Other Great Lessons From the Heart of Nature
In Wisdom Gleaned from Nature, I shared with you some of my observations and understanding of the environment in whichContinue Reading
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The Forbidden Fruit Wasn’t Always an Apple!
What would our ancestors say if they saw us today, hunched over our seed catalogs, dreaming of our future gardenContinue Reading
Worms In My Houseplant
Question I’ve had a Norfolk pine for 4 years. I noticed this morning that it was infested with worms. TheyContinue Reading
A Visit To Bogotá’s Botanical Gardens
As observant readers will have noticed, I love plants and I love botanical gardens. When I travel, I invariably tryContinue Reading
Towards Food Self-sufficiency… Thanks To Seedlings (continued)
Last week, we looked at the first steps of indoor vegetable sowing, placing our seed trays covered with a domeContinue Reading
Planning Your Vegetable Garden For Greater Biodiversity
In The Laidback Vegetable Garden, For Greater Biodiversity, we saw how a little carelessness can encourage the presence of variousContinue Reading
Scototropism, ever heard of it? Well, neither has Google!
A few months ago, I wrote a detailed article on philodendrons and their growing needs. And in one of myContinue Reading
Wisdom Gleaned from Nature
In When Old Age Rhymes With Laidbackness, but Above All With Intelligence, I brought up the serious subject of lossContinue Reading
Styrofoam As A Drainage Layer: Useful Or Dangerous?
Stéphanie wrote to me a few weeks ago to ask whether it was dangerous to put Styrofoam in the bottomContinue Reading
BaNQ’s Gardening Book Of The Month: February 2025
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ)’s monthly gardening e-book suggestion. Murder Most Florid Inside the Mind of a ForensicContinue Reading