Let’s Get Vertical Gardening »
What’s better than a living piece of art? With vertical gardening that’s exactly what you’re getting and as a bonus, you get to help out the environment. The great thing is that a vertical garden can be made out of almost anything. Just search vertical gardening on Pinterest and you will be led through a world of [Read More...]
Lettuce in Winter: Part 1 »
Starting lettuce in winter was successful for us. We transplanted it into a raised bed inside our unheated greenhouse. We covered the raised bed in a low tunnel as well, we then snaked a heating cable through the bed and set out a heat lamp that turned on when it got close to the freezing [Read More...]
Signs of Spring »
A few months ago I stopped at the local lumber yard in search of leftovers in the garden department. They had an abundance of Spring flowering bulbs marked down to almost nothing. Of course I grabbed them up, then waited for a warm day to get them planted. In the middle of December that warm [Read More...]
DNA Is Cheap: Monsanto and the Discomfort of Bioengineering »
I don’t think there are too many people who would argue against the fact that science is cool. Because, well, science is cool. But for every wonderful thing scientific and technological advances have given us (you know, like, prosthetic limbs and pacemakers) science and technology have also teamed up to splash around in gene pools [Read More...]
Garden Planning Day – 2013 »
Thomas Jefferson loved gardening. He kept detailed records, for many years, of his garden at Monticello. In fact, you can even purchase a copy of his “Garden Book“. I read it once, years ago, and felt so inspired that I started keeping my own garden book. It was fun to do, but as with so [Read More...]
For Your Consideration: Valentine’s Day Edition »
So, it’s Valentine’s Day. It’s the lover of all things love related’s favorite day. And it’s the day that most flower shops love and dread. Love for the business and dread for the business. Hundreds of thousands of husbands, boyfriends, would be boyfriends, friends or creepy stalker types the world over flock to their local [Read More...]
A Stash of Seeds »
I received an email from a member of our CSA recently and the subject was “A Stash of Seeds”. Curious, I clicked the message to read more. A while back, her neighbor had found a couple of old cans in his garage with dried ears of corn in one and an assortment of bean seeds [Read More...]
Annuals From Years Ago »
For centuries, gardeners have grown brightly hued annuals from seed, since seed is reliable, easy to transport, and relatively inexpensive. These plants provide season-long color and usually a wonderful fragrance. These plants can be used in masses or as fillers in a flower border as well as in containers. Each of the following annuals have [Read More...]
In the cold of winter… »
In the words of the late Carla Emery, “Seed companies are embarrassingly generous with their catalogs.” If you are new, or even fairly new to gardening, simply do an internet search for “free garden seed catalogs.” You will quickly find abundant listings of great companies eager to send you a catalog and your mailbox will [Read More...]
This Hegemony Tastes Like Corporate Lobbying: Heirloom Seeds and Genetically-Modified Seeds »
So for a little while now I’ve been trying to do a write-up on the differences between heirloom seeds and genetically-modified seeds. And darn it, if the thing wasn’t becoming something way too much like an exposé. I mean, how could it not? Each side positions itself as Gandhi and the other as something apocalyptic… [Read More...]