2020 offered plenty of successes in the garden
Top: A pea stone pathway lined with bricks was a big project but was worth it to keep out weeds. Above left: Calycanthus or sweetshrub is a shade-loving shrub the author loves. Above right: Blue beauty tomatoes are a good-looking early variety. Left: Dahlias make nice cutflowers.
Henry Homeyer. (Courtesy photograph)
Modified: 1/10/2021 9:02:07 PM
By HENRY HOMEYER
This past year was a tough one for many of us: isolation due to COVID-19, political turmoil, employment interruptions and more. But in the garden? For me, it was pretty good, overall.
It was a very dry summer, but that meant that there were fewer fungal diseases on my tomatoes and phlox. Since a small stream passes through my property, the water table is high, and my established plantings did fine with little supplemental watering.
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