Idaho Gardener

The National Gardening Association’s Charlie Nardozzi had a great email article yesterday about growing elderberries for beauty and bounty. In the section on Edible Landscaping, he details the available varieties of sambucus and how to tend to them.
Now, Idaho has tons of elderberries, all along the highway, on riverbanks, ravines, etc. The problem: where [...]

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Bed in Summer
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people’s feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard [...]

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But gentle, devoted reader, you are being rewarded for your persistence. Here it is in it’s entirety:
(Note: this is from LAST Monday. Week 6 will be reported to you on Thursday so please stay tuned.)
The Salad Days of June
June 23, 2008
Mary Ann Newcomer
I find myself kind of looking forward to Mondays. [...]

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Apologies to all for the goofy layout on the web post yesterday. Something is haywire with the code, maybe from the photos…….anyway, bear with while I try to straighten it out. Thanks.

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For my Red Dirt Girl who said SHOW ME,here’s the scene from smokin’ hot Idaho. I hate to say it, but as I type I think I see a nasty smoke cloud……just over the horizon. 105 in the shade and we aren’t even in July yet. Everybody into the pool!
So Dee, here [...]

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Just finished another wild week of gardening related activities, family stuff, business stuff, etal. Pooped, I am, I tell you. One day I even had to get up for my first magazine photo shoot (Jeffie’s garden) at 4:30 am. Crap of dawn, I tell you. O’ dark thirty. Worked two nights until [...]

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I am privileged to be a part of a great group of people who raise money for horticulture and horticultural education programs in Idaho. Here’s what we have been able to do:
The Lunaria League has raised $63,000 in 5 years and here is how it has been distributed:
Idaho Botanical Gardens
$50,000
BSU Horticulture Program: reference materials [...]

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This is a reprint of the journal entry I submitted to the Idaho Statesman online edition for week 3 of my CSA subscription.

From the Statesman:
I promised the editor I would be honest about how I used my CSA subscription and it’s already time to come clean….. it’s just week three.
Keeping up with all the [...]

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A friend of mine has a beautiful ranch, Raspberry Ranch, just below Snow Bank Mountain. I went up to visit the other day, to help plant the enclosed garden with old fashioned hollyhocks, basket of gold, daisies, phlox paniculata, big orange poppies………..so much for the hand of man (or women). Here’s the view [...]

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This recipe is from Mary Jane’s Ideabook. It appeared last week in the Spokesman Review newspaper and was forewarded to me by the one and only, Mary Jane.
Gotta tell you, I am groveling for more scapes from my farmer woman Casey. I can’t wait to try this. I have all [...]

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