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The Makings of a Vegetable Garden

Even for those of us with a more relaxed attitude towards garden design, a vegetable garden demands discipline. For one,...

pumpkin soup

Have you noticed that there are certain foods you cook just because you are sure you’ll love them, despite the...

Why Beans Have Strings

The often ignored flowers of the common garden bean are a sight to behold! Nature is so extraordinary in its...

kitchen garden flowers

When I started my vegetable garden I embraced the tradition of planting “kitchen gardenflowers” to make it look pretty. A potager is beautiful...

if you give a green thumb a flower bulb

If you give a green thumb a flower bulb she’ll probably want to plant it, so she’ll need a pot...

shiny bows

I am grateful for the rain after the mini-drought in September, one can almost feel how relieved the plants are to have...

holy aloe!

I got this aloe plant for medicinal purposes, since aloe gel is a wonderful moisturizer and a great first aid balm for...

in the sunlight

It was very warm outside when I took this picture, and it’s been like that for a while now. Usually...

golden light

I wondered what gave the hostas their impressive golden foliage last year, and I learned that it was a combination of...

warm fuzzies

Fluffy fuzzy woolly bear caterpillar. When it eventually undergoes metamorphosis it turns into a Tiger Moth (one of the rare...