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How to Identify a Plant
There are several free plant identification apps available for mobile. I use the PlantNet and iNaturalist apps. The first thing I do when I find a plant that I don’t recognize is take…
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Garden Updates (June 10, 2020)
Well, it’s June and things are still a little dicey. Many of the vegetable seedlings I planted died during the freakish cold snaps that occurred last month. Mother’s Day used to be *the*…
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When Veggie Plants Go Wrong
Plant problems got you down? Me too. We’re a few months into the spring planting season here in the Northeast, and I’m just coming to terms with the fact that some of my…
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Subtle Racism in My Local Gardening Group. Not Shocking.
I removed myself from a large local gardening group yesterday. It was a nice group full of seemingly pleasant people and lots of gardening information and pictures, but then as usually happens, someone…
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White Supremacy and Gardening
I’ve been thinking a lot about white supremacy and systemic racism, and all the ways it shows up in American life. Even something as simple as gardening is not untouched by white supremacy.…
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Experiment: using leafy greens as a barrier!
Last year, the milkweed patch on the side of my house came up as usual, the monarch butterflies arrived and laid their eggs, everything was great, and then one day I noticed that…
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Nativars: what are they and should you buy them?
I am a big fan of using native plants in the garden because they are the golden standard for our local pollinators and wildlife, but through the years I’ve learned that it’s not…
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Plant Markers from Recycled Plastic
Last week, I cut up an old plastic garbage can that rolled into my front garden. The can was broken in several places and unusable. I cut it in half with tin snips…
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Gardening When You’re Afraid of Bugs.
I’m afraid of bugs. Yes, it’s true. I love admiring nature in the garden, but I definitely keep my distance from bugs. That advice people give to pick off garden pests and flick…
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Garden Updates (May 7, 2020)
This spring has been unseasonably cold here in the Northeast and there have been maybe 8 or 9 days in the last two months where it was nice enough to do some work…
