Ever looked at those curly little tendrils on your cucumber plants and thought, “What’s the big dill?” (Sorry, couldn’t resist that one!) Those spiral-shaped plant parts aren’t just nature’s version …
So there you are, scissors in hand, ready to snip some fragrant basil for your pasta sauce. You grab a leaf, take an anticipatory nibble, and–wait a minute–is that… licorice? …
Let's be honest – we've all been there. One day your tomato plants are the picture of health, and the next they're doing a convincing impression of plant zombies with …
Every time I use fresh herbs in a recipe, I say out loud (sometimes to no one in particular), “It’s the fresh herbs that make this dish!” There’s no substitution. …
Plants are people too, you know! I mean, maybe not exactly. I've never heard one talk, though maybe their mouths are just so tiny we can't hear them. What I …
“I’m just saying, I don’t believe in the almanac. You’re saying they plan the dates in the almanac based on the planets. The planets are in space; they're not down …
“In the year 2000, do you think we’ll still be alive?” Fourteen-year-old me was chatting with my girlfriends in 1972 about a date so far in the future it seemed …
We moved north where the colder climate must have been jarring to the constitution of my young parents who grew up in the sunny climate of the sweltering South where …
We put in a strawberry patch this year. Nothing huge, you understand: maybe 4 feet by 20, a nice strip along the fence on the upper side of the barn. …
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