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Garden Sanitation
No, this is not yet another article on Coronavirus/COVID-19. I figure you have heard and read enough on the topic that you decided to go...
Jennifer Tan
Apr 4, 20203 min read
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Be Radish
I have a thing for radishes. Some vegetable growers have a thing for tomatoes, and when I say they have a “thing,” I mean they...
Jennifer Tan
Mar 28, 20202 min read
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Thinning Seedlings
Warming weather inspires many minds to the vegetable garden. This week, Wellfield staff direct sowed the first vegetable crops of 2020:...
Jennifer Tan
Mar 21, 20202 min read
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The Ides of Cover Crops
As we celebrate the Ides of March, the madness of March, Einstein and my brother’s birthdays (happy birthday, bro!), this main street...
Jennifer Tan
Mar 14, 20202 min read
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Skyscrapers and Plants
Early spring brings with it the possibility of high winds, and even tornadoes, as Nashville experienced this past week. In my last blog...
Jennifer Tan
Mar 8, 20203 min read
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Designing for Disaster?
First, before I get rolling with this week’s blog from the Gardener on Main Street, I would like to offer a rarefied Happy Leap Day to...
Jennifer Tan
Feb 29, 20204 min read
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Anything but a Bore
All the sun we’ve had recently has me chomping at the bit here on Main street, ready to get the hip, non-hipster gardening season off the...
Jennifer Tan
Feb 22, 20201 min read
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Vegetable Planning Tips
If you were wondering what Wellfield’s horticulture staff has been doing this fine, cold winter week (and I am sure you were not), we’ve...
Jennifer Tan
Feb 15, 20202 min read
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Wild for Wildflowers
Gardeners often spend January and February pouring over seed catalogues dreaming, always dreaming. They turn the pages, suddenly halting...
Jennifer Tan
Feb 8, 20202 min read
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Kisetsu: The Year of the Island Garden 2020
Akemashite omedetô gozaimasu! Happy New Year to gardeners everywhere. In 2020, Wellfield Botanic Gardens is celebrating the opening of...
Jennifer Tan
Jan 18, 20202 min read
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An Oration on Aeration
“Oh gardener, my gardener, I came to a fork in a garden path and I took the one less compacted”. Thus begins absolutely no poem I have...
Jennifer Tan
Dec 27, 20192 min read
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The True Spirit of Wellfield
There are days, as the executive director of a local not-for-profit, that I find myself overwhelmed by the outpouring of support we...
Eric Garton
Dec 17, 20193 min read
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Pesky Shrooms in the Lawn
A coworker recently stopped by my desk wondering what to do with the painfully persistent mushrooms popping up in their lawn after a...
Jennifer Tan
Dec 13, 20191 min read
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Let It Snow, Let It Snow
The large amount of snow we received earlier in the season prompts a reminder blog post from yours truly: your hip, non-hipsta’ gardener....
Jennifer Tan
Dec 2, 20191 min read
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Overwintering Potted Woody Plants
My parents had a beautiful tri-colored Japanese maple they kept in a pot on their deck for many years, but because of where they lived,...
Jennifer Tan
Nov 22, 20192 min read
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Frost and Winter Plant Protection
Up until this week, the cold November nights foreshadowed the wintery cold coming soon to a landscape near you. This week’s foot of...
Jennifer Tan
Nov 15, 20192 min read
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When to Cut Stuff?
The last few nights brought some hard frosts to Wellfield, accelerating the process of leaf senescence in the herbaceous layer. Hostas,...
Jennifer Tan
Nov 1, 20192 min read
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Magic Forty
Every fall, I keep a close eye on forecasted night temperatures, especially as we approach our area’s average first frost date around...
Jennifer Tan
Oct 19, 20191 min read
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A Maybe Not So Fabulous Fall Prediction
I hate to be a downer in these dastardly droughty days , but I am predicting a not so fabulous fall color season this year. Brace...
Jennifer Tan
Oct 11, 20191 min read
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Dry Days
Well, it is your hip, non-hipster gardener, back with his dry sense of humor, ready to chat it up about another timely topic, the...
Jennifer Tan
Oct 5, 20192 min read
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