Country Gardener

One of the great things about a garden blog is that it serves as a kind of diary. I've never been one to keep an official garden record ...

We had six inches of snow last night. Here's what the buried gardens look like. The view I get stepping out my door The four-square g...

Today is winter solstice which brings the shortest day - and the longest night - of the year. The good news is that after this the days will...

Our creek floods its banks again Winter's retreat is long and ugly: we have officially entered mud season. This is my least favorite t...

Crocus in bloom on this day a year ago I've never been one to keep a garden diary in book form, but the great thing about blogging and d...

Today's snowdrift in front of our hoophouse We tend to get our hopes up for an early spring when the calendar hits March, and the past f...

Everybody up here hates February, so on this 28th and last day, let me outline 10 reasons why I've learned love this much maligned month...

After last week's almost record snowfall, I was stuck by how lovely the snow was on our farm, and how easy it was to manage - and how ug...