The Radio Garden
The Radio Garden is a tiny plot in Felder's celebrated cottage garden that has "something done to it" every single week of the year - regardless of weather - to show that anyone can garden in a small space without working up a sweat. Along with selected seasonal annuals (antique and modern hybrid flowers, small-space vegetables and useful herbs), it includes hardy perennials, bulbs, and dwarf shrubs and antique roses. There is also a water feature, a large pot made from a tire, and night lighting. It is mostly natural, using compost, mostly organic fertilizers and no pesticides. Visit every week to see what Felder is up to - that you can be doing in your own garden.
This Week's Chore:
Not much going on in my little Radio Garden this time of year. too cold to do much but admire the hardy flowers like ornamental cabbage, pansies, kale, and burgundy mustard. But my "Feldergnome" (hand carved by artist Mick Mayberry of Brandon) is thinking about skating on the thick ice over the garden's cast-iron water pond. Meanwhile, I have gone through over half a cord of split oak in my roaring-hot front yard "fire pit" (made from a cut-off end of a propane tank, with welded-on railroad spikes for legs).
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