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Time to: strip your tomatoes

August 31, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 5 Comments

My tomato plants, post end-of-summer pruning. It’s not quite time for the annual winter garden clean up (just typing that made me feel a little ill), but it’s a good idea to start to prepare for fall by planting your winter garden, and by pruning your tomato plants. Why prune? Two reasons: to focus the […]

Filed Under: Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: pruning, tomatoes, winter gardening

Why you should plant your winter garden in summer

August 19, 2010 by Andrea Bellamy 11 Comments

garlic bulbs fresh from the garden

Plan and plant in summer for harvests all winter long.

Filed Under: Veggies & Edibles Tagged With: cool season, overwintering, winter gardening

Berries in the winter garden

February 8, 2009 by Andrea Bellamy 8 Comments

Photinia davidiana (David’s Christmas berry) is a tough evergreen plant that also has white flowers in early summer. I last wrote about how hardscaping can make your garden in winter – and year round, for that matter. I still maintain that the hard landscape makes the biggest overall impact on the garden in winter, but […]

Filed Under: Garden Design, Perennials, Shrubs & Trees Tagged With: berries, gardening for winter interest, winter gardening

Hardscaping in the winter garden

February 5, 2009 by Andrea Bellamy 3 Comments

Even covered in snow, a bench is a focal point that provides a resting place for the eye and reminds us of peaceful reflection. [Photo: sarae on Flickr.] The experts are constantly exhorting us to add winter interest to our gardens. “Emphasize structure,” is a popular refrain. “Think about hedges, arbours and other permanent landscape […]

Filed Under: Garden Design Tagged With: Garden Design, gardening for winter interest, hardscaping, structure, winter gardening

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