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Finding Family In a Garden
It's Spring as I write this and we've already harvested some early greens and a few root vegetables like radishes. Daffodils, tulips, and hellebore brought some much-needed color to the …
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Faith and Patience
I would hate to add up how many hours a gardener spends waiting for something to happen. But then, there’s a reward of some sort at the end of the …
I Get By with a Little Help …
Wherever I have lived, my green-thumbed neighbors grew gardens that I envied for their beauty and abundance. Me, my name is Brown—and, alas, my gardening thumb matches. …
Vegetable Gardening for Dummies: The Tiller
At times when I'm in the garden, I feel like I could be the star of any story about vegetable gardening for dummies. Most of the time I know what …
Living with Chickweed
The other day I saw a research report from some agricultural scientist who'd decided that chickweed—that disgusting little kissing cousin of kudzu—was the ideal winter cover crop for soybean farmers. …
Garden Time
Mud season, the Harvest Moon, or when the frost is on the pumpkin. We're all familiar with such time measurements: the kind far removed from calculated accuracy. Not the precise, …
Relax and Name Frogs
The first of February, my blood perks up like a coffeepot brewing because, down here in Texas, February 14th is Tater Time. The garden to me is a place to …
Breaking Ground
Warm day. Dry soil. Early spring. It's groundbreaking day in the garden. I go out to negotiate with ol' Dobbin, my middle-aged rototiller. She's getting a bit stiff in the …
Why Are My Pea Plants Turning Yellow?
Why are my pea plants turning yellow? Is it something I need to worry about? Are my plants done for? The concern is understandable. After all, yellowing plant leaves could …
Companion Plants for Sunflowers
Take advantage of organic teamwork in your garden to deter garden pests, as well as weeds. Companion planting is a great way help plants protect each other.
For example, squash, peas, …
