Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

What are those special ingredients that elevate a garden into a stylish and unforgettable space? What’s the best way to unleash your garden personality, and how can you create an outdoor place that’s uniquely your own? Just in time for another… [Continue Reading]

Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

“Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd.” But forget about buying me “some peanuts and Cracker Jack,” as the 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer recommends. I would much rather tour the new 5,000… [Continue Reading]

Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

Creating a Cottage Garden

A proper cottage garden, explains Oxford Dictionary, is defined as "an informal garden stocked typically with colourful flowering plants." And that's the type of garden I've created at my home (Zone 6B/7), as you can see above. From self-seeding poppies… [Continue Reading]

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Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

One of my favorite childhood memories was running around the garden until dinner time, chasing after lightning bugs and catching tadpoles. Sadly, too many kids spend most of their summer time indoors, playing on video games or watching TV. This lack… [Continue Reading]

Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

Seven Ways to Recycle Christmas Trees

December 27, 2010
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A  pine needle-infused bath is just one earth-friendly way to reuse your Christmas tree. About 13 million Christmas trees were cut and sold last year, according to the USDA‘s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Unfortunately, many ended up in the holiday trash. Here are eight better ways to reuse your Christmas tree after the holidays:

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Fun Facts About Christmas

December 23, 2010
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Christmas has a rich history filled with lots of little-known facts. Consider these unusual facts about Christmas … or these other fun facts you might not know. . .  Photo copyright richtpt at Flickr.

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Four Facts About Christmas You Probably Didn’t Know

December 22, 2010
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Christmas may be one of America’s favorite holidays, but it’s rather surprising how little folks know about this day. Here are four strange facts about Christmas you probably didn’t know:

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Patison Golden Marbre Scallop Squash for Summer and Winter

November 22, 2010
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If you’ve ever grown summer squash, you know how prolific these plants can be in ideal growing conditions. Turn around, and six or seven more crookneck squash are ready to pick. Wait too long, and a zucchini will grow the size of a bat. Even your neighbors may start to look weary when you offer yet another bag filled with […]

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Book Review: Edible Landscaping; Podcast Interview; Book Giveaway Contest

November 11, 2010
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Photographs copyright © by Rosalind Creasy These days, we take for granted that folks are becoming “locavores,” and growing their own foods in their backyards, side yards and front yards. Why, even the White House has a kitchen garden, for the first time since World War II. But back in the early 1980s, you were […]

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Upcoming Speaking Appearances

November 2, 2010
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This vintage card of Queen Mary is from riptheskull on Flickr Seasonal Wisdom is traveling coast to coast soon to talk about gardening … although not by ocean liner; just good old fashioned air travel.  Here are some places you’ll find me speaking in upcoming months:

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Halloween Superstitions

October 31, 2010
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“From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties, And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!” –Old Cornish Prayer Since the earliest times, the evening of October 31 has been considered a scary time, when the dead walk among us and the witches are particularly powerful. So, I thought it would be […]

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A Spooky Poem for a Spooky Time of Year

October 27, 2010
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This vintage Halloween card is courtesy of riptheskull on Flickr. Halloween is right around the corner. So, I can’t help but think back on the scariest poem from my childhood. Around this time of year, I simply adored this deliciously creepy delight, which was first published back in 1916 and has been frightening little kids ever since. Be […]

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A Fall Tart for Last of the Tomatoes

October 25, 2010
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The leaves are ablaze with color, and pumpkins sit on nearly every front porch now. Yet, my garden is still producing tomatoes, despite the distinct fall-like weather. In fact, ‘tomaccio’ tomatoes from Hort Couture show no sign of stopping until the first hard frost.

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How to Make Fruit Infused Vodkas

October 7, 2010
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Just as the leaves begin to change each year, my kitchen pantry starts to fill with jars of jewel-colored liquids infusing with fruit. These fruit-infused vodkas sit in my pantry from the end of summer until the winter holidays. Depending on what’s available locally, I’ll infuse everything from elderberries and huckleberries to peaches, plums and pears. Over the years, this ritual has become a nice […]

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