Tag: wood chips

  • Winterizing Figs: A Mistake to Learn From

    Winterizing Figs: A Mistake to Learn From

    Why do I have time to blog about my mistakes now, yet I wasn’t paying close attention when I made them? Ach! In this post, I’ll focus on two of the eight raised beds in my garden. One contains a single fig tree—an unknown variety that I’ve labeled “Unknown Prolific.” The other holds three fig…

  • Wood Chips for your Garden

    I found this amazing mountain of wood chips off Route 208 in Orange County that has been sitting there unattended for a couple of years. Well, I go there once or twice a day with four buckets and a pair of gloves. I fill the buckets and take them home, where I use them to…