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Clematis Seed Head, in Green Phase

In a few weeks, as these dry, they will look feathery rather than compact.… more →

Square-foot gardening at greatstems.com — 3 comments

Ren wrote 4 months ago: Meredith over at Great Stems has put together an excellent series of posts about vegetable families, … more →

Tags: Fruits, Vegetables, Plants, Real Food, Austin, Organic Gardening, Great Stems, vegetable families, square foot gardening

growing in a confined space and 'companion planting' — 2 comments

Maria wrote 5 months ago: The small amount that had started out on my window sil, is now filling up the small area in my garde … more →

Tags: Growing Outdoors, In the Garden, Tomato, nasturtiums, Marigold, whitefly, Parsley, Garden

BUZZ ON: Attracting Beneficial Insects to Your Garden — 1 comment

pdforsyth wrote 6 months ago: This article appeared in the June/July 2009 issue of GRID, Philadelphia’s new magazine about urban s … more →

Tags: Food Growing Techniques, GRID articles, beneficial insects, Ecology, Garden Pests, hedgerow, interplanting, Organic Gardening, pest control

Crunch time in my garden

cindyscottday wrote 7 months ago: The irony of writing a blog about gardening is that when there is the most activity going on in the … more →

Tags: broccoli, Carrots, cutworms, Peas, Planting Seeds, radishes, rain, Seedlings, transplanting seedlings to garden

Companion plants — 12 comments

Adam Pasco wrote 7 months ago: Is it only the more experienced who can really be successful organic gardeners? Well, it’s cer … more →

Tags: Plants, aphids, Organic Gardening, Poached egg plant, Limnanthes douglasii, chives, allium schoenoprasum, tagetes

Crazy about flats — 4 comments

cindyscottday wrote 8 months ago: Today is the third of three straight days of rain. As a gardener, I find I’m suddenly grateful … more →

Tags: sowing seed flats, Planting Seeds, spinach, Peas, Lettuce, Tomatoes, spearmint, oregano, transplanting seedlings to garden

Going into Town (with chicken poo on my shoes)

mrsllloyd wrote 9 months ago: Proving remarkably hardy, some of the starts survived my neglect and perked up with overnight water … more →

Tags: Garden, Chickens, Exercise

Sowing the first seeds — 3 comments

cindyscottday wrote 9 months ago: Yesterday (Saturday) I planted the first seeds into my garden — spinach seeds, which I’v … more →

Tags: garden preparation, soil pH, Planting Seeds, spinach, Peas, Lettuce, Tomatoes, radishes, Carrots

Sprouting Seedlings — 2 comments

cindyscottday wrote 9 months ago: Over the past weekend I sowed several flats of snow peas. I used larger 2.5-inch biodegradable pots … more →

Tags: garden preparation, soil pH, sowing seed flats, Seeds, Flats, marigolds, aluminum sulfate

More notes on Companion Planting

Admin wrote 10 months ago: CHRYSANTHEMUMS: C. coccineum kills root nematodes. (the bad ones) It’s flowers along with thos … more →

Tags: Companion planting

Yarrow, Wondrous Yarrow — 5 comments

Joe Linton wrote 1 year ago: Yarrow Flowers Folks at LA Eco-Village tease me for my infatuation with yarrow… a wonderful pl … more →

Tags: gardening, Herbs, Yarrow, Medicinal plant

COMPANION PLANTING — 6 comments

Admin wrote 1 year ago: from http://www.ghorganics.com Many plants have natural substances in their roots, flowers, leaves e … more →

Tags: Companion planting

Singing The Praises of Mugwort — 2 comments

peacefulacres wrote 1 year ago: Mugwort (Artemesia vulgaris) On the last lecture by our Village Herbalist, Heather on The Herb Mento … more →

Tags: about, Herbwyfery, Poison Ivy, thistle, milkweed, Mugwort, village herbalist, blackberry, artemesia vulgaris

Clematis Seed Head, in Green Phase — 2 comments

sbgyn wrote 1 year ago: In a few weeks, as these dry, they will look feathery rather than compact. … more →

Tags: Clematis

Clematis 'Nelly Moser' 2 — 2 comments

sbgyn wrote 1 year ago: This clematis has been around for a long time, and remains loved by those who grow it. … more →

Tags: Clematis

Coreopsis Growing at Base of Cannas

sbgyn wrote 1 year ago: … more →

Tags: coreopsis, Flowers for butterflies

Growing Lettuce — 4 comments

Angie wrote 1 year ago: As you can see I grow some of my lettuce in a hanging basket which is lined with an old fleece, I li … more →

Tags: Vegetable growing, Growing in containers, Companion planting, Lettuce, Lettuce, Salad Bowl, land cress, oak leaf lettuce, growing lettuce

Coreopsis: Companion Plant, Continuous Bloomer, and Loved By Butterflies — 2 comments

sbgyn wrote 1 year ago: Years ago I bought one coreopsis plant in a one-gallon pot. That one plant, mainly through reseeding … more →