Search Results for 'Gardening'

Why gardening can be the best form of therapy

Coming in from the garden, once again I’m heading for the medicine cabinet. This time it’s for disinfectant to help to work out a rose thorn splinter, yesterday it was thermal rub to ease back pain, and soon it’ll be an [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Ten gardening tips

You should excuse the pun — gardening is rapidly growing into the number-one North American hobby. Maybe we’re trying to save money by growing our own veggies or maybe gardeners are returning to the soil as a means of wo [...]

Posted On : Apr, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Gardening: Allotment tales

Whether we are seeing the effects of climate change or just some seasonal variations, spring is off to a slow start and my allotment still looks quite bare. An unidentified predator has eaten my overwintering broad beans, but the garlic [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Pupils go green for gardening initiative

GREEN-FINGERED youngsters from Scarborough are set to bring a splash of colour to their school after taking part in an environmental scheme. The pupils from Gladstone Road Infants’ School took part in the Big Dig Day project and sh [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Gardening advice on shrubs, ash, newspapers and algae on pot...

Some plants that just won't play ball. Joe Canon has been trying and repeatedly failing to propagate a friend's shrub from cuttings and wonders if there is a knack. The shrub is Bupleurum fruticosum - a shrub he has had no luck i [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2010 | Comments : 0

It's time to start your spring gardening

The cold winter has dragged on and left us gardeners in a tizzy. But early spring is the most exciting time to be a gardener. Here are the best jobs to be getting on with now: 1. Tie your trees. Conifers that have been splayed by the sno [...]

Posted On : Mar, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Natural gardening takes time

The past few weeks I've written about using products in your landscape that sound strange and unusual to some gardeners, especially chemical users. I've talked about products like vinegar, cornmeal and corn gluten meal. Many [...]

Posted On : Mar, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Seed trends - food gardening, pickling

If 2010 gardening trends shape up to be anything like those of 2009, we're in for more vegetable gardens replacing front lawns. According to November's Edible Gardening Trends Research Report sponsored by the Garden Writers Assoc [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Harvest tips on green gardening

Winter gives gardeners a chance to reflect on their gardening goals. With this in mind, the topic chosen for the next meeting of Athens Garden Club, taking place on Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m., at Athens District High School, is "Gre [...]

Posted On : Feb, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Small gardening tips

"I'd love to have a garden, but my yard is too small." So say many people who want to grow their own food but think it's hopeless. Yes, yards these days are tiny and often so shady that only the moss is happy. But if yo [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Everything You Can Do in the Garden Without Actually Gardeni...

This delightful amble through the annals of garden-related literature and letters covers almost all the uses of the English garden from one Elizabethan age to the next. As a place to pace about while dictating (Francis Bacon), or thin [...]

Posted On : Nov, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

Dishing the dirt on kitchen gardening

STRIDING across her sunny allotment in a pair of funky purple wellies, Lindsey O'Donnell looks very much at home. Picking up a gardening fork, she stops to turn some earth; revealing a cluster of golden yellow potatoes, she declares growin [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Don't give up on gardening

I am a certified organic farmer in Carroll County and would like to alert your readers to the main reason for the bad gardening season we just experienced. A number of factors have conspired to create the perfect storm leading to a widespre [...]

Posted On : Oct, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

A passion for gardening

The first thing you notice when talking to Lynette Bowles about her garden is her passion. For the past 19 years Lynette has been nurturing and watching as her 40 acre garden grow, and she dreads the day she can’t be in her garden. [...]