It’s that time of year again. The ground is frozen, the holiday decorations are up, and I’ve eaten enough turkey and stuffing to last me until next November. The garden is resting, which means that, inevitably, the gardener is restless. But we get to look back, see what went wrong, what went right, and what [...]
Read more →If your garden ambitions are larger than your garden budget, starting plants from seed is definitely the way to go. And if your budget still won’t allow for several dollars for one packet of seed, there are several sources to find quality seed at low prices. Here are a few inexpensive seed sources that I’ve [...]
Read more →A new blogging platform. It came with its share of glitches, including stupid Serendipity not allowing any of my former comments to come along with my posts, and I am sure I’m going to take a hit from the almighty Google (I guess I can say goodbye to my search traffic for a while…) but [...]
Read more →I’ve been reading Allan Armitage and Joe Lamp’l's takes on the state of gardening. In his post, Gardening is a Four-Letter Word, Armitage reflects on how often he hears that gardening is dead, that style matters more than substance, that t…
Read more →photo by gracie @ morguefileIt’s possibly the biggest obstacle to following your dreams of writing that novel, or submitting that article, or working on your dream of writing poetry: “I don’t have the time.”
“Maybe after I’m retired.”
“Maybe aft…
Read more →So, I’m working on the obligatory “Holiday Gifts for the Organic Gardener” article right now for my About.com site, and I also happened to get the latest issue of Horticulture in the mail over the weekend. Some of you have probably seen it. On pag…
Read more →I haven’t been very active on eBay. I just didn’t think of it much when I needed to buy something (I know, I know…where have I been the last five years or so?) Anyway, a while back, my husband checked a woodworking book out of the library that h…
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