Garden & farm

As an experienced home cook, I can’t help but play favorites when it comes to ingredients, and in my kitchen, scallions are frequently the star of the show. When I learned you can regrow scallions, I had to try it. Scallions, or green…
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Photo by Sam Schipani There are many advantages to starting seeds indoors including the control it gives you over the types and varieties of crops you grow. It also allows you to control the means by which the plants are produced. But…
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When it comes to bringing new life to your garden, print is certainly not dead. In fact, if you are growing seedlings indoors, newspaper pots are an easy, low-cost way to start your plants for the spring gardening season. Newsprint…
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Interested in growing lavender seeds? These tips will help you get started. Guest post by Krystal Slaughter of Three Wondrous Acres Homestead. Photo by Krystal Slaughter When I started a pot of lavender seeds for the first…
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Pink zinnias growing beside tomato and squash plants. | Photo by Bob Schamerhorn Vegetable gardens are often arranged in orderly rows, where staked tomatoes are carefully spaced beside straight lines of cucumber and carrot plants. Each…
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Photo by Gabor Degre Soil is the foundation of your garden. Knowing what makes up your soil -- and how to properly amend it to be the best that it can be -- will help make sure your plants thrive this spring. These easy soil tests will…
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Photo by Sam Schipani Whether you started your seeds indoors or purchase them from a nursery, it's nearing time to plant them in the ground. Here's how to transplant seedlings. According to Kate Garland, horticultural specialist at…
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As an apartment-dweller, I do a fair amount of gardening indoors, and anyone who has read my New Year’s homesteading resolution knows that I am looking to take even more advantage of the lovely south facing windows in my new place.…
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Enjoying a cup of tea? Before you toss those tea leaves or used tea bags, read this. There are many ways they can be reused. BDN File Photo Whether you drink a cup of tea in the morning for a caffeine boost, a cup in the afternoon…
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A soaker hose that trickles water onto the bales of straw. | Photo by Linda Coan O'Kresik There are creative ways to recycle and reuse water, but as with most issues of sustainability, the best option is to simply use less. “There’s…
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A garden slug. | Photo by Jeffrey Hahn Emerging at night to feast on a wide variety of plants, slugs are a slimy pest that can do a lot of damage to a garden. Vegetables, ornamentals, flowers -- nothing is safe from slugs, which chew on…
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Karen Ramsey works with the flowering annuals in one of her greenhouses at Ledgewood Gardens in Orrington, which she opened 31 years ago. | Photo by Linda Coan O'Kresik Especially if you live in a cold area, the natural limitations of…
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