Old hat, zone 4, cold climate garden blog.

This time of year our mail box is chock full of seed catalogs.  Every year we get more and more so we thought it would be fun to highlight some of the more interesting, useful and unusual ones. The other day we received a catalog that we have not seen before.  It is R.H. Shumway’s Illustrated [...]

This year has been funny in that we have had some snow cover since November.  Funny in that for the past few years the winter has been relatively dry.  When we do not get much snow fall the ground tends to free faster than when there is cover. And in spite of the fact that [...]