The Sustainable-Enough Garden

 This year I’ve been faithfully following a new custom, a weekly inventory of what’s blooming in the garden. It’s turned out to be surprisin...

 Massachusetts is suffering from drought, as expected with climate change, and it’s getting to be a problem for gardeners. As of today, we’v...

Could you use some good news? Here’s some: last Thanksgiving the population of Western monarch butterflies counted in California increased b...

 While snow blankets the garden, it’s all potential. Dreaming of spring, I’m enjoying reading about ecological gardening—what I’ve been call...

 I was encouraged to see a recent New York Times story about replacing peat-based potting mix with more sustainable materials. I just wish ...

This fall I made a difficult decision to cut down two trees that framed the view from the house into the back of the yard. Now I have an opp...

What used to be a far-out, novel idea is now joining the mainstream: “Leave the leaves.” To support biodiversity and especially to provide p...