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Be A Better Gardener: A Better Mulch for our Gardens

Sometimes even the best innovations have unexpected consequences. One of the most important and successful pieces of environmental legislation in the history of the United States, for example, inadvertently transformed the look of American gardens. And not for the better.

Gardeners Checklist: Here Is What to Do on the Week of June 3

Oh, shoots! Oh, potato beetles, cabbage worms, slugs, and powdery mildew. And what are the high stakes of staking your tomatos and perennials? Read Ron's latest tips and tricks for a glorious garden.

What Is Happening in the BBG Herb Gardens This Week (May 28)

Come visit Sweet Cicely and Lovage. And here are ways you can use these lovely herbs.

Gardeners Checklist: Here Is What to Do on the Week of May 27

Tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, summer and winter squash, melons, pumpkins, and cucumbers — oh, my! And hail to the Weeder-in-Chief!

Herbs of the week: Bigroot Cranesbill, Lady’s Mantle and Orris Root (from Irises). And in the kitchens, the chive harvest continues!

What Is Happening at the BBG Herb Gardens and Kitchen?

Herbs of the week: Bigroot Cranesbill, Lady’s Mantle and Orris Root (from Irises). And in the kitchens, the chive harvest continues!

Gardeners Checklist: Here Is What to Do on the Week of May 20

How to make the most of leafy greens. How to avoid punky radishes. How to evenly distribute tiny seeds such as carrots. Set out the transplants and more! 

Todd McGrain in his studio working on pieces included in his exhibition this season at Berkshire Botanical Garden.

The Lost Bird Project: With a Fist Full of Clay, He Began His Own Exploration

How did Todd McGrain come to focus on vanished species in general and these species in particular?

Peter D. Gerakaris' "Microcosms" in the Leonhardt Galleries

Microcosms: Peter D. Gerakaris Shares a Grander Scheme of Things

From inside his art studio in an old farmhouse he rents in Cornwall, Conn., Peter D.

Gardeners Checklist: Here Is What to Do on the Week of May 15

It's time to give plant and vegetable seedlings a breath of fresh air (but not too much). Also lawn fertilizer tips, peat pot maintenance and planting veggies in the flower garden!

Members of the Herb Associates on Roy Boutard Day, May 5, which featured the club's signature “Mai Bowle,” an herbal punch.

Herb Associates Celebrate History and Spring

The Herb Associates, the first defined group of volunteers at the Garden, share their first dispatch of the season!

Gardeners Checklist: Here Is What to Do on the Week of May 8

Caterpillar-like critters? Weed worries? Why plant coneflowers, Russian sage, Joe-Pye weed, etc.? What do roses love? What should you be scouting for now in your vegetable crops? What temptation must you resist? (Must, must, must resist?)

17 Students Graduate from BBG's Horticulture Certificate Program

On this, the 90th anniversary year of the founding of Berkshire Botanical Garden, we have another historic achievement to announce: Seventeen people have graduated from our Horticulture Certificate Program.

plants growing in dirt/Stephen Weeks on Unsplash

Be a Better Gardener: The Consequences of Fertilizer

One bit of advice I commonly offer to fellow gardeners at this time of year is to have a soil test done before you fertilize. With the data the test provides, you can apply precisely the nutrients that your soil lacks. Here's what to do.

Be A Better Gardener: Native Annuals

How native annuals can benefit your garden's ecosystem.

Be a Better Gardener: Annuals With Style

Be bold with annuals!

Here is What to Do the Week of May 1

It's asparagus and rhubarb time! Start checking for spider mites! And Ron reminds us: Don't forget Mom on Mother's Day!

Gardener's Checklist: Here Is What to Do On The Week of April 24

Your weekly tick warnings! Plus horseradish root management, seedlings and a celebration of Arbor Day!

field of corn stalks

Be A Better Gardener: Landrace Gardening

As a horticulturist, I was taught to be a plant connoisseur. Joseph Lofthouse of Paradise, Utah, recently changed the way I think about my Sandisfield garden.

 

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