Edel: Tips for growing great tomatoes (The Record)Tomatoes have had a tough time of it lately, what with all the reports of a suspected salmonella outbreak.
The 50 Best Garden Accessories - Tables and Chairs (Independent)This ismy favourite piece of garden furniture this year. Made from polished concrete, it has a trough along the back and two smaller window boxes in place of the arms. I like the wittiness of it.
The Southern Gardener: Enjoy lazy summer evenings (Memphis Commercial Appeal)While walking the dogs the other night in the moonlight on a normally dark street, I was reminded anew how people used to enjoy bright evenings in their gardens.
A garden for a mother now a treasured oasis (The Oklahoman)For his 16th birthday in 1969, William Howell asked for a special willow oak tree to plant in his front yard. His mother, Lucy, granted his youthful wish. Lucy is gone now, but the mature tree stands like a sentinel in the front yard of this small, quiet neighborhood east of May Avenue on Cambridge Court. The home is named "Half Moon Court,? honoring Lucy's maiden name, Moon. Howell grew up ...
Secrets Tour showcases small retailers (Lancaster Online)Melissa Nordhoff knows a little secret. Actually, she knows more than two dozen of them. Nordhoff is organizing a new event, the
Roadside farm markets listed (Lexington Herald-Leader) The Kentucky Farm Bureau Directory of Kentucky Certified Roadside Farm Markets, 2008 issue, complete with a map describing locations, products, produce and services throughout Kentucky, is now available. The three Madison County roadside farm markets listed are: . The Acres of Land Winery, 2285 Barnes Mill Road, Richmond. Open year-round, the vineyard offers seasonal vegetables, a ...
Garden: Built of blood, sweat and tears (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)For Sheila Harmon, gardening is a basic element of living. This is the result of growing up in England, where gardening is a popular pastime, and where her father set a fine example with the family garden. Harmon left England in the 1950s to marry James Harmon in Kentucky. The couple eventually settled in Orcutt, where James worked at Vandenberg Air Force Base as a project manager. Now widowed, ...
Fountains Make a Big Splash in Your Garden (Carteret County News-Times)(ARA) - Ponce de Leon spent his life searching for the "fountain of youth." Fortunately for us, we only have to search a local garden store to find that special fountain which will transform our own backyard into a private oasis.
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