Charlie makes food and ornamental gardening and edible landscaping fun. His easy manner, and informative style, engages

listeners, viewers, and readers alike.

Charlie is well known as:

• Public speaker
  
• TV show host
• Radio show host
• Book author and free lance web and print writer
• Garden coach

Contact Charlie for  work in any of the above areas. For more on Charlie, check out his bio page.

Follow Charlie: 

Western New England Gardens Bus Tour this July!

Check out this gardening bus tour I'll be co-leading with Leonard Perry of the University of Vermont to classic estate gardens, a botanical garden, and nurseries in Western New England on July 23rd-24th, 2012.



Ask Charlie...

Q. I heard I can use some unusual home products to fertilize my roses. Is this true?

Patty

St. Paul, MN

A. Yes, you can spread coffee grounds, over ripe bananas and epsom salts on your hybrid roses. Spread 1 cup of dried coffee grounds around each rose in spring. They like the nitrogen in the grounds. Bury a chopped up over ripe banana to provide some potassium. Dissolve 1 tablespoon of epsom salts in one gallon water to water your roses to provide magnesium and sulfur.

My New Book is Out!

My latest book: Northeast Fruit & Vegetable Gardening is now available. Here's the what the publisher had to say about the book.

"I just finished going through the first layout pages of your book. Normally, as publisher I just flip through a set of pages reading a couple of paragraphs here and there. However, you got me on page one and I stayed late and read every word. Well done!

I found your writing style to be very enjoyable. You make your reader very comfortable, and your knowledge of gardening comes through with the voice of experience, not research. I have always believed that gardeners just want to talk to gardeners, and you do a wonderful job of being conversational and informative."

- Ray Wolf, Publisher, Cool Springs Press, Brentwood, TN



Watch Charlie

Learn all about three unusual trees and shrubs with me on WCAX-TV CBS, In The Garden.

Watch all my weekly gardening tips on WCAX-TV CBS-Vermont

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Listen to Charlie

Listen to my weekly Vermont Garden Journal show on public radio. This week hear about the unsual story on one heirloom tomato.

Hear my weekly In the Garden call-in radio show podcasted from WJOY-AM.

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Where's Charlie??

Check here to find out where Charlie will be speaking in 2012. I'll be at the History in Bloom Garden Tour, in Woodstock, Vermont  on June 30th talking about my new edible gardening book. Come see me if you're in the area!

"I sat in on your New Jersey Flower Show presentation and was very impressed. Youve inspired me to redesign my front yard landscape (including planting my first fruit trees) and I just wanted to say thank you. I had never thought of making a beautiful, edible garden in my front yard." Linda - New Jersey