“Garden Notes” is a bi-weekly gardening column by Abigail Higgins that offers practical advice, seasonal tips, and observations for Vineyard gardeners. The column covers everything from planting and pruning to pests, flowers, vegetables, and caring for local landscapes throughout the year.
Garden Notes: Trees, ever more important
Harvesting our vegetables.
Garden Notes: Look out for laurel wilt
And check your harvests.
Garden Notes: Showing up
Exercise your secret power: Propagation.
Garden Notes: The pleasures of daylilies
And the problem of voles.
Garden Notes: Summer tasks galore
Carthusian pinks create a spreading tapestry.
Garden Notes: Solstice time has arrived
Consider flowering trees, stronger once established than many flowering plants.
Garden Notes: Spring bulb fantasies
And reassurance on boxwood anxiety.
Garden Notes: Perfumes in the air
Seeing off beeches and looking for replacements.
Garden Notes: Cool-season seeds are set to go
Forsythia branches touching ground will root there.
Garden Notes: Arbor Day
And planting your own asparagus — yay!
Garden Notes: Looking for ideas and inspiration
Start to prune your summer flowerers.
Garden Notes: Geraniums are pelargoniums
And it’s dahlia time!
Garden Notes: Spring awakening
Here are some Marching orders.
Garden Notes: Citrus in winter
And hyacinths to hurry spring along.
Garden Notes: Valentines for now and later
Don’t count out the ticks yet.
Garden Notes: Tick check, still
In anticipation and appreciation.
Garden Notes: In with the new
Dealing with the freeze/thaw cycle.
Garden Notes: December
Leafminers and Braised Leeks
Garden Notes: Garlic and asparagus beds are calling
And a soup for guests with alpha-gal syndrome.
Garden Notes: Looking at trees, in our yard and our world
Finding protected spaces for your plantings.
Garden Notes: Bringing in the outdoors
And ways to revive your amaryllis.
Garden Notes: Answer your garden’s fall questions
It’s time to plan how you’ll protect young trees from bucks.
Garden Notes: Fall’s shorter days arrive
Order your spring bulbs now.
Garden Notes: September
Under a Corn Moon.
Garden Notes: The ‘surprise’ lilies have returned
Beat the high price of new dahlia bulbs by storing your own.
Garden Notes: Handmade fertilizers and planning for fall
And a tip that’s working for my figs.
Garden Notes: At summer’s turning point
Look ahead to vertical accents for next year.
Garden Notes: More on the glories of hydrangeas
And appreciate a porch near you.
Garden Notes: aftereffects of heat
And consider a sweet and calming birdbath.
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