Springtime at the Farm
There’s still no sign of the first green sprigs on the pecan trees here at the farm. Yes, I know...
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LIFESTYLE | How Does Your Garden Grow?
by Will Balk, Jr. | Mar 30, 2021 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
There’s still no sign of the first green sprigs on the pecan trees here at the farm. Yes, I know...
Read Moreby Sandra Educate | Mar 16, 2021 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
We’re lucky to live in a climate that allows us to grow stuff year ‘round. We can harvest two...
Read Moreby Laura Lee Rose | Mar 1, 2021 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
The general definition of a native plant is one that was here before European colonization. We...
Read Moreby Will Balk, Jr. | Feb 15, 2021 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
By Will Balk, Jr. Maybe the ice-storm photo here? Winter is barely one-third gone, and the past...
Read Moreby Sandra Educate | Dec 16, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
I don’t know how our editor, Margaret Evans, does it. I’ve only been doing this column for a...
Read Moreby Laura Lee Rose | Dec 3, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
By Laura Lee Rose When you start a journey there is always the first step. Then there are...
Read Moreby Will Balk, Jr. | Nov 10, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
Well, this certainly doesn’t seem right: November 11 is the beginning of the 2020 Masters...
Read Moreby Sandra Educate | Oct 27, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
I can’t count the times I have looked at a plant and said “Oh, I used to have one of those.” ...
Read Moreby Laura Lee Rose | Oct 12, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
Who are the Pollinators? Insects, including bees, beetles, wasps, flies, moths, and butterflies...
Read Moreby Will Balk, Jr. | Sep 29, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
Fresh garden fruits and vegetables and colorful swaths of blooms are only part of the impulse for...
Read Moreby Sandra Educate | Sep 15, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
The title for this article was inspired by my friend, Alice Massey, a former contributor to this...
Read Moreby Laura Lee Rose | Sep 1, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
Be amazed by the biodiversity in soil! The soil food web includes bacteria, fungi, nematodes,...
Read Moreby Will Balk, Jr. | Aug 18, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
Here at the farm, camellias – those magnificent queens of the southern garden – have been a part...
Read Moreby Sandra Educate | Aug 5, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
White flag. I surrender. I have expended my last vestige of energy on those cruel invaders. How...
Read Moreby Laura Lee Rose | Jul 21, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
I met a young farmer who said he was growing Yuccas in one of his fields. As a lifelong learner...
Read Moreby Will Balk, Jr. | Jul 7, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
I may be among the few human beings yet alive who can remember – and with fond appreciation – the...
Read Moreby Sandra Educate | Jun 24, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
No climate is perfect to grow everything. When Mother Nature was young, she allowed those...
Read Moreby Sandra Educate | Jun 23, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
No climate is perfect to grow everything. When Mother Nature was young, she allowed those...
Read Moreby Laura Lee Rose | Jun 9, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
I can just get it off my chest. I am a bird lover. I can’t begin at this late age to learn their...
Read Moreby Will Balk, Jr. | May 26, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
At various points during the year, I can predict with some certainty that a flurry of questions...
Read Moreby Sandra Educate | May 26, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
The year of Covid-19 is also the year when The Beaufort Garden Club needed to install a new Board...
Read Moreby Sandra Educate | May 12, 2020 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0
I suppose I should add armadillos, too. These are the creatures who make our lawns and gardens...
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