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Growing Chives from Seeds or Starts
You can grow chives from seeds, starts, or divisions (splits). If you have a fellow gardener with an ever-expanding chive patch, you could offer to help divide the plants and …
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Types of Chives
Common chives and Garlic chives are what you are most likely to find growing in the U.S. Siberian chives are rarer, but sometimes available from specialty seed companies or at …
Planting Gooseberry Bushes in the Ground
Gooseberries will grow happily in partial shade; in fact, they prefer a cool, moist spot to a blazing hot spot. The gooseberry is the perfect candidate to reside in a …
A Small Kitchen Garden Vegetable List
I’ve always felt that one of the joys of a garden is that moment when you walk outside and get some fresh herbs to cook with or when you see …
Starting with the Right Soil for Your Thyme Plants
Due to its Mediterranean origins, thyme thrives on dry, sandy—even rocky—soil. Many gardeners believe thyme actually benefits from poor soil and a lack of water. For this reason, thyme makes …
10 Tips for Harvesting Herbs to Eat
I love harvesting herbs. I love the aromas that slowly drift through the air as I pinch off a sprig of sweet basil or earthy sage. And nothing fills the …
Fresh Sautéed Corn
What’s the first thing you do whenever you have a fresh harvest of corn? If your answer isn’t “I set some aside to make corn on the cob immediately,” then …
Parsley-Watercress Soup
Is it just me or is homemade soup intensely comforting? Some of my earliest childhood memories were of me tiptoeing to get a look over the kitchen counter as my …
Emily’s Garden
A pot of chives—that’s how it all started. I was well into the fourth year of homeschooling our five children here in New Hampshire, often doing our lessons outside sitting …
Life-Changing Magic
Who wouldn’t want a little life-changing magic? That is probably why the catchily titled The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo spent over nine months on the “New York …
