Does Your Garden Breed Trouble?

Trouble Garden Breed

Everyone likes a garden that is clean and neat. Weeding, thinning, and cultivating are necessary tasks for every gardener who takes pride in keeping their garden in proper order.  However,

Can Herbs Make Cool Bouquets?

Herbs Bouquet

Bouquets are lovely in their way as those of flowers may be made from the fragrant, rich range of green-toned foliage found in the herb garden. Moreover, the scent of

Fall Strawberries: A Surprise Harvest?

Setting Strawberries

I became convinced of the value of planting strawberries in the fall of the mid-1990s. I have been systematically experimenting with strawberries since 1993 to grow the greatest yield from

Have You Ever Ate The Edible Chayote?

Edible Chayote

Now and then, something pops up in horticultural magazines about chayote, Sechium edule.  Last winter, this relative of the cucumber was offered at such a reasonable price that many people

A Gift From The Indians Heirloom Beans

indians heirloom beans

Heirloom beans, what are they? Heirloom beans are the ones that our fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers have been growing year after year here in New England.  They have selected them