I like to mulch with straw. Straw gives the garden a natty look, like the gardener really knows what he’s doing. Ha! And really I should have mulched my garlic beds when I planted them last fall. But I haven’t been particularly thrilled with straw mulch around garlic. It seems like the weeds always manage […]
I spent most of my Sunday taking advantage of spring-like weather to work in the garden–preparing beds, mulching and planting seeds. Apparently I gave the impression that this was so much fun that daughter, home from a long bike ride with Mom, came running over to join me. “Where I can I plant my garden, […]
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Leigh Hauter said he never saw it coming. “I didn’t realize it was getting that cold,” he said of the afternoon the Big Freeze descended. “We went for a walk and the water in the boiler was already frozen.” The wood-fired boiler in question is the one that heats farmer Hauter’s greenhouse and his thousands […]
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