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With Labor Day upon us, it’s time to start looking ahead to fall, for better or worse. I say this because some people don’t want summer to end. In their minds, summer is when all the good times happen, and when summer’s over, so are the good times. They think once September hits, winter is…
Maurica Cornett’s father often repeated an important maxim: “You have a garden, you won’t go hungry.” “He was right,” Cornett said. For most of her life, Cornett or a family member has raised a garden large enough to help support their family. On roughly four acres of land in southwestern Letcher County, Cornett has this…
THEY are the bane of every gardeners’ life – so how can you get rid of weeds effectively? One green-fingered pro has had his say, as he demonstrated how he ensures his outside space stays weed free all year long. 4 A gardener said he spots the same mistakes when it comes to soil and…
Stone fruit are fruit with one large pit, or stone, at their center. Traditional stone fruit are apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches and plums; novel hybrids aprium, pluot, and plumcot have been bred with apricot and plum as parents. Every one of these stone fruit are rewarding complements in edible gardens. Clockwise from center bottom: white…
Gardening may generally be easier for people who have a large backyard space because it allows them the flexibility to grow. But apartment dwellers aren’t shut out of the gardening game. In fact, experts say there are a wide variety of options for things that can be grown on a postage-sized patio or a sunny…
Immediately after I completed my horticultural training back in the mid-1970s, I took a job restoring, as best I could, a beautiful old estate on the Palisade cliffs of the Hudson River. Designed by the Olmsted Brothers, the successor to the firm founded by the co-designer of New York’s Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, it…
Gardening with Gutner talks with Allison Vallin Kostovick about her new book and how nature-based living is important to her. NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine — Allison Vallin Kostovick is an avid gardener, creator of Finch and Folly, and now an author. Her new book is titled “The Garden Maker’s Book of Wonder.” “It’s your seasonal guide…
If your store-bought plants die quickly, it’s easy to blame yourself or assume that you’re not cut out to be a gardener. But one Instagram user revealed that this might be due to two simple issues that have nothing to do with you — a lack of food and space to grow. They suggested two…
