Organ­i­cally rich, com­post is easy to make with things you cur­rently just throw in the garbage can. Photo by Kessler Pho­tog­ra­phy It might be too hot to do much in the gar­den besides the basics, but it’s a good time to start mak­ing com­post if you haven’t already. Com­post is decayed organic mat­ter that has […]

Yuliya Libkina on Flickr Earth Day Homage #2 Yes, we are very, very glad to see the rain these days. It seems the drought here on the east coast may have ended,or abated some­what,  at least until sum­mer comes. See­ing a rainy day is good when it means the lakes have a lit­tle water in them […]

Earth Day is Com­ing! Sed­i­ment pol­lu­tion in a muddy river _ USGS Photo April 22nd, 2010 is Earth Day. This has turned out to be a greater than one day event.  Earth Day has takenon  a global aware­ness month sta­tus with events and cam­paigns to high­light ser­vice to the envi­ron­ment. As an homage to that I am […]

I don’t know about you, but I really, really don’t like rodents run­ning loose, either in my house or on my prop­erty. Pets aside, rodents are not much fun.  Car­ry­ing dis­eases, dig­ging up the land­scape, eat­ing elec­tri­cal wires, bit­ing chil­dren, destroy­ing plant­i­ngs and crops, and drop­ping mouse dirt all over the house are only a […]

We are work­ing hard to pre­pare for an “offi­cial” launch of Land­scape & Gar­den Today.  Need­less to say, there seems to be more work than time, but it’s fun to see LGT take shape.  Here’s cross­ing fin­gers it will be pic­ture per­fect in the next few weeks, but Christ­mas is always com­ing, or so mother […]