A Year in Vegetable Gardening: Harvesting Memories and Planting Dreams
Today is the perfect time for fruit and vegetable gardeners to reflect on the past year and look ahead to the next growing season. The journey of nurturing plants from …
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“Heirloom” Garden Planning Tools: From Pen and Paper to Companion Planting
Planning a garden can be a real adventure! Picture this: some veggies like their personal space, while others are quite the social butterflies in your garden. And don't even get …
Are French Raspberries Really All That?
Oh gosh, I picked today's story, "Filching Fruit in France" for the chuckle. Like all of Mike McGrath's submissions, this one is a doozy of a story that you're not …
The Gardening Gifts Are What She Wanted
I love getting gardening gifts for Christmas. If I think back, my favorites have been my hori-hori knife, and any one of my hydroponic gardens. I certainly get a new …
The Joy of Indeterminate Cherry Tomatoes
Today's story reminds me of one cherry-tomato-heavy Summer: the indeterminate cherry tomatoes just wouldn't die.
I had never seen anything like it. The cherry tomatoes were practically begging to be picked, …
Human Pollinators and Their Handy Toothbrushes
I remember the day I learned how to be a human pollinator and pollinate flowers with a toothbrush. It was a hot, June day and I was eager to learn …
Understanding the Life Cycle of a Tree
Trees are honestly a force of nature. Sometimes, I find it so hard to fathom how these giant beings can sprout from a teeny, tiny seed. But here they are, …
Weeding the Garden Can Be Meditative
I love a funny story like everyone else, but so many of the stories submitted to us are about someone moving through trauma or grief with their garden by their …
Not Your Typical Garden Story
It's hard not to think about life and death in the garden because you're witnessing it over and over throughout the growing season. My garden story is that each year …
Gardening with Kids is a Blessing
I like to think that I've done my job as a gardener to at least inspire curiosity in my daughter about gardening. Gardening with kids isn't always pretty, but it's …
