Ta Ta & Toodle-oo Tomatoes
Photos & text by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator There’s something incongruous about a chilly 50 degree, gray, wet day and the warm color […]
Squashing a squash pest
by Laura Schumm, Community Kitchen Garden Research Intern, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden So far this season here in the Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden, the squash vine borer has been one […]
Get Ready for Fall Planting (& The Fall Plant Sale!)
by Janet Woody, Librarian, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden It’s been a long hot summer, but hang in there a little longer and it will be fall planting time. Fall is […]
Nature’s Perfect Bead
Legend tells us that when Job wept “tears unto God,” his tears fell to the ground, but were not wasted, for each drop grew into a tall, ornamental grass bearing […]
The “Wow” Factor
Photos & text by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator This post is all about the photograph. Well, not really the photograph but the subjects. […]
The Down Side of Downy Mildew
Like any vegetable garden, the Community Kitchen Garden here at Lewis Ginter has its fair share of pest and disease problems. I’m the Community Kitchen Garden Research Intern for the […]
Ecological Design equals Solutions for Our Future
by Lisa Taranto, co-founder of Tricycle Gardens, researcher, lecturer & instructor of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden‘s class: Permaculture: How the World Works An ecological crisis. An environmental crisis. A jobs crisis. […]
From/To
by Albert Brian Vick, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Community Kitchen Garden Coordinator Things are rapidly getting in gear at the 2012 Lewis Ginter Community Kitchen Garden. We mentioned a small […]
The Earth Moved Under my Feet
by Janice Hunter, Children’s Garden Volunteer, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden “The earth moved under my feet today,” at least that is what I told my husband when he asked about […]
Why Gardening Makes Me Happy
Before I had kids, whenever I felt grumpy, regardless of the season, I started work on my garden. In no time, my grumpiness floated away into the sky or down […]