This is the answer I got when I asked my garden girls what they wanted to grow in their little plots next year. They love tomatoes possibly even more than I do, so the tomatoes were no surprise. What did surprise me was the change in color palette. Last year, they went for hot, vibrant [...]
Read more →Somehow, my plans for the vegetable garden never feel quite real until I’ve narrowed down which tomatoes I’ll be growing. To say that they are the centerpiece of my garden would be an understatement; if woman could live on tomatoes alone, I think I’d be perfectly happy with that. But, even the perfect tomato can [...]
Read more →Kathy at Cold Climate Gardening wrote a wonderful post recently in which she reviewed three gardening books for kids. Her selections were wonderful—I ended up ordering one of them right away–but what really struck me was that we have the same philosophy of children and gardening. Kathy says: “I prefer to regard children as apprentice [...]
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