These simple covered hoops serve a multitude of uses in the garden. Because we have such a short growing season at Beekman 1802, we have to give our seedlings every...

Climbing towards the sun. Many of our favorite vegetables in the Beekman Heirloom Vegetable Garden require some sort of trellising – tomatoes, beans, peas,...

Melon MELONS ORIGINATED IN AFRICA, and Egyptian hieroglyphics featuring melons date back to as far as 2400 BC.  It was seen as a source of portable water. The cantaloupe...

Melon ONE OF MY PERSONAL FLAWS is that I am an ice-cruncher.  I always ask for extra ice in any beverage that I’m served.  I suppose I’m hot-blooded and need...

WE’RE REALLY PUSHING MOTHER NATURE TO GROW MELONS WHERE WE LIVE. Some years mother nature gives in and allows us a few beauties, and other years – like...