Thanks to the generous people at Botanical Interests, you have a chance to win six packets of seeds! Just leave a comment on this post before 5:00 PM EST on Thursday, January 29th and then sometime after 5:00 PM EST on January 29th, I’ll generate a random number, count down that many comments, and that person will be the lucky winner! You can either choose to get the seeds shown above, or spend some time over the next few days browsing their website and picking six packets you’d like to have. … [Read more...] about A Chance To Win Free Seeds From Botanical Interests
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In Just Two Months…
In just two months, give or take, I’ll be out in the garden planting ‘Green Arrow’* peas and lettuce and onions.It will be a beautiful early spring day when I get the wheelbarrow out of the garage, load it up with a rake, seeds, onion sets and row markers.Then I’ll look over all the hoes, and pick out one, maybe two, to make nice straight furrows in whatever raised bed I choose for these early crops.It will be just warm enough to wear a lightweight jacket as I kneel down and shake those pale … [Read more...] about In Just Two Months…
Seed Packet Review – Botanical Interests
January 10th and winter continues. We are still about 9 weeks away from being able to sow any seeds in the garden.But this has not kept me from getting six packets of seeds from Botancial Interests Seeds to try in my garden this year.The first thing I noticed about their seed packets, in addition to the beautiful paintings of the flowers and vegetables on each of them, is the amount of information they have managed to get on one packet of seeds.They put information on the front and back of the … [Read more...] about Seed Packet Review – Botanical Interests
Ritual of Seed Catalog Reading and Ordering
My stack of seed catalogs seems to grow each time I go out to the mailbox.Burpee, Jung Seeds & Plants, Territorial Seed Company, Select Seeds, Pinetree Garden Seeds, Thompson & Morgan, Totally Tomatoes, Baker Creek Heirloom Seed, Miller Nurseries, Gurney’s, R.H. Shumway… have all arrived.Park’s, Vermont Bean Seed, Johnny’s Selected Seeds, Henry Fields, and probably a few others that I’ve forgotten about, are no doubt on their way to my mailbox and will arrive any day now.How do these … [Read more...] about Ritual of Seed Catalog Reading and Ordering
Tree-weeds
Do you know what you call tree seedlings that come up all over the garden?Tree-weeds.Yes, they are weeds. But there are some gardeners who get all “funny” about pulling tree seedlings as weeds, especially if the ‘seedling’ gets big enough that it won’t pull out easily and it’s a nice tree like a redbud, Cercis canadensis.They convince themselves that maybe where that tree seedling sprouted would be the perfect place for another tree. And wouldn’t it be fun to have a tree in the garden that grew … [Read more...] about Tree-weeds
Embrace Seeds For A Happier Life
It seems that everyone wants to push the seasons.I haven’t even raked the first fallen leaf and already the mailman has delivered the first seed catalog of the season. It’s from the same company that sent the first seed catalog in past years, at least according to my garden journal.(Well sure I write down in my garden journal when I get my first seed catalog each year. Don’t you? I don’t record when all of the catalogs arrive, there are too many for that, but I generally note when I get the … [Read more...] about Embrace Seeds For A Happier Life
