I’m out in the forest alone—well, I do have my chain saw and beat-up pickup for company. I smell the crisp, fresh air. I bask in the November sun, whose  …

We interrupt our regularly scheduled garden story . . . because we have been severely interrupted ourselves. By Hurricane Helene. North Carolina’s Asheville—and our outlying community of Fairview—were the areas  …

Illustrated by Nick Gray *For everyone who has been asking how Pat Stone is doing in Asheville - we heard from him and here is his first hand account. North Carolina’s Asheville—and  …

Shep Ogden, the fellow who started The Cook’s Garden seed company, happened to drop by last Summer, the day after the neighbor’s cows broke through the fence and chomped all  …

Countess Elizabeth von Armin wrote, “If Eve had had a spade in paradise and known what to do with it, we should not have had all that said business of  …

Oh, she’s dead. She is dead. I mean, she’s had her cantankerous moments before. Those times when she wouldn’t start no matter what. The days when she sputtered around all  …

Peas don't like me. I mean it. It's not my fault. I like them. There's nothing more symbolic of early-summer gar­dening success than grazing along a row of twining pea  …

What is the number one conversation topic of all gardeners? You know it: weather. We all know what Mark twain said: “Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything  …

Trowel out a hole … grab a root ball … set the plant in … tamp the dirt back in … water it all in … One. It’s a wet,  …

It happens every year. Every Spring. I forget all my failures. I forget the tomato seedlings that cooked in the cold frame last May. I forget the waves of weeds  …