Gardening adventures
Or maybe I should just call them gardening misadventures. I planted two kinds of cucumber seeds under a big bamboo teepee: some straight 8’s and some pickling cukes. I planted […]
Category Archives: Ecology
Three Sisters Begins
3 Sisters, a companion planting concept used by Native Americans for centuries, is a new concept to me and something I wanted to try. The oldest sister, corn, gets planted […]
Let the gardening games (finally) begin!
Weather people say it was the coldest, wettest spring in this area since the 1960’s. I just know it was bad for a gardener who wants to get started early, […]
The Great Bread Bowl Story
That is a picture of a bread bowl. The biggest bread bowl I’ve ever seen. Here’s the Great Bread Bowl story. My son and now daughter in law were married […]
The beginning of the garden
I had a guy till up a bigger area cos our garden is growing. It doesn’t have anywhere to go more than this, so we will make good use of […]
The life of our seeds….and us
Here’s quick post from my favorite soap box issue: the owning of seeds and the destruction of our freedom to have and grow our own seeds. Below is a link […]
Behold the Magic of the Earth
There’s a piece of cross stitch I did many years ago, and it hangs in my kitchen. I think of the magic of the earth often, but was especially reminded […]
Three Sisters
I’ve read a lot about a planting arrangement that’s centuries old and began with Native Americans. This is called Three Sisters, and involves planting corn, beans and squash together. For […]
Sharing heirloom seeds
Heirloom seeds will survive if more people plant them, and talking about them with other gardeners and sharing them is the way to get more people to plant them. I’ve […]
Saint Francis and Saint John
Years ago I got a St. John’s wort plant, just cos it was something else interesting to have growing. It took a long time to spread out, but it covers […]
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