I read a post this morning on my friend Gina’s blog, and I started writing her a monumentally-long comment. And I decided that rather than take over her comment section, it would probably be......
Welcome, #SeedChat friends (and anyone else who is curious about getting started with sprouting!) I put this post together to hopefully help pull all of the information we covered on SeedChat into......
I told myself that I wouldn’t bother doing a yearly wrap-up post this year. But it was a big year, and big years are deserving of at least a little reflection. I’m hoping this... [[ This ...
Recently, a bit of a firestorm has arisen in the garden blogging world. It began as one thing, and, as details about that issue came out, led to a bigger, more serious issue. The event that led to......
It’s one thing to show my garden in July, when the tomatoes are going full force and the annuals are all blooming like mad, or even in April, when the slightest hint of color is enough to make....
It’s the day after Halloween. No sign of the Great Pumpkin yet again, and I’m doing my best to resist the 4 huge buckets of candy in the kitchen. Mmmm….Snickers…. The other......
We had our first frost last night. My morning walk around the garden was filled with both beauty and melancholy. Beauty, because the entire garden sparkled. Frost edged the serrated leaves of the... ...
I usually overlook how vibrant strawberry foliage is in fall. But I was taking a walk through the garden this morning, and noticed these leaves hanging over the side of the new strawberry bed.... [[ ...
The more I focus on growing as much of our own food as possible, the more I’m bothered by waste. The bread that stales before we can use it, the vegetable trimmings, that last bit of coffee in....
A couple of years ago, I wrote about the method I use for drying tomatoes — oven-drying. It’s a really simple method, and one that works for me because air-drying is impossible due to... ...
I’ll confess up front to being haphazard when it comes to pruning my own tomato plants. Some years, I don’t pinch out a single sucker, and others, I’m very diligent about it. In my....
It’s easy to see why tomatoes have so many fans: not only are they delicious, but they are also visually stunning, with a wide variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. But did you know that there....
One of the best things you can do to get your tomatoes off to a good start is to plant them correctly. Tomatoes are oddballs in that they like to be planted deeply — with not just their root......
The title of this sounds like one of those bad “why did the chicken cross the road?” jokes, but it’s a very common problem among tomato growers. It’s frustrating to wait for a...
The chill in the air has me looking at my tomato plants, and all of that green fruit hanging from them, and wondering if they’ll have enough time to ripen. Luckily, there is no frost in the... ...
You can buy heirloom tomato seeds just about anywhere now, but there are a few catalogs that always have a tremendous variety of heirlooms. Here are some of my favorites: Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.....
I was reading one of my favorite decorating blogs, Nesting Place, and saw that she’s one of the people hosting an event for the month of October called “31 Days of….” You pick...
So, if you’ve been following my noisy self on Twitter, you’ve probably noticed that there was quite a lot going on last week. A few (truly awesome) garden writers and bloggers, a few... [...
[Note: Not a gardening post, darlings. Please feel free to skip this one. This is just something I needed to write, and this seems like the best place to do it.] I hate September 25th. It’s... ...
I reached a point last week where I just got tired of looking at tomato plants, tired of pruning, harvesting, and battling septoria — just kind of over tomatoes this year. I left my favorite......
When we’re teenagers, we need labels. We need an easy way to self-identify, to compartmentalize and sort ourselves and others. This is part of our emotional growth. We figure out who we are,......
I’ve harvested a few yummy ‘Brandywine’ tomatoes this season, but this guy is the biggest by far. That’s a dinner plate it’s sitting on. The top has some cracks, and it....
July’s almost over, and, to be honest, I think I’ll throw a party when I flip the calendar to August. July was hot, humid, and tiring. For me, that is. The garden seemed to LOVE July. In....
By now, most of you have undoubtedly heard the story of Julie Bass, the Michigan gardener who has been charged with a misdemeanor for planting a front yard veggie garden. I wrote about it for... [[ T...
As I’ve mentioned before, the Jackmanii clematis growing on the south wall of my house is one of the few plants we inherited from my home’s former owner. From speaking with her, it was......
I do a lot of container gardening, mostly because I’m trying to get the most out of our space for growing vegetables. This means growing in pots and tubs on the front porch, and growing herbs,....
Ridiculously cute, aren’t they? I go back and forth about which seedling is cuter: borage or nasturtium. It’s a tough call. I grow borage every year, for a couple of reasons. Mostly, out....
I was raised a good Polish girl. Even though, technically, I’m a good Polish/Irish/German girl, it was the Polish aspect of my heritage that was most celebrated in our family. I grew up eating....
My husband bought this 1975 copy of Logsdon’s Successful Berry Growing. I am completely in love with the cover. It reminds me of one of my grandma’s aprons. In a good way. [[ This is a co...
Margaret Roach’s latest book, And I Shall Have Some Peace There: Trading in the Fast Lane for My Own Dirt Road, takes us along for the ride as Roach learns what it means to live life on her own...
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