lichen moths: shiny, lovely, weird
IT WAS 90-SOMETHING DEGREES OUT, however the lichen patterning on one patio stone regarded like snowflakes, and I took a photograph. That morning, I had shot one other image, of…
after the flood: tomato troubles in a moist 12 months
T OMATOES ARE IN THE HEADLINES LATELY, significantly all through the areas of the nation the place climate has been document or near-record moist. The gardener’s best-laid plans could not…
earthworm 101, with nice lakes worm watch
PERHAPS THE CREATURE the gardener is aware of greatest is the earthworm, however how deep does that data go? Recently readers have been emailing me sensational headlines about “unhealthy” earthworms,…
‘the way in which by the woods: of mushrooms and mourning,’ with lengthy litt woon
I HAVE ONLY lately tuned in to mushrooms actually in any respect, regardless of a lot of a life spent engaged with the outside. So once I noticed a evaluate…
rising mushrooms (and the way fungi develop themselves), with john michelotti
HAVE YOU EVER grown mushrooms? Or maybe they’ve simply grown themselves in numerous elements of your backyard at totally different moments of the season and also you’ve puzzled: why there,…
the marvel of lichens, with jessica allen
SOME OF THE most lovely and complicated creatures within the backyard aren’t crops in any respect. A range of lichen is exhibiting off proper now on tree bark and branches,…
new neighbor: the shaggy mane mushroom
I’VE BEEN TAKING WALKS these days, relishing the prolonged fall I do know can’t final, having fun with the press of sole to soil earlier than it will get slippery…
hugelkultur, nature’s raised backyard beds
FOR NEARLY 30 YEARS I’ve grown my greens in raised beds, however the sort that you might want to buy lumber and bolts and use a noticed and hammer to…
a stroll within the woods with naturalist charley eiseman
I READ ABOUT a smartphone app the opposite day within the newspaper, one which’s meant to assist ID belongings you occur upon whereas on a hike. Naturalist and writer Charley…
of fairy rings, and amanita mushrooms
ANOTHER REMINDER TO STOP, LOOK—after which look it up: A hoop of mushrooms, sufficiently big and plentiful sufficient to be seen from out the window 50 ft away, piqued my…