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Welcome temperamental March in the garden
Rogue Valley gardeners, let’s greet “Dear March” by planting a berry bush and some seeds for cool-season crops. Indoors, it’s time to sow eggplant, bok choy, kale, celery, and mustards in peat pots, as...
View ArticleThinking of growing in a community garden?
“One of the wonderful things about growing plants in a community garden is that so many things are possible,” said Mary Foster, director of the Community Garden Network in the Rogue Valley. Foster...
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Are Tomatoes Easy to Grow in the Rogue Valley?
Homegrown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes, Wha’d life be without homegrown tomatoes? Only two things money can’t buy, That’s true love and homegrown tomatoes. Tomato deformity or a ruffled cultivar?...
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Take a break to assess garden successes and failures
“Success is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a Nectar Requires the sorest need.” – Emily Dickinson, “Success,” 1864 My elderberry bushes have grown and produced prolifically!...
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Rejuvenate with a forest bath
“Shinrin-yoku is lke a bridge. By opening our senses, it bridges the gap between us and the natural world. And when we are in harmony with the natural world we can begin to heal.” – Dr. Qing Li,...
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Late-summer-to-fall bloomers
“Every flower blooms at its own pace.” – Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem, 2011 In Sunday’s column (September 1, 2019), I shared suggestions from retired...
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Help for dead dirt
“Soil remediation is a process of developing the life of the soil by introducing beneficial bacteria and fungus in their living state.” – Frank Holzman, Radical Regenerative Gardening and Farming,...
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Mimic Nature’s Perfection with Hügelkultur
This woodland area has fallen conifers that have been nourishing the soil for decades. We are filling in the eroded spots with dead trees we are cutting down, and then we’ll build low mounds with...
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Going on a fungi find
AN ODE TO THE MUSHROOM Molecules flow through space ebbing and eddying a single cell forms into life touching another, making love cellular strings lace outwards forking, branching, frolicking mosaics...
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Harden off your starts before planting outdoors
Seedlings need time to adjust from indoor to outdoor growing conditions As I wrote in Sunday’s column, gardening is an exercise in delayed gratification. We experience the joy of watching plants grow,...
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