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seeds and starts
If you’re local (or not), check out this great deal from Urban Farm Seeds for this weekend only!
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native plants
I’ve been reading more about native plants and the dangers of invasive species lately. I’m realizing how little I know about my home’s (central Indiana, where I’ve lived for all…
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Tomatoes!
Our garden, despite the drought, is really coming into full swing these days. With Maeve’s arrival, we were a little late getting things planted, which is why we’re just now…
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revised hardiness zone maps
For the first time in over twenty years, the USDA has revised the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map that reflects that average annual lowest temperature across the country, enabling gardeners…
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seed catalog time!
Like most gardeners, the end of January brings another Christmas for me: the arrival of the seed catalogs. I have my favorites: Baker Creek, Pinetree, Seed Savers. But I don’t…
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seed catalog time!
Like most gardeners, the end of January brings another Christmas for me: the arrival of the seed catalogs. I have my favorites: Baker Creek, Pinetree, Seed Savers. But I don’t…
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Fall garden clean-up
Our garden is seriously winding down at home. There are still lots of tomato plants with green tomatoes longing for warmer days to ripen up, but everything else is looking…
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Fall garden clean-up
Our garden is seriously winding down at home. There are still lots of tomato plants with green tomatoes longing for warmer days to ripen up, but everything else is looking…
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Beginner’s Crops
Are you a new gardener? If so, here’s a great article about the best crops to start off with for beginner gardeners. I tell Grant, my husband, that I could…
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Local garden blog
The head of Westfield’s Plant a Row program, Robert Staley, has a wonderful garden blog chronicling his family’s efforts at growing more of their own. Be sure to bookmark it…