g March 21, 20085 Comments germination testing of seeds GERMINATION TESTING of leftover seeds would make a good science project for grade-school kids, and it can delight and inform big people, too. If you..
s March 21, 20081 Comment smaller is better (in cabbages) PREDICTION: More people would actually grow, and eat, cabbage if it weren’t for those bowling-ball-sized heads of up to 8 pounds that we all think..
w March 21, 200811 Comments why plant peas you have to stake? IT WOULDN’T BE a vegetable garden without edible-pod peas, the closest thing to dessert that you can eat right in the garden. But why bother..
h March 21, 200812 Comments hotp(l)ants: the brightest spring poppy IT’S ALWAYS NICE to feel ahead of the curve. For probably fifteen years, I have been growing a springtime ephemeral (simply meaning it disappears back..
a March 18, 200813 Comments a new cycle, a new season ‘I LAY NO CLAIM either to literal ability, or to botanical knowledge, or even to the best practical methods of cultivation,” a woman of great..