I'm now entering into dangerous territory as I continue to read The Little Kitchen Garden by Dorothy Giles, written in 1926. Danger, as in nine bean rows. And no, I don't know how long those rows …
Shall We Harken Back to 1926 for Tomato-Growing Advice?
Shall we harken back to 1926 for some tomato-growing advice? Why not? After all, I've already tried, with pretty good success, growing lettuce like it's 1957. And I'm attempting to get my …
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Garden Fairies Assess the Seed Situation
Garden fairies here. We are garden fairies and we are here to assess the seed situation that someone's shopping of seed sales has caused. Honestly, we are kind of proud of Carol for buying seeds …
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Skip Winter? I Think Not!
Today I pulled The Seasons in a Flower Garden: A Handbook of Information and Instruction for the Amateur by Louise Shelton (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909) off my shelf to see what she wrote about …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, January 2024
Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for January 2024. And Happy New Year. Here in my USDA Hardiness supposedly zone 6b garden in central Indiana, we are experiencing the same artic blast of …
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A Bit of Wisdom from 1935
I'm pleased to bring you a bit of gardening wisdom from 1935, from the book Four Hedges: A Gardener's Chronicle by Clare Leighton. The picture I've chosen to go with this wisdom is just a random, …
