why 'more plants is always better' + 8/31 free webinar + easiest tomato sauce |
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Maybe seven or eight years ago, in a conversation with Landscape Designer Claudia West, she said a sentence that has really stuck with me as she explained her approach to selecting and combining plants.
“Plants are the mulch,” Claudia said then about making immersive landscapes that engage humans as much as they do pollinators and other beneficial wildlife. So it’s tempting to choose the plants we buy for our gardens based on their looks alone. Claudia and her colleague, Thomas Rainer, of Phyto Studio, who are co-authors of
the groundbreaking 2015 book “Planting in a Post-Wild World," have tougher criteria for which plants earn a spot in their designs. Claudia and I talked about how the Phyto Studio team figures out what makes the cut, and more. Plus: Comment for a chance to win a copy of “Planting in a Post-Wild World.” free q&a webinar 8/31 with ken druse (submit your questions!) I call them Urgent Garden Questions, because
when you have something you can’t sort out in the garden, it certainly feels like an emergency. This time of the season, with its weather extremes and other insults like destructive pest and diseases, usually produces a bumper crop of them. That’s why Ken Druse and I are offering a free
Urgent Garden Question Open House webinar on August 31, 2023 on Zoom, at 6-7:15 PM Eastern time (register at this link). The details: fast, skins-on tomato sauce to freeze It used to spend rainy days in harvest season
writing, and reading, and streaming a bounty of BBC and other British television series such as “Broadchurch” and “Silk”–oh, what would I do without public TV from both sides of the Atlantic? All the while I’d set consecutive small batches of tomato sauce to bubbling on the
stove…destined for the freezer. Even if it doesn’t rain much, or in years when my TV viewing leans to the Australian, the cooking process is the same. Keeping things really simple, my basic freezer red sauce goes like this: recap: making a fruitful landscape, with michael judd The term “food forest” from the permaculture world sounds big—like if I suggested you start one, you’d probably say, “I don’t have room for a forest of any kind.” But Michael Judd bets that most of us who garden have room for at least a little bit of fruity deliciousness in the form of a
tree or two, underplanted with some carefully chosen companions—maybe where a portion of the front lawn is right now, and maybe emphasizing native fruiting species. Maryland-based Michael Judd is a longtime champion of edible landscaping, the author of various books, including “For the Love of Pawpaws," and hosts an annual pawpaw festival each September. Lately he’s even the creator of a new app called Fruit Patch to help you get started on your own little food forest. (Above,
flowers of one of Michael’s favorites, the native pawpaw; photo by Jonathan Palmer, KYSU Land Grant Program.) i'm being honored 9/21 at wave hill in nyc—will you join us? I am very flattered—and actually quite
startled!—to learn that I will be honored next month by Wave Hill, a public garden in New York City that has been a source of decades of inspiration and learning to me as a gardener. Their annual gardeners party, on September 21 this year, benefits their world-renowned gardens, and the John Nally Intern Program, which each season welcomes several lucky candidates to work and train alongside Wave Hill's expert staff—mentoring the next generation of great
gardeners. Each year there is an honoree, and this year: I’m it! |
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