June 5 is World Environment Day, one of the world’s largest annual platforms for environmental awareness and action. Led by
Cucumbers are perfectly capable of sprawling across the ground like they own the entire vegetable patch. But just because they
June 4 brings a quiet and serious mood to the Garden Almanac. It is a day for thinking about refuge,
There comes a moment in late spring or early summer when the garden starts judging you. Or at least it
June 3 brings together one of the most grounded modern observances and one of the gentlest legends in the Christian
When the last petals fall, a peony can look as if the party is over. In reality, this is when
June 2 brings the Garden Almanac into the practical rhythm of early summer. The great spring rush of sowing and
June 1 opens the Garden Almanac with children, parents, food, harvest gratitude and the quiet work of tending the future.
May 31 brings one of the strangest and most charming pieces of household weather lore into the Garden Almanac: bacon
May 30 brings a small, modest plant into the Garden Almanac: salad burnet, Sanguisorba minor. In Hungarian tradition, it is