Gardening Tips by Bob Beyfuss

Lessons About Life that Trees Teach Us
Be firmly rooted in your particular place. Trees are not wishy-washy, nor are they easily pushed around or moved once they have become established. Some humans have these attributes, too. Together they are referred to as “integrity.”

All About Fruit

Mid-summer gardening
August marks the middle of our gardening season as well as mid-summer and this year I feel like we have already experienced a legitimate summer! July was one of the warmest on record in our region and most vegetable gardens are at peak production. This is actually a good time to plant some seeds for fall season harvests of lettuce, spinach, beets, radishes and assorted other salad greens.

Thirty-Four Species of Birds
I know this is supposed to be a gardening column but I seem to get more e-mail responses to my columns about birds than my usual “tips.” Actually my tips are often reminders of chores I tell you to do but often fail to do myself! This week I will revisit our feathered friends.

I just returned from my annual driving trip to Florida and I am happy to see that all the snow has finally melted around my property. When I left in late March there was still more than a foot of the white stuff in my woods. Ironically, temperatures in Albany were actually warmer than Florida for almost a week.