Why Climate Matters to the Home Gardener

This post was most recently updated on December 14th, 2021 If you are starting your garden for the season, found yourself at the end of the season with time until your first frost, or have a spare patch of ground, there are some super quick growing vegetables that you can use to fill the space…

  Watching a seed cotyledon (sprout) pop through the soil is heaven on earth. I am especially interested in flower and tree seeds, but Rose and I collect a few seeds from our small vegetable garden, as well. We are indebted to seed savants. The Sower, Jean-Francois Millet “He who plants and he who waters…

Plant Journaling: Keeping your plant alive one note at a time. Your plant friends will swoon at your organization skills. A plant journal is a compiled group of notes and pictures/drawings created by you. Why keep a Plant Journal? Humans are not perfect *even gardeners* we forget things and if you have as many plants…

This past week while visiting the little town of Kersey, PA as part of a volunteer ministry outreach, a trip to the local super Wal-Mart highlighted an annual conundrum – what to do with all those many pumpkins between one holiday and the next.  Not that the end of November is likely to see a…

This is a hard and fast lesson so strap in! Have a pair of sharp shears. I like Fiskars products and their bypass pruner is expensive but worth it. Your cuttings can be composted so get your bucket and find a good place to dump some clippings. If you don’t have a compost bin, just…

Annuals by mail – it’s not for the faint of heart Why mail order annuals? I  get surprised looks when asked – usually during Garden Walk – about interesting plants I have that came in that way. But for years, though I’ve never attempted seeds (and don’t plan to), I’ve always been open to looking…