I hope that you have had a wonderful Labor Day Weekend. As we have begun our new school year, I have had a distinct lack of time for gardening. My son, however, keeps hounding me to get to the garden. He has been growing one of our community garden beds and his produce is really… Read More Garden Update 9/4/18
This harvest includes the first tomato of the season! For northern gardeners who don’t have greenhouses, this is a great milestone! Also the first red hot pepper of the season. Pretty cool stuff. Both of these warmer weather crops were harvested at the community garden, rather than the home garden though. It gets so much… Read More Garden Update 7/30/18
It is fall again and the basil has gone to seed. Though I am down for my surgery recovery, I can sit in one spot and separate basil seeds from the chaff. I am spending time today saving basil seeds and cilantro seeds. Easy to do…I have a previous article on this here. One thing… Read More Seed Saving and Cross Pollination
Did you know how easy it is to save basil seeds? They are tiny, but can be easily saved so you don’t have to keep buying new seed packets every spring. At the end of the growing season, let the plants flower (go to seed) instead of keeping the flowers pinched off. Then let the… Read More Saving Basil Seeds
Guess what? I found a cool use for all those baby food jars I saved just in case. SEE? I knew I would end up using them somehow. Yeah, I know, that’s probably what the hoarders say about everything they have. But I honestly did put these to good use. I read somewhere a while… Read More Seed Storage