Get Growing: Putting the new garden to bed
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A new shade garden that Mickey Rathbun created with her son Nicholas over the summer. At top,slabs of Goshen stone make a curving path bisecting the garden. mickey rathbun photos
Published: 12/19/2020 11:03:41 AM
Many gardeners I know put in new garden beds this summer — vegetables, perennials, even moss — spurred by COVID restlessness and the desire to get their hands in the dirt. The impetus for me to add a new bed was the availability of manpower, specifically, the brawn of my 27-year-old son Nicholas, who fled the craziness of Brooklyn last May and stayed with my husband and me in Amherst for several weeks.