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Growing Your Veggie Starts
Cold frames, sun boxes, and hot beds are relatively inexpensive, simple structures for providing a favorable environment for growing cool-weather crops in the very early spring, the fall, and even...
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The Rains Came and the Seeds Germinated!
Hiking through two different local areas this past weekend, I’ve observed frightening arrays of young, but obviously fast growing plants of various species, by far the majority of them not native....
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Seeds for Spring Planting
With seed catalogs arriving in the mail, it is not too early to start planning for spring plantings. The advantages of beginning plantings with seeds rather than plants from a garden center are...
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Looking for heirloom tomatoes? Grafting them can produce a better plant.
Grafting tomatoes is done for the same reasons that desirable apple varieties are grafted to a different rootstock: The result can be a disease resistant plant that produces tasty, old fashioned...
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The Basics of Vegetable Gardening in Containers
Yes, you can grow veggies in small places, on patios, on terraces, even on balconies in containers. There are multiple reasons to do so, but I see it as a convenience. One can place a container almost...
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Nature’s Ingenuity
Basic Botany is a useful Tool for any Gardener by Glenn Palmer To me one of the important rewards of gardening has been gaining an appreciation for nature’s ingenuity, an understanding of the...
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Cold Frames, Row Covers and Cool Season Vegetables
As the evenings cool and the chance of frost increases, having vegetables growing in cold frames or under row covers will prolong their productivity. A cold frame is essentially a bottomless box made...
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Hints for Kitchen Gardening in an Erratic Spring
Given our on again – off again weather patterns recently here are a few tips on how you might get your early vegetables to the table nearly on schedule: First, use early varieties if they’re available....
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Kids Post: Planning a Kid-Friendly Garden
One of the most exciting parts of gardening is choosing what to grow. Most kids have limited tastes, so having some input is a good way to expand their palates. Seed catalogs provide great pictures and...
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Starting Seeds Indoors
The gorgeous pictures in the seed catalogs have us itching to start gardening but it is still winter outdoors. One project you can do now is start seeds indoors for your summer garden. While some...
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