The Making of Mrs. Know It All
I am what you call a city girl growing up just 10 minutes from Downtown Pittsburgh in a borough called Swissvale. My Grandma Kaschauer had lived there since 1906 and …
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Beets Companion Plants for the Garden
Beets are the best! Most vegetables are easy to love, but beets have a lot going for them. They're an easy-to-grow, fast-developing crop that belongs to the Chenopodiaceae family alongside Swiss …
The Best Vegetables to Plant Together for an Unbelievable Harvest
Some things are meant to be together: wine and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, Simon and Garfunkel, and the three sisters. The three sisters, otherwise known as corn, beans, and …
“Where Have All the Fireflies Gone?”
Those of us who have achieved a certain age remember Summer and Fall in ways that no longer exist:
Collecting empty soda (pop) bottles to take back to the store for …
Growing Zones for Beets
Beets are cool-season vegetables that are relatively tolerant to various growing conditions. They can be grown in a wide range of USDA Plant Hardiness Zones, from zones 2 to 10. …
Colorful Garden Art On Your Plate
It almost seems redundant to talk about colorful garden art. Gardens are some of the most colorful places around many homes. And in botanical gardens far and wide, there's seemingly …
So Much and So Many
Summertime has always meant sun, dirt, and mud to me. It means longer days. Most of all, Summertime means abundance. …
3 Lettuce Cup Recipes
Lettuce gets a bad rap sometimes. Rabbit food. Mostly water. Flavorless. OK, sometimes that’s true. But also true: there are more delicious varieties of lettuce available than you can shake …
The Love of Dirt
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, …
Atlas, the Kingsnake, and Contemporary Landscaping
I didn't start out to re-landscape the yard. I was just frustrated by our slow—and expensive—curbside trash pick-up. But then came drought, and global warming, and the extinction crisis, to …
