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Birding in the Backyard (BBY): City Birds

May 5, 2024 // 0 Comments

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

March 23, 2024 // 0 Comments

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

October 14, 2023 // 0 Comments

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

October 1, 2023 // 0 Comments

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

July 14, 2023 // 0 Comments

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

July 2, 2023 // 0 Comments

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

June 18, 2023 // 0 Comments

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

July 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

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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