Creating a Perpetual Garden Journal

...perpetual garden journal. To make one, you get a blank journal with enough pages to devote one or two pages for each week of the year. When you want to record something you go to that week and do your drawing. You can, of course, add written notes. As the years roll by you keep adding to the same pages thus creating a week by week visual diary of what’s going on in the plant and fungi world in your garden or in the world around you. I know that dr...

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February 2019 Garden Update

...step in Alcoholics Anonymous we admitted that we are powerless over doing garden design work ourselves and sought out the help of a design professional, Haynes Landscaping, to come up with a plan and do the hardscaping that we never seemed to be able to get to. Last year, while I focused my attention on the inside of the house, a team of very capable workers removed an ugly patio and put in a new one. In the process of that work we discovered a r...

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Win Two Tickets to the 15th Annual Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour

...hat will take place on April 14th and 15th. It’s a self-guided trip through 40 gardens in the region and includes 19 new locations (including our neighbor Lora’s house!). If you’re thinking of including native plants in your garden or pondering a garden re-design, the Theodore Payne Garden Tour is a great way to get ideas. To enter our contest leave a comment on this post naming your favorite native plant. Please make sure to enter your email in t...

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100 Eric Rochow of Garden Fork on Maple Syrup, Welding and Cast Iron

...k. Send him an email at radio@gardenfork.tv. You can also find Eric on the Garden Fork podcast, the Garden Fork Youtube channel, Garden Fork for in Facebook and at GardenFork.tv. If you’d like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to [email protected]. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. The theme music is by Dr. Frankenstein. A downloadable version of this...

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The Wonder of Worms

...beds off to a good start Apply a thin layer of castings to the top of your garden beds just prior to planting, or use castings to back fill seed rows. Use sifted worm castings to provide light cover for small seeds which are just scattered on the surface of a garden bed. You’ll note I’m not giving much guidance in terms of specific quantities. This is partially because I don’t know what the optimum percentage of castings might be required in any g...

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