Seeds to Sow Indoors: Mid-April
Mid-April is the heart of the indoor sowing season. There are still many seeds that need only a few weeksContinue Reading
Category: Sowing Seeds
A Gardening Rhyme
There’s a very old rhyme variations of which have been circulating in gardening circles since at least the mid-19th century, probably muchContinue Reading
Damping Off Disease: Down But Not Out
It’s always such a shock! Your seedlings germinate, start to grow and everything seems to be going so well, thenContinue Reading
Seeds to Sow: Early April
Early April is pretty much the heart of the indoor seed-sowing season. Remembering that you want young, strong, healthy seedlings,Continue Reading
Seeds to sow indoors in Mid-March
The choice of seeds to sow indoors explodes in mid-March! This really is the time to start so many seeds… but notContinue Reading
Seeds to Sow: Early March
It is truly in March that the seed sowing season begins. Of course, I’ve seen many enthusiastic gardeners gushing overContinue Reading
How to Read a Seed Packet
Wouldn’t it be nice if some sort of international commission could force seed growers to all use the same symbolsContinue Reading
F1 hybrids are not GMOs!
I write about gardening every day and get very little negative feedback… yet every time I include the termContinue Reading
Grow Your Own Ferns… From Spores!
Ferns certainly are very odd plants with a unique life cycle. Unlike most other plants we know, they bear neitherContinue Reading
Are Last Year’s Seeds Still Good?
Most gardeners store their leftover garden seeds for another year… or two years. Or three. But how many years canContinue Reading