Gardener’s Self-watering Planter: Assembly, Disassembly, Reassembly
Long-time readers of RainyDayMagazine’s RainyDayGarden section know that we have only three rules when it comes to gardening: Don’t water unless absolutely [...]
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RainyDayRobins: Nesting, Hatching, Feeding, and Fledging
At the end of May, we noticed that the wooden divider between the RainyDayGarden and our neighbor’s was literally falling apart. We planned on writing an article on the [...]
Birding in the Backyard (BBY): City Birds
When somebody says that they “went birding,” most people think that they: headed into the woods, or hiked out onto the marsh, or drove to a distant destination, [...]
Patterns In Bloom @ NEBG
Boston used to host the Massachusetts Horticultural Society‘s huge annual New England Spring Flower Show, which heralded the beginning of Spring. We think the show [...]
Farmers Defense: FirstLook / FirstUse
Tired of getting scratched up, burned up, or bitten up while working in the garden? The folks at Farmers Defense has a solution for all that and more. This is a bag of [...]
Voynich Manuscript
A fifteenth-century codex (“A manuscript volume, complete or fragmentary, as of a classic work or the sacred Scriptures”), discovered in 1912 by rare books dealer [...]
RDG: Clover Patching W1-W4 Update
It has been a month since we first seeded the various sections and bald patches in the RainyDayGarden (RDG) with microclover and drought resistant grass/clover mix! This [...]
RDG: More clover patches
We noticed at the beginning of Spring there were sections of the RDG (lawn) lawn needed some TLC. Having tried different grass seeds in the past with limited reward, we [...]
RDG: Patching the lawn…with clover
We stopped using weed killer about a decade ago, and the RainyDayGarden is better for it. Sure, we get the occasional unwanted visitor taking up residence in spots we would [...]
RDG Spring 2022 Summary
The RainyDayGarden is pretty established at this point, and much to the delight of the interns, the work required to maintain it leans mainly toward trimming, pruning, and [...]
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