Slow Gardening in the Piedmont Story and Photo by Cynthia Wood For breakfast yesterday, I had toast piled high with leftover sautéed chard topped with a poached egg. It’s a favorite way to incorporate more veggies into my diet and use up leftovers. Sometimes I replace the chard with smushed avocado, and by early fall, …
Dispatches from the Hollow Story by Cathy Clary In spite of weather and climate irregularities – melting ice caps, drought, hotter temperatures, and longer summers (will the gardener’s woes never cease?) – our average last date of frost (LDOF) here in central Virginia remains May 15. In low pockets, like the hollow, as well as …
Slow gardening in the Piedmont Story and Photo by Cynthia Wood I never thought about garden etiquette when I was growing up in the country. We had acres of land and there wasn’t another house in sight. We planted whatever we wanted and kept the garden as neat and tidy – or not—as we saw …
