Cover Crops: Green Gold For The Garden

Many cultures have included edible flowers with or in their dishes as garnishes, ingredients in salads or even as a side dish, such as the stuffed or fried squash blossoms of some Native American tribes. [ … ]

Elderberries don’t get much billing in modern gardens, but these attractive plants were common fixtures in early American gardens. In fact, elderberries were so common a century ago that early settlers viewed them as ditch [ … ]

I’ve been gardening for more than 40 years. I’m particularly fond of vegetable gardening, although my wife is an avid gardener with flowers and decorative plants. Both of us, though, have confronted the challenge of [ … ]