The Vermont Gardener

  BUTTERNUTS I remember so well arriving in Vermont as a five-year-old and finding a world that was exciting, challenging, and dramatically ...

OUR NEW WEBSITE HAS ARRIVED!  We are pleased to announce that our Vermont Flower Farm website has been revised and is now available to you ...

  Supply Costs to Farmers It doesn't matter what size "garden" you grow, whether a few square feet or a few hundred acres, the...

ALLERGIES Here's an article from National Geographic showing recent findings that point to higher allergy issues as climate warms. I bel...

PEONIES In the old days, it was quite common, almost expected, to see peonies growing around every farmhouse in New England. Vermont was no ...

 Lilacs A Sunday afternoon but without any sun. Snow squalls and 27.5°instead. I just finished with the new web page for the lilacs we sell ...

  BUMBLEBEES IN VERMONT The Vermont Center for Ecostudioes just released this guide to bumblebees which some of you might be interested in. ...

  BUMBLEBEES It's always difficult for me to comprehend that 40% of all the pollinators in Vermont are bumblebees. Just the same, that...

SUMACS There are good and bad benefits to living by a river. Waterways are a magnet for all sorts of birds which is great......but.....they ...

 Keep Your Tools Clean Jan Johnsen has been writing a popular gardening blog, Serenity In The Garden , for years. This time of winter when t...

  I write about gardening in Vermont for the North Star Journal in Danville, Vermont. Somehow my post for January didn't get published s...

BAD WEATHER COMING   17.4° right now, a slight wind and a few snowflakes. By 3 AM tomorrow morning things will have warmed up and freezing r...

DEER  CONTROL I have written many articles about deer control and sometimes resort to sharing thoughts from other authors. Here's an art...

THE VERMONT CLIMATE ASSESSMENT I often mention climate related topics here or on my George Africa or Vermont Flower Farm & Gardens Faceb...

  This article was posted in the latest online version of the Smithsonian. If you are a gardener you are outside a great deal and you have a...

  Consider a Visit! For a couple years now I have posted this link to the Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware. My theory has been that maybe some of...

Bat Houses  As winter approaches I begin getting supplies together to build birdhouses for the farm and also the fields and forests at our h...

 For the past month, Gail has been picking flowers every morning and filling Mason jars with colorful arrangements for visitors to take home...

It's too late to plant them for 2021 but sunflowers might be something you would like to consider for 2022. Here's an article from t...

  AUGUST   HEAT I arrived at the flower farm before 5 this morning knowing that it would take several hours to get 11 sections of irrigation...