Quality Entertainment Sharing quiet time with your family couldn’t be more exciting than backyard birding. Just when the weather puts a damper on outdoor plans, whether with drizzly rain, deep cold, or just an otherwise “blah” kind of day, activity at bird feeders tends to pick up. On beautiful days, birds often disperse to find… Read More
Intensive Management If the reason you started gardening is to have an abundant supply of fresh vegetables, then succession planting should be a part of your program. Maybe it already is to some extent, but if you are like me there is always room to improve and bad habits to quit. Succession planting is a… Read More
A Gift of Fermented Cabbage Every Christmas we are fortunate to receive a boxful of home preserved goodies from our family in West Virginia. In fact, it just wouldn’t be Christmas if I did not get my annual supply of apple butter, pickled green beans and sauerkraut. My father-in-law makes a stock pile of this… Read More
Gardening By The Signs Phenology simply refers to observation of biological occurrences in nature. This could include, among other things, when certain plants begin to bloom, when specific birds begin to migrate or when leaves of particular trees begin to turn color in fall. These events are also referred to as “the signs”. This information… Read More
Merry Christmas Eve! It’s been a fantastic year for The Prudent Garden! The garden was VERY productive and Mark was able to stop working a 9-5 and focus completely on his freelance writing career and our blog. We look forward to what 2015 will bring for us as gardeners, writers and bloggers. We are off to… Read More