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How to Plant Garlic Bulbils
The weather can get seriously nasty in November, but if you have a few garlic cloves left, you can still stick them in the ground. I laugh as I read that sentence, which I wrote after I got the main...
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Themes and Resolutions
"Glenham Arbor" by Henry Peeters, illustrating the concept of clearly defined boundaries - a vision of orderly garden loveliness. I should hang it on the wall of my workspace to help me visualize...
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Garlic is UP! and Much about Mulch
“The more one gardens, the more one learns; and the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.” ~Vita Sackville-West Status report: Mid-February and the garlic is up and growing...
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Self-Imposed Limitations, Sustainability, and Creatively Breaking Rules
I’ve hit a turning point. Actually, several of them. I figure if you’re lucky, you get a lot of them, because they are opportunities for growth, which, if you’re talking about a garden, is a good...
View ArticleGood Fungi vs Bad Fungi, Molds, Mildews, and Blights
A reader from Texas posed some very good questions relative to my recent post on the importance of building the soil and, in particular, the essential role fungi play in the process. (Read: To Convert...
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What Worked – or NOT – in the 2013 Garden
Winter Garden, by Vincent Van Gogh (it looks like a dark and twisted place, does it not? You needn’t go there.) It’s Garden Planning Season, and you know what THAT means: deep introspection to...
View ArticleZucchinis Gone Wild
Hi. Thanks for subscribing to Barbolian Fields. A new post has been added on the site at barbolian.com. Happy Gardening! Zucchinis: too much of a good thing? Cukes and zukes are not the same! Make sure...
View ArticleTomato Saga and Green Tomato Mincemeat
Hi. Thanks for subscribing to Barbolian Fields. A new post has been added on the site at barbolian.com. Happy Gardening! A story of growing tomatoes, from training them up a trellis to having them take...
View ArticleBlue Moon Garden Review
Hi. Thanks for subscribing to Barbolian Fields. A new post has been added on the site at barbolian.com. Happy Gardening! A cold winter's night beneath a blue moon: December 31 and it's that time of...
View ArticleJanuary Signs of Spring
Hi. Thanks for subscribing to Barbolian Fields. A new post has been added on the site at barbolian.com. Happy Gardening! I know it's cruel and unusual punishment to post these pictures of a rhubarb bud...
View ArticleBuying Seeds: Garden Planning Reality Check
Hi. Thanks for subscribing to Barbolian Fields. A new post has been added on the site at barbolian.com. Happy Gardening! Ha! Wasn't that incredibly irresponsible of me in my last post??? I mean, I'm...
View ArticleWhen All Else Fails, Buy Plants
Hi. Thanks for subscribing to Barbolian Fields. A new post has been added on the site at barbolian.com. Happy Gardening! A little retail therapy helped offset the dreary weather and having to face a...
View ArticleSt. James Infirmary (Ode-to-Garlic) Blues
Hi. Thanks for subscribing to Barbolian Fields. A new post has been added on the site at barbolian.com. Happy Gardening! A sad farewell to my garlic crop, which did not do well this year. And a thank...
View ArticleThe Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly
Hi. Thanks for subscribing to Barbolian Fields. A new post has been added on the site at barbolian.com. Happy Gardening! Think your garlic crop is a disaster? Look again. There might be something worth...
View ArticleEvery Soil Tells a Story
Hi. Thanks for subscribing to Barbolian Fields. A new post has been added on the site at barbolian.com. Happy Gardening! We delve deeper into the whys of a poor garlic crop this year, and although I...
View ArticleGarden Chaos – The Rest of the Story
Hi. Thanks for subscribing to Barbolian Fields. A new post has been added on the site at barbolian.com. Happy Gardening! The rest of the story... the late summer garden has turned out nothing like what...
View ArticleGarden Overwhelm, Equinox, & Finding Balance
Hi. Thanks for subscribing to Barbolian Fields. A new post has been added on the site at barbolian.com. Happy Gardening! If you are like me and some 19 million other people out there (or more), you...
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