I was at the Philadelphia Flower Show during one of the many snow storms that hit the northeast this year and I was struck by the number of flowers in bloom. There were thousands and thousands of perfect flowers decorating every aspect of the event. These flowers had been forced to grow out of season […]
Roger Marshall’s journey Gardening came to me naturally, while growing up in England in the 1950s. At that time, with war time shortages still distressing the UK economy, commercial fertilizers were hard to come by, so we made compost and used natural organic materials to fertilize our gardens, practices that I continue using today. English […]
For a number of years, I’ve grown lettuce in plastic gutters in my greenhouse. The installation is simple: Each ten-foot-long gutter hangs from brackets on a greenhouse wall, with one end four inches lower than the other. I fill the gutters with clay pellets to give the plant roots something to grip. A fish-tank pump […]
