Garden Ideas for Your Yard
As children, we learn to think of insects as bad guys, home invaders that we must squash on sight. We carry this perception into the garden and assume that all bugs are bad guys that should be blasted with chemicals on sight. While some garden insects are definitely...
Garden Ideas for Your Yard, Seasonal Appreciation
There’s a German legend about a beautiful and graceful young woman named Barbara, whose father locked her in a tower to keep the young men at bay. Fortunately, fathers have evolved since then! While locked away, Barbara pined for the warmth of the sun, the song of...
Garden Ideas for Your Yard
Long ago, February 1 was considered the first day of spring in the gardener’s year. It seems appropriate then that shortly after February 1, we start getting seed catalogs in the mail and seeing a bumper crop of special gardening publications at the checkout...
Garden Ideas for Your Yard
Each year there are countless new varieties of improved ornamentals, but it’s often the old reliables that can best withstand flood and drought and return to grace another season. While recently traveling the coastal back roads of southern New Jersey, you may have...
Garden Ideas for Your Yard
Those who garden in the Pine Barrens of South Jersey are well acquainted with the region’s special challenges. We work to improve the structure of our sandy soil, neutralize its perpetually low pH, and supplement its lack of nutrients. We accept that some areas would...
