I’m sensing gleeful anticipation all around — in people I meet, in the mail. A recent email from a gardener expressed it well: “It’s March. Spring is coming. Yippee!” The thought of spring, . . .
There is little more satisfying that creating a salad using freshly
harvested lettuce. This is a red butterhead called Edox.
Mashed Potatoes is a light-coloured acorn squash with white flesh that, cooked and fluffed, is an interesting alternative to potatoes similarly prepared. Helen Chesnut
Wait until after they have bloomed to prune lilac and other late-spring flowering shrubs. Helen Chesnut photos I’m not much given to navel- gazing angst, but I must admit that the bout of cold, snowy weather last month reminded me how much I rely on time in the garden to maintain a sense of mental and physical well-being.
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Dear Helen: You often write about pansies and violas. Do you prefer one over the other? P.L. Both belong to the genus Viola, of which there are hundreds of species, but for home gardening . . .
Snapdragon and sweet peas are among the annual flowers that can be seeded early indoors and transplanted outdoors while the weather remains cool, in early spring. Helen Chesnut
Snapdragon and sweet peas are among the annual flowers that can be seeded early indoors and transplanted outdoors while the weather remains cool, in early spring. Helen Chesnut
Aspabroc produces small broccoli florets over many weeks. Helen Chesnut Once again, February has expressed itself as a trickster and a tease. The month has a pattern of turning on a “green light” for gardeners, in the form of mild temperatures and sunshine. And we fall for it, horticultural fervour bubbling away as we prepare plots for first seedings and bid farewell to winter, just as it prepares for a return engagement.