Friday, 31 July 2015

Listening to your landscape

To have a more sustainable landscape, you need to listen...As a long-time gardener with a masters degree in botany, I was certain that I could garden in north Florida when my husband and I moved here in 2004. I've told this story before, but I was shocked and surprised at how wrong I was. Some Florida...

Wednesday, 29 July 2015

A robust tromboncino squash (and other squash musings)

img alt="" height="262" src="data:An exuberant squash patchI've been growing tromboncino squash for many years as an alternative to summer squash, which always seem to succumb to squash vine borers both in the Piedmont and in the mountains.  Not to mention squash bugs.The C. moschata varieties...