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 one place. I also added a few additional resources that I hope you find helpful. Don’t be shy — if you have any [...]
Read more →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 doesn’t come across as one of those bragging, “oh, I’m so awesome” kind of posts. I’m much better at making fun [...]
Read more →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 this is less important, and the specifics of what happened will, I’m sure, probably come out elsewhere. [...]
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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 me feel like the best gardener ever. (Delusions of self-grandeur are a symptom of long Michigan winters, [...]
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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 sign that Halloween has passed us by is the sight of dozens of carved, soggy, perhaps squirrel-chewed Jack O’ Lanterns sitting on the [...]
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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 viburnums, the top of the hay bale and pile of leaves the kids play in, and each and every petal of the [...]
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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. They’re easily the most vivid color going on in my garden right now. One more reason to love strawberries!
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