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Abigail Higgins

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Garden Notes

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Homegrown, the vegetable gardeners' forum, meets March 20 from 4 to 6 pm at Agricultural Hall. Please finalize payment for seed potatoes, onion and leek plants now.

The benefits of bees

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Various life forms responsible for pollination depend on pollen, nectar, and water for themselves and their young. Having a variety of trees and plants is a huge assist for bees.

Winter starts to relent on Martha’s Vineyard

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Dawn arrives earlier now, sunrise occurring before 7 am. On a clear dawn the SE sky is spangled with a glittering "morning star," Venus.

Some gardeners even find winter fertile

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Whether under limpid or lowering (rhymes with glowering) skies, winter landscapes are often black and white, with snow-covered ground and evergreens blackened by cold.

Planning, testing, questioning pay off for gardeners

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It is easy to have the feeling of losing one's head.

Look ahead, look down, and look after plants and animals

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Farewell to the old year and its accomplishments and woes, and greetings to the new one with its challenges and hopes.

The sound, sight, and taste of Island gardens in winter

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Working late in the garden I looked up, prompted by the cawing of crows and the sound of their wings in the chilly clear air.

The lure of a formal garden

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Our recent Thanksgiving trip yielded a few horticultural observations, among many other holiday experiences.

Thinking of others

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Thanksgiving celebrations in the post-war years seemed to be a refuge for spiritual urges that did not involve commercialism.

Garden winterizing on Martha’s Vineyard

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Expectantly, threat of frost loiters everywhere, for this year's gardens are coming to an end. It is just the right time to start planning for next year.

Autumn beauty on Martha’s Vineyard

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Orion, the Hunter, is a constellation of autumn and winter and has been one of the brightest features of recent starry nighttime skies.

Sour milkweed threatens butterflies

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The lively and mellow Living Local/Harvest Fest took precedence over my being able to participate in the "Goldenrod: Identification of Island Species" workshop, interesting as it was to me, which was offered by Melissa Dow Cullina at Polly Hill Arboretum last Friday and Saturday.

Harvesting fruit on Martha’s Vineyard

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Miscanthus grass, a roadside volunteer approximately seven years old, has been joined by about ten more — one a stripey "Zebrinus" type! — nearby.

Late-season gardening on Martha’s Vineyard

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Upcoming at PHA: Fall Plant Sale, Saturday, Sept.

Know what you eat

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Another summer has sped by.

Trees, dogs, beans, and salt

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Our shade trees are demonstrating their importance during the increasingly hotter summers the Vineyard is experiencing.

The heat goes on

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The season has turned, and now the time of ripening is upon us.

Garlic, nepetas, neem

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July is here, yet it feels as if it has been July for three weeks already.

Keep on keeping up

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The West Tisbury Farmers' Market has resumed at the Grange Hall.

Go native, get wet

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We cut, clear, tidy, and attempt to create new idylls.