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Five Things to Look at When Garden Shopping
As a gardening addict enthusiast, it can be difficult at times to not just gloss over when looking through the latest seed catalog or online site. Here are a few tips to help you keep your grip and...
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The How, Where, Why and What-If of Saving Hybrid Seeds
Many gardeners will tell you that you can’t save seeds from hybrid veggies. That’s simply not true. What they should say is that if you do save such seed, you won’t get the same veggie from them, but...
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Biennial Volunteers
A garden volunteer is any plant, other than a weed, that comes up in your garden where you didn’t plant it. This is quite common for gardeners that make their own compost; many’s the tomato plant or...
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Simplifying the Seed Stash
Years ago it would be in February that the seed catalogs would begin to show up, now it seems to be earlier each year. And so it begins. It’s only mid-November and already there are a half dozen...
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On Saving Hybrid Seeds
The haul. Just in case you are one of the many gardeners understandably confused about the difference between a hybrid seed and a GMO seed, here is the difference: A hybrid seed is one taken from a...
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How to Turn a Hybrid into an Open Pollinated Type
Lots of seeds to play with. After recently purchasing a hybrid melon thinking it was an heirloom, we proceeded to go about saving the seeds anyway. You can read more about How to Save Seeds here. One...
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8 Reasons to Plant from Seed
Here they come. Growing plants from seed is not a difficult thing to do. To start seeds indoors all you need are containers of your choice, some seed starting mix, a light source, warmth and water;...
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Perennial Parsnips Part 2
This experiment is already over a year in the making, having first planted the seeds in the spring of 2013. Last April we looked at the beginnings of it, and what the plan was. Basically, it is an...
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(Please Don’t) Eat (This) Tomato
It is estimated that men hear as little as two words for every five a woman speaks. Some women might suggest it is actually less than that. And I know some men who might say “What? Did you say...
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6 Things to Know About Saving Seeds
Saving seeds is a great way to have some food independence. There are a few things to keep in mind to make you more successful: 1. Which seeds to save. Every gardener wants next season’s harvest to be...
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6 + 6 + 2 Things to Know About Saving Seeds
Hand Finished Seed Packets There’s a lot of money in the seed business. My husband says I have played a major part in that area. In the long run though, I prefer to save money where I can by saving...
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Which Pumpkin is Right for You?
Happy October! A pumpkin is a pumpkin, right? Well yes, and no. That is, some pumpkins lend themselves better for decorating, and others for pies. So, which is which? The best way to tell that is...
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How to Store Seeds
1. Seeds need air. We recommend storing seeds in a paper envelope. It needn’t be fancy, folded newspaper will do, or you can repurpose junk mail envelopes. But seeds need the air circulation paper...
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A Thousand Words
Unlike Mike the Gardener’s seed packet pictured in the middle above, not all companies adorn their envelopes with a photo of the plant you will grow. When I was very new to gardening I found myself...
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What to Do in the Garden – January
Winter seems to drag on forever; then before you know it, it’s Spring. Getting prepared is a fun thing to do in January. By now you probably have at least a few calendars for the new year. This month...
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11 Hints for Growing Strawberries
Growing strawberries is easy to do. Here are a few tips to make you even more successful. Start strawberry plants by seed by barely covering the seeds with a wee bit of potting soil. Keep them moist...
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12 Random Things to Know About Saving Seeds
Let cucumbers get over ripe, even turn yellow, before saving the seeds. Know that veggies can only cross with their same species. So a zucchini might cross with a pumpkin, both are C. pepo, but not...
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The Wonderful Kikuza Squash
This is a fun squash we grew a few years back and really enjoyed it. The Wee Babe It is a pumpkin originally from Japan, but we were able to get seeds from Baker Creek. The fruit are only a few pounds...
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Growing Our Gardens Together
Over the course of the upcoming growing season I will be writing about my experiences with the seeds shown above. The seeds were provided for me to try for free so that I can let you know about them....
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10 Tips for Changes in the 2020 Garden
Will things be any different this year, what with Covid-19? They already are. The first thing I noticed was emails from seed companies saying their shipments might be late, and they could possibly get...
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