me how you do it.) Sweet potatoes are a recent triumph...
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All together, now
So, that bowlful of paperwhites blooming on your table in January has inspired you to take up rake and shovel and plant your first garden this spring. But, you don't have a rake, or a shovel, or a...
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Reports from the field
It's your turn. We're cresting another hill on the roller coaster that is this spring's weather, and I know that many of you are out in the garden checking on emerging perennial shoots, or building new...
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Who ya gonna call?
When Martha Foley lets us listen in on her Gardening Conversations with horticulturalist Amy Ivy every Monday, some of you might be thinking, "Cornell Cooperative Extension? I thought extension agents...
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Not too late to start
This spring!! 80° F in Canton on March 21st; 20° on March 27th. It makes predicting the last sub-freezing temperatures of the season more difficult than usual. And missing your guess by a day or two is...
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Rise up
I have a confession to make. After extolling the virtues of no-till gardening in my last post, I found myself on Tuesday facing an expanse of garden beds almost indistinguishable from the weeds...
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The tilling of Tull
Before you pull out the ol' rototiller this spring, pause a moment to reflect on Jethro Tull. No, not that one. This one . Tull revolutionized British agriculture in the 18th century with his...
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George Brewton's Tahitian Sweet Potato Squash (seeds, part II)
Open Pollinated or Hybrid? This... When Columbus sailed back to Spain with news of a New World, his ships' holds may have carried seeds from Cucurbita pepo. This group, which today includes zucchini,...
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Roundup Ready or not (seeds, part I)
Open-pollinated or hybrid? Conventional or organic? Heirloom or AAS winner? GMO or non-GMO? If you are a new gardener, the pretty pictures in the seed catalogs may influence your purchase more than...
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Crop rotation is a little like contradancing. You start at one end of the hall (or field) with a group of acquaintances, and end up at the other side surrounded by a completely different set of...
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Paper gardens
What is it about gardening – besides the aching back and dirty fingernails – that inspires romantic hyperbole? Yeats pined for Lake Innisfree where " peace comes dropping slow." When Thoreau needed...
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Weekend in Saratoga
The chatting never stops. For people who have chosen to spend their day, on the whole, working by themselves or with a few others the farmers at the NOFA-NY (Northeast Organic Farming Association of...
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Everything you always wanted to know about carrots
Q: Where can I find information on the most popular carrot-playing musicians available for hire? Oh, and I was quite embarrassed last Carrot Sunday to not remember the correct rhyme to recite while...
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Too high a price
We love tomatoes. In 2009, an average of 20 pounds of fresh supermarket tomatoes was consumed by every man, woman, and child in the US. The plants are grown by the thousands (millions?) in backyards...
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The dormant season
January wanes, yet we are only a third of the way through winter. The coldest and snowiest periods of the season still lie ahead. The ten-hours-of-daylight milestone that farmers Eliot Coleman and...
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Closing out the season
Shoving garlic bulbs into the earth is usually the last planting chore of the season, and it coincides with my last blog post of the season. Thanks for reading, and thanks for the thoughts and tips you...
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When the instructors asked "How many here have compost piles?" many of the Master Gardener Volunteers halfheartedly raised their hands. I soon realized that most, like me, had heaps of garden debris...
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Tomatoes 3 ways
Now, in these warm fall days, the true nature of tomato plants is revealed. They are perennial plants in their native Peru and many varieties will continue to grow and produce fruit as long as the...
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To garden! An Oak Park, Michigan family decides to landscape their front yard with vegetables in raised beds after a sewer line renovation; a math teacher in Memphis provides a place for a few students...
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