Bill Finch

I was determined to fully partake of this once-in-13-year feast myself. Next time, I'll add a bit of balsamic to the recipe.

Are you fully in the employ of spring?

Even if you haven’t figured out that Alabama’s climate is different than the rest of the country’s, ticks know their way around our seasons.

I always brace myself for the worst when I lift up the cloth I use to cover my vegetable garden during deep cold spells.

We’ve needlessly made our home gardens more complicated, more expensive, and – yes – more polluting.

The flowers that never bloom are being forced to live in “ideal” conditions fit only for computers and people who believe they should never break a sweat or put on a sweater.

It’s not just one type of plant that flaunts its gold. There are hundreds of types, not even particularly closely related.

This photo, published in the book "Economic Botany of Alabama," was taken in 1902 by Dr. E.A. Smith and R.S. Hodges. It shows a magnificent virgin longleaf pine forest once located about ten miles from Fairhope.  By Bill Finch To...

The falling of leaves on the Gulf Coast aren't always a sign of fall. It's just a sign that the best season of color -- leaves, flowers and fruits -- has come to the coast. In a place like this, where the seasons of growth and flowering spread through all of the year, it would be odd if all the leaves were to fall at once.

Spring planting should start long before last frost.

Q: Is there a variety of asparagus that will grow well here along the Gulf Coast? Bill Starling (Press-Register)Every time I've tried to grow asparagus, it produced an abundance of very thin, wispy stalks, covered in that fern-like leaf growth...

Mike Kittrell, Staff Photographer A satsuma is a very specific kind of tangerine (and one of the oldest) with a distinctive sweet and tangy taste, nearly void of seeds, wrapped in a skin that flicks off with the nick...