Growing in the Gravel
Can I admit something to you? I love free stuff. I always have. In fact, I love it so much that when I was young and limited in my means,...
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When All Else Fails, Plant a Zinnia
We’ve turned the corner; summer is half-over and this year’s garden knows it. The hopes and plans that were born last winter and spring...
Getting to the Root of the Matter
They say a ‘watched’ pot takes longer to boil and I guess the same could be said of a watched seedling. Many a May I have found myself...
Oh Kale Yeah
Until you’ve eaten Kale fresh from your garden, you may be wondering what all the fuss about this green roughage is. Kale salad, chips,...
Sowing Seeds
A seed. A hope. A promise. That small kernel has big potential. Of course, it’s much easier to drive up to the store and buy a big,...
Grow in the Dark
Visiting long lost cousins in Michigan this past summer, I was given little hairy seedpods from the homeplace my mom romped around as a...
Saving Heirlooms
It's harvest time! And if you've had a good crop of tomatoes this year, like I did from a plant someone gave me last spring, you're gonna...
Grateful Deadheading
As the summer sun fades, so do many of our garden flowers. If you haven’t already been cutting or pinching back the spent flowers in your...
Sunny Flowers
Leaving the Rocky Mountains on a cross-country drive, I wasn’t looking forward to the slog across mid-America. With the flat, straight...
Benefit of Soaking Seeds
Life isn’t always what it seems. Is it? Sometimes it’s rough and hard. Forgotten. Or lost in the mundane. When you look at a sunflower...
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