Cowlick Cottage Farm

Tag: southern gardening

  • What Really Worked — My Favorite New Plant This Year

    What Really Worked — My Favorite New Plant This Year

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    Carolyn Binder
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    This has been a really challenging gardening season. Are y’all with me? Daily deluges of rain and very little sunshine melted my garden and kept me in the cottage. Weeds are of epic proportions, and a host of gigantic chomping insects now call Cowlick Cottage Farm home. I am far from the only gardener that…

  • Preparing the Fall Garden

    Preparing the Fall Garden

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    Carolyn Binder
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    Southern gardeners are blessed with many things. Bourbon, shrimp and grits, for example. We are also blessed with long growing seasons, and this year we have even had abundant rain while much of the rest of the country bakes in drought. We are also about to face a hurricane here in the panhandle of Florida,…