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Between the Rows: Achieving a healthy lifestyle through gardening

by Pat Leuchtman For The RecorderDecember 15, 2017

Arial view of the urban forest, better known as Central Park in New York City. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Pat Leuchtman and her husband visited there. We paid attention to the trees along the paths, many of which were helpfully labeled.

Between the Rows: Appreciating beauty, benefits of trees

by Pat Leuchtman For The RecorderDecember 8, 2017

On her outing, the columnist got to meet owner Andy Cowles, pictured, and his loyal assistant Carol Dwyer in the propagating greenhouse at Andrews Greenhouse in Amherst. They will also have ranks of familiar Christmas flowers, but Leuchtman was lucky enough to see the plants that they propagated themselves.

Between the Rows: Gifts for a gardener this season of color

by Pat Leuchtman For The RecorderDecember 1, 2017

Between the Rows: Gift ideas for garden lovers

by Pat Leuchtman For The RecorderNovember 24, 2017

Cindy Efinger, right, from Windsor Jambs Farm sells a handful of garlic to Jaimye Bartak during the recent Greenfield winter farmers market at the Four Corners School.

Between the Rows: Counting our blessings for local food

by Pat Leuchtman For The RecorderNovember 17, 2017

The soil samples have been cleaned, mixed with water and filtered to make soil extracts that will be tested by the spectrometer to identify 16 minerals.

Between the Rows: Answers to all your soil needs are one test away

by Pat Leuchtman For The RecorderNovember 5, 2017

At the Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls, spoon mums are a bright pink next to blue/purple asters. These flowers generally stay abloom well through October.

Between the Rows: Blooming time isn’t over yet

by Pat Leuchtman For The RecorderOctober 27, 2017

Pat Leuchtman spreads cold compost on a bed where perennials have been cut back. The compost bins that many of us use for our kitchen scraps, grass cuttings and weeds, use the heat created by the rotting process to make cold compost. In a different process, leaves break down in their aerated wire bin without heat. It does take a full year, and sometimes longer to be usable, but it is valuable compost.

Between the Rows: Wonderful cycle of composting

by Pat Leuchtman For The RecorderOctober 20, 2017

Grosscup’s vegetable bed is now full of radishes, vetch and winter rye, acting as a cover crop that will call up different communities of microbes.

Between the Rows: Soil, just like plants, needs to be cared for

by Pat Leuchtman For The RecorderOctober 13, 2017

Sue Chadwick’s first-place pumpkin at the Franklin County Fair. Although hers isn’t an official white pumpkin, just pale in appearance, there are a number of white pumpkin varieties available, from baby boo to flat white boer ford to the Cinderella pumpkin.

Between the Rows: Reasons to embrace pumpkin season

by Pat Leuchtman For The RecorderOctober 6, 2017