gardening
By Jim Friedlich on Monday, Aug. 22, 2011 - 2:45 pm
This spring I took off from my investment business, and we moved to our second home in Shokan. We’ve been summering here for over a decade, but this year was different. In place of obsessively checking my Blackberry, I set sight on cultivating the perfect... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jul. 13, 2011 - 5:33 pm
Bill Butler plows a field in Lexington with a team of horses. Photo via the town of Lexington's website.
During the last week of June, the town of Lexington in Greene County broke ground on its brand-new community garden in a way that most back-to-the-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jun. 8, 2011 - 2:10 pm
They're here at last: sweet, tender sugar snap peas, the star of the early-summer vegetable garden. The owners of Catskill Native Nursery in Kerhonkson posted this photo of the first of their Sugar Anne peas on their Facebook wall today.
Pea season means... Read more
By Ellen Verni on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010 - 6:49 am
Ellen Verni has been writing "Home Cookin'," her column of Catskills recipes and rumination, for 24 years. She is sharing some of her archived columns with the Watershed Post. The column below first ran in October 2002. You can get more of Verni on her... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 - 4:03 pm
It's going to freeze good and hard on Sunday morning in Delaware, Otsego, and Sullivan counties, the National Weather Center in Binghamton is predicting. So if you've got any tomatoes left, bring 'em in now:
...WIDESPREAD FREEZE EXPECTED EARLY SUNDAY... .... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2010 - 5:13 pm
Downy mildew on a basil plant: From the Cornell Dept. of Plant Pathology website. It's downy, it's mildew-ey, and it's out to wilt your basil, the Times Herald-Record reports:
It's called downy mildew, and it's infecting basil plants across New York, as... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 28, 2010 - 10:38 am
Buried in an early kale crop? The Catskill Kiwi has some ideas for what to do with it, starting with an aromatic pan of olive oil, onions, garlic and red pepper flakes.
Photo of tender young red Russian kale by Flickr user bec.w. Posted under a Creative... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Jun. 8, 2010 - 2:10 pm
The Catskill Kiwi harvested her first french breakfast radishes yesterday, and she's got the photos to prove it.
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Apr. 15, 2010 - 8:16 pm
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Mar. 22, 2010 - 11:40 am
March flowers: Female flowers of the silver maple, Acer saccharinum
In 1922, T.S. Eliot called April the cruelest month. Since then, global warming may have pushed the ficklest season’s sweet torments into March. As of last weekend, it’s officially spring... Read more
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