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]

Creating a Cottage Garden Creating a Cottage Garden

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

Why Hybrids?

March 10, 2009

Trying to decide between growing heirlooms or hybrids? Well, there are several reasons to consider hybrid seeds: A hybrid is produced by breeding at least two different plant varieties to create a “new and improved” version. A hybrid may offer better yields, improved disease resistance, smaller sizes, etc… than an heirloom. A hybrid can be […]

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Why Heirloom Seeds?

March 10, 2009

Excellent flavor. Colorful histories. Funny names. Unusual varieties. Heirloom seeds offer these benefits and more. Here are just a few reasons why you should consider heirloom seeds: Heirlooms are open-pollinated plants with seeds that reproduce true to type year after year – unlike hybrids. Heirloom seeds can be saved for the next growing season – […]

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A Few Seeds I’m Sowing

March 2, 2009

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap,but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson From purple beans to candy-striped beets to carrots of all colors, I’ve selected a number of unusual vegetables for my garden this season. Many are heirlooms known for their exquisite taste and striking appearance. Here are just a […]

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A Bit of Valentine Folklore

February 12, 2009

“Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say Birds choose their mates, and couple too, today.” Robert Herrick, 1648 As another Valentine’s Day approaches, how much do you know about this day of love? Personally, I didn’t know much until I pulled out my old folklore books. So, if you’ve ever wondered how the […]

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Welcome!

February 1, 2009

“As the day lengthens the cold strengthens.” Old Proverb It seems only appropriate to begin this four-season gardening blog in February. This month is often the year’s coldest, depending on your location, but the days are growing longer. That’s why many cultures in the Northern Hemisphere celebrated the increasing light and the emergence of spring […]

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February Begins

February 1, 2009

Welcome February! Spring is coming, and I can’t help craving flowers like the lovely ones photographed above by Isabel Gomes. Did You Know? February gets its name from the Latin Februarius, which is derived from februa or “means of cleansing.” This was probably due to the many purification rituals that occured this month in earlier times.

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