In the garden with Felder: Gambling in the garden
It’s legal to gamble in the garden, which is good because I just threw money, effort and hope at some tomato plants.
In the garden with Felder: Good ‘fences’ help make good gardens
I have an expensive dilemma in my little garden, thanks to an appreciation of wildlife. My altruistic intentions are one thing, but keeping voracious interlopers off my vegetables is a whole ‘nother issue.
In the garden with Felder: Mississippi, let me count the seasons
Never know how to dress these days, much less what is safe to plant.
This time of year, it’s ups and downs, temperatures jerking from 70 one day to 30s the next. It’s the season weather forecasters can only shrug sheepishly.
In the garden with Felder: Composting can be fuss-free
I just “86ed” some of my garden by tossing freeze-damaged plants and trimmings into my leaf-pile compost bin. It will be run back through the garden later.
In the garden with Felder: Well, that hurt. Now what?
I survived this month’s single-digit freeze, but my garden wasn’t so fortunate. What to do now?
In the garden with Felder: ‘We’re here, and we’re trying’
What’s the easiest DIY veg and herb garden for newbies?
In the garden with Felder: Tips from a prune-aholic horticulturist
I got clip-happy on a sunny day this week, whacking on shrubs and trees to get ready for another summer of flowers and fruit, and rooting some of the cuttings.
In the garden with Felder: All plant sites are not created equal
Gardeners get irked when plants refuse to step up and overcome challenging situations.
In the garden with Felder: Passing it on
Last week I stepped off the never-ending Mobius strip I call garden seasons to give a gaggle of neighborhood kids a little Nature perspective.
In the garden with Felder: Midwinter in the garden
This midwinter I’m enjoying a couple of classic Southern bulbs from the gardens of my great-grandmother and two grandmothers, and which come up every fall and grow through the worst winters. With no care whatsoever.
In the garden with Felder: Scents and associations
It’s been said that one person’s sweet perfume is another’s stink. Well, whether a smell is good or bad, it’s welcome in my garden. To a point.
Felder Rushing: A bit of hindsight and review
The adage that “hindsight is 2020” is usually pretty apropos; but, looking back, how about changing it to “let’s put 2020 in hindsight” and say g’bye to a weird year?
In the garden with Felder: Sometimes you turn a lemon into lemonade
Might not be any snow, but with a pair of loppers and shears we can transform winter gardens into lollipops and gumdrops. But a word to the thin-skinned: If you go crazy with creative trimming, you’ll get trash-talked.
Felder Rushing: Savor the experience of getting things done
While I was moving a shrub the other day my little-girl squeal, an unanticipated side note of gardening, came out.
In the garden with Felder: Looking back at a ‘natural’ Christmas
Sounds worse than it was, but while making naturalistic holiday decorations from garden gleanings I took off a minor part of my face.
In the garden with Felder: Still time to prep plants for Old Man Winter
Wish I had taken my own sage advice last week, to bring frost-tender plants indoors before it was too late.
In the garden with Felder: Cold-weather creativity in the garden
Must. Get. A. Grip. Little artsy crafts are turning my garden into my grandmother’s.
In the garden with Felder: Of growing and giving thanks
I barely survived a potent scorpion this week, in my kitchen which is as experimental as my garden.
In the garden with Felder: Mixing it up can be good for the soul
A little bit of this, a little bit of that … I just finished a new garden bed that is a nostalgic nod to my part-time home in northern England and the countless cottage gardens nearby which, because of the ‘rona pandemic, are far, far away right now.
In the garden with Felder: Proudly waving the magnolia
This is a shameless celebration. It’s mostly about a particular tree, but after two decades of pushing hard for it, even lobbying two special commissions, I’m over the moon to finally salute the magnolia flower on my beloved state’s new flag.