Old hat, zone 4, cold climate garden blog.

One of the nice things about gardening is that it’s not all about gardening. Last summer while watering the dill plants we found a caterpillar.  Although we like to think of ourselves as up to date in the bug department we went to the Audubon book for an identification.  It turns out it was a [...]

One of the challenges for zone 4 gardening is dealing with the effects the cold weather has on the plants.  Not the ones in the greenhouse but the ones in the beds. When we have a good amount of snow, as we do this year, the plants are insulated from the cold.  A good cover [...]

The weather men were all excited as the forecast of a snow storm blared from the tv, radio and Internet.  You would have thought that we had never seen snow before.  Shoot I can remember Decembers when we got over 100 inches of snow.  When we were kids there was always plenty of snow.  And nobody [...]