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For Mary Mary, getting her garden to grow can be quite contrary — to the body.

As many as 400,000 people nationwide land in the hospital each year with gardening-related injuries, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Thousands more suffer aches and pains because they didn’t adequately prepare for the physical demands of planting, pruning and weeding.... Read more

When Bud Shriner asked his friend Janie Cohen if she wanted to curate his sizable vegetable garden near the University of Vermont this year, she wasn't sure she'd have time to dig in. Directing UVM's Robert Hull Fleming Museum tends to keep her hands full. But Shriner wanted to focus on "another garden in his life," as Cohen puts it. So she considered the idea. "I had helped Bud in his garden last year, and it was really my first experience on that scale," she recalls.... Read more

There aren't many summer vegetable stands in Burlington, but the city's neighborhoods boast a variety of roadside produce. Corn, cucumbers and tomatoes have sprouted in the city's greenbelts -- those narrow slivers of dirt between sidewalk and street -- as have clusters of boisterously blooming flowers.... Read more

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Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, is said to have miraculously appeared to the faithful on many occasions since her death nearly 2000 years ago. In 1994, her visage even popped up on a grilled-cheese sandwich; its owner sold it on eBay a decade later for $28,000.... Read more

Charlie Krumholz has a new toy: a 2-ton trailer with a hydraulic lift. On a recent Saturday it's filled with 3 yards of rich, black topsoil he's hauled from Burlington's Intervale Compost Facility to the Medical Center Community Garden. Turning onto the lawn from Colchester Avenue, he stops at one corner of the garden -- still just an L-shaped mound of dirt this early in the season. With the press of a button, he upends the trailer, and dumps the load. No shoveling required.... Read more

This year at the Champlain Valley Fair, the Green Mountain Bonsai Society tried something different with their display. Instead of putting their tiny trees next to the giant pumpkins and heirloom tomatoes, the 60-member group placed its pots on tables inside a square area bordered by cream-colored screens. Visitors essentially had to step into a different world to see them.... Read more

BURLINGTON -- Is Burlington sending out mixed marigold messages?... Read more

Nelida Willette kneels alongside a narrow patch of ground in front of her house at 163 North Champlain in Burlington. She sets a colorful burst of geraniums in the ground, tamps the soil, and then moves on to the pansies. Willette and her husband, George, have lived in this Old North End house for 19 years. Every spring without fail, they've gardened on the small strip of land between the sidewalk and the curb -- land that belongs to the city but that property owners are obligated to maintain.... Read more

When I pulled into the driveway of my mom's South Burlington home last June, I couldn't help but notice the front lawn had been replaced by what looked like an art installation crossed with a vacant lot. Up to then, my mom's suburban yard hadn't looked much different from those of her neighbors -- a plot of grass framed by flowerbeds, tall spruce, and juniper and arbor vitae planted a decade ago by landscapers.... Read more