by Bill Baker | Aug 28, 2016 | Other
A killer may be lurking in your garden! This is no mole, vole, fungus, mold, beetle or bug. Its skinny vines can strangle your flowers, and when its pods burst open and shower your flower bed with its seeds, seize control of your garden. It’s an invasion of a plant...
by Bill Baker | Aug 21, 2016 | Other
So few things in this life are free! Yet FP Environmental Associates, the environmental group working with the Conservation Commission and the town, is still offering free designs for your own water garden or any other method for controlling storm water runoff on...
by Bill Baker | Aug 14, 2016 | Other
I had never seen anything like it – a mouse size brown blur zipping between the house and the flowers growing along its edge. And then we saw one again, another near blur disappearing into the Pachysandra. Soon our Hostas began to die. Something was eating them; not...
by Bill Baker | Aug 7, 2016 | Other
Why was poison sumac named after the sumac family? Does it look like sumac to you? It doesn’t to me, and perhaps like you, I grew up with my dad combating sumac in the woodsy fringes around our yard and field, but poison sumac? I never knew what it looked like till...
