Posts under ‘Seeds’

While traveling recently, I wandered into a store that sells almost exclusively all things Italian. From homemade pasta to gelato to wine to incredible cheeses, it’s a little bit of Italy without the hefty plane ticket. I have always thought of this particular place as a purveyor of the makings of a feast, but have [...]

Although Valentine’s Day has come and gone, it seems appropriate to tell you about a little indoor plant experiment I have going on right now. At Christmas, my former roommate Susan, who has managed to locate the world’s greatest gardening gifts ever since I started this blog, sent me a terrific gift that I will [...]

“Have you figured out what you’re planting yet?” asked Betsy’s husband during dinner tonight. We had escaped into the Old Capitol Brew Works for the only thing that, tonight, would really take the edge off the weather: a burger, fries and a beer. “No,” I sputtered. “I haven’t even really thought about it.” I talk [...]

On one day last week, I came home and had the 2008 Seed Savers Catalog waiting in the mail. I know it’s a long time until actual planting season, but the catalog itself is just a little glimmer of hope. A glimmer of hope I needed to keep in front of me, because the very [...]

I keep meaning to get up to Decorah—a field trip to Seed Savers’ Heritage Farm has been on my list of things to do since I started gardening, and here has gone another season, and I never made it up there. Hmm. I sense the start of a 2008 Resolutions list. So it was with [...]

The rabbits have committed many sins this summer. Many, many sins. And I’m not talking about the two that chase each other around the yard with gleams in their eyes. Among the sins committed includes murder. A murder of peas. All of them. I planted little pea seeds, I implemented a rudimentary trellising system (granted, [...]

I’m going to see the four-and-a-half-year-old tomorrow, and among the things I do not plan to share with her is the fact that I managed to kill the tube of space-age tomato seedlings that she and I started together. A few days ago, I had the sinking realization that I hadn’t checked on the little [...]

There is a noxious weed that lives in my garden, popping up with its tree-like leaves and thick stem, and, worst of all, its brutally-deep root system. So, while Steve’s Mom was visiting for his graduation and for Mother’s Day, we did what any self-respecting pair of women would do. We pulled weeds. “See?” I [...]

In March, I first got wind of Roll’n’Grow, an odd product that promised too-good-to-be-true gardening results. I asked for feedback. Workable? Not workable? What’s the scoop? Garden Rant asked a similar question recently. To my delight, there were commenters who provided anecdotal feedback on their Roll’n’Grow experiences, none of which was good. But to my [...]

Last year, I did not grow nearly enough parsley. What parsley we did grow came up sparsely (Parsley, sparsely. It feels like an Ogden Nash poem…), and it never felt as abundant as, well, grabbing a bunch at the store. You know those store bunches: fat and happy and usually more of the flat-leaf variety [...]