Christy favors fruit gardening, including berries, although they are often shared with the local wildlife. Her favorite “garden” is her fairy garden that she adds to each year.
The leaves boast every shade of green,
the blossoms wag chromatic tongues.
Some impish dyer dyed them thus,
then hung the petals out to dry.
The ivy, clamped by clinging roots,
that clambers up a …
April in New England is a season of optimism. Not warm optimism, mind you. More like bundled-in-a-sweater, watching-the-weather-app, cautiously hopeful optimism. By the time April arrives, most gardeners around here …
The long arm of Mama’s gardening began with her youthful green thumb. Her first effort involved moving a clump of milk-and-wine crinum lilies from the corner of a fence to …
One of my favorite things about spring is the way it pulls us back into the world. After months of winter comfort foods and early sunsets, the season suddenly opens …
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Welcome to the March 2026 issue of Food Gardening Magazine! Here in the Northeast, March truly comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. The early weeks …
"What kind of bush is that?" my husband asked as I transplanted my gooseberry bush into one of our garden beds at our new house. I bought it through a …
Every March, I become a wildly optimistic gardener. It happens the same way each year. One warm-ish afternoon slips between the snowstorms, the air smells faintly like wet soil instead …
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Dear Gardeners,
Welcome to the February 2026 issue of Food Gardening Magazine!
Here in the Northeast, February settles over the garden like a long, patient pause. Snow still …
I have been a gardener since I was three years old. Knee-high to my grandfather, I helped him in our front yard flower garden. I bent down to pull weeds. …
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