Eight youngsters at the International Flavors Community Garden plot on West 18th Street in Erie, Pennsylvania, have helped clear away their patch for the winter after a fruitful summer. The children worked on the garden through an Erie School District after-school program called Creating Healthy Active Members Planning to Succeed. Garden supplies were paid for […]
Why is it that most garden books debut in February? I have to wait until then for Willy Galloway’s terrific vegetable book, Grow, Cook, Eat—A Food Lover’s Guide to Vegetable Gardening. Is February the month when publishers assume gardeners’ hearts turn to spring? This gardener’s heart is warmed by new books in deep winter, when […]
White Christmas? We can only hope. Not just because snow makes the holidays so much more picturesque, but because it does wonders for a garden. Last year we had snow cover almost all winter — common up north, but unusual in more southerly parts of the Midwest. Then we had the most spectacular spring. Bulbs […]
