New and Old: Gardening Tips for All

As certain as the seed catalogs start arriving every December to January, a large number of Morrisons Cove residents have already or will soon trudge out into the yard, spade a patch, sow some seeds or earth in some plants.

Veg gardening for most of us is a tradition, something we witnessed as young children and something even the oldest among us find a sense of accomplishment.

Someone once said that as the hunter-gatherer got weary of the road he found a suitable spot, made a hut and plowed a garden.

It was much more suitable to grow an edible fruit-bearing plant beside the hut than spend...