Last year I purchased a small fig tree in a 2-gallon container near the end of the growing season. Since fig trees are not hardy in my zone 5 garden, I kept the fig over the winter in my unheated garage. In early spring, I repotted the fig into a larger and more decorative container [...]

                                1.  The tomatoes are coming along . . . This year, I decided to use a more aggressive training technique for my tomato plants. Instead of just letting them scramble up willy-nilly through a tall tomato cage, I’ve been [...]

Strawberry shortcake – the dessert I dream about nine months of the year, and consume as often as possible the other three! This is a photo of the shortcake I enjoyed last night, using berries from our new strawberry patch. We started the rather large strawberry garden last summer. It is an oval shape, about [...]

I gave a presentation at the Civic Garden Center in Cincinnati the other night on Edible Landscaping. Edible landscaping is the use of food-producing plants in the landscape. Many trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants with edible parts can serve the same function as ornamentals, and look just as good. Edibles can be incorporated into any garden [...]

Last year at this time, my daughter decided that she had outgrown her swing set. We listed the swing set on Craig’s list, and a young family came out, dismantled the set and took it away. I was ecstatic – a new place to plant stuff! I decided to use the space to grow things [...]

I’m delighted that we’ve had a long, soaking rain the past few days – we really needed it! Photo of Bristol Black Raspberries from Stark Bros. Nursery As luck would have it, some bare-root ‘Bristol’ black raspberry bushes that I ordered (from Stark Bro’s Nursery, www.starkbros.com) arrived and needed to be planted right away. I [...]