05.13.2012 Around the Island Garden Column: Growing your own — starting seeds from scratch Before making any decisions as to whether you want to start your own plants, best consider the following first. How much work do you want to do? Because although...
04.24.2012 Around the Island Gardening: Almost everything you wanted to know about feeding… Now that spring cleanup is complete and all the beds are neatly edged and mulched, it’s time to talk about feeding — in fact, it’s actually a little late...
04.17.2012 Around the Island Gardening Column: It's time for spring clean-up Last week we started out on our annual spring clean-up. And we need to keep going. You can’t go shopping for those flats of annuals until the basics have...
04.07.2012 Around the Island Garden Column: Out of those chairs, everybody! It’s spring! Feet off the hearth there! The winter that wasn’t is over and willy-nilly, it’s time to get cracking. Wherever I go, it seems that Island gardeners are talking about...
12.26.2011 Around the Island Gardening: And now, farewell for a while… And so, today, winter truly begins. All around me, I hear groans and complaints about the cold and especially about the early dark in the late afternoons. I’ve been...