Editor’s Note: This column was last published on 21 October 2020. What to do this week This week, I want to do a checklist for putting your garden to bed for the winter. Some of the items on my list have been covered recently in more detail, so IRead More
Editor’s Note: The Spectator is reaching into Michelle Smith’s gardening column archive for some weekly advice that is as relevant now as when it was first written. This column last appeared on 16 September 2020. What to do this week This time of year there is a lot going on for gardeners.Read More
Editor’s Note: The Spectator is reaching into Michelle Smith’s gardening column archive for some weekly advice that is as relevant now as when it was first written. This column last appeared on 19 August 2020. What to do this week This week, we are still on harvesting, and mid-season busy-ness. IRead More
Editor’s Note: The Spectator is reaching into Michelle Smith’s gardening column archive for some weekly advice that is as relevant now as when it was first written. (This column last appeared on 5 August 2020.) What to do this week Let the serious harvest begin! (Depending, of course, on what youRead More
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Editor’s Note: This column last appeared on 24 June 2020. What to do this week Summer is here and we begin the frantic time of planting all the warm-weather crops as quickly as possible before too much of our very short season passes us by. Every year is different,Read More
Editor’s Note: This column last appeared on 10 June 2020. What to do this week This is the time of year when you might be starting a new garden bed — maybe your first, maybe an extension of your existing garden — which makes it a good time to talkRead More
Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on 6 June 2018. What to do this week You may think crop rotation is only for big farming operations, but you have a lot to gain from doing it too. It is just as important in a backyard garden. If you plantRead More
Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on 30 May 2018. What to do this week This time of year many people are starting to move their seedlings from the house or greenhouse to the garden. Even if you have decided to run the risk of frost, your seedlings willRead More
Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on 16 May 2018 but I suspect the picture of the lilacs in full bloom was from the previous spring. What to do this week There is an old folk saying that one should not plant summer crops until the lilacs and appleRead More
Editor’s Note: This column first appeared on 2 May 2018. What to do this week This week is a good time to divide rhubarb, as well as a few other perennial plants, but rhubarb especially. If at all possible, you want to do it when you just see theRead More
