Growing Leeks
Leeks are in the allium family along with onions, garlic, chives and shallots. They are a superfood prized for their sweet mild flavor. They resemble large scallions with thick white stalks. The...
View ArticleCreating a School Garden Checklist
Starting a new school garden is one of the most rewarding projects a gardener can undertake, but like everything else in life there's a right way and wrong way to do it. Dorothy Mullen has done a lot...
View ArticleThe Four Season Farm Gardener's Cookbook
For many Mainers, April is affectionately known as mud season. For me, it's when I met Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman for the first time at their Four Season Farm in Harborside, Maine. I have two...
View ArticleA Brief History of School Gardens
In 1909, Ventura, California schoolteacher Zilda M. Rogers wrote to the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of California, Berkeley, then the flagship agricultural campus for California’s...
View ArticleRon Finley: Guerilla Gardening in South Central LA
Artist and designer Ron Finley couldn’t help but notice what was going on in his backyard. “South Central Los Angeles,” he quips, “home of the drive-thru and the drive-by.” And it's the drive-thru...
View ArticleAs you sow, so shall you thin
Early spring radishes are wonderfully flavorful without being too eye watering hot. Ours have been ready to eat for a couple of weeks already and wow, the rewards of gardening.Radishes are...
View ArticleTo till or not to till? That is actually NOT the question.
Gardeners tend to be a pretty harmonious "peas and love" bunch of people. Tilling is one of the few topics that can stir a heated debate with most people falling into two opposing factions: till and...
View ArticleHow to Start Your Own Garden For Almost Free
(The trellises in the photo above are bed frames, railings, and other items collected from the side of the road. Other people's trash is your free garden!)Yes, the economy is in bad shape, I know....
View Article10 Kitchen Gardens to Visit Before You Die
One thing that gardeners understand better than most people is that compost happens. And what's true for our plants is also true for us. We're all part of the big cycle of life, death, decay and...
View Article5 Ways of Supporting Your Tomato Plants
Tomatoes are happy to grow every which way, rightside up, upside down, left and right. So why bother to put complicated and potentially expensive support structures in place to prop them up? To...
View ArticlePlanting Asparagus from Crowns
Planting an asparagus bed may well be the smartest thing you do this year, right up there with regular flossing and wearing sunscreen. Think about it: how many things can you plant in your vegetable...
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