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
May 29 is a day when history, folklore, and ecology meet beneath the branches of one remarkable tree: the oak.
Raspberries and blackberries are wonderful plants – as long as they are kept under control. Give them a little too
May 28 brings hemp into the Garden Almanac, not as a modern controversy, but as an old household plant. In
May 27 is a quieter day in the Garden Almanac. It is not centered on one plant, one harvest custom
After rain, warmth and humidity can turn a healthy-looking grapevine into the perfect host for fungal disease. Downy mildew, powdery