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saving tomato seed: a day at the seed library 25 Aug 2013 | 08:43 pm
SEED LIBRARY CO-FOUNDER DOUG MULLER makes it sound easy, and gross in a fun way—you know, like when you’re 12 years old and “gross” is a good thing, an adjective you say and then giggle delightedly at...
learning to can, in a video series with theresa loe (lesson 1: easy refrigerator pickles) 23 Aug 2013 | 04:56 pm
Click here to view the embedded video. THERESA LOE packs more into a garden—or a canning jar—than anyone else I know. A longtime gardener and city homesteader on just a tenth of an acre in Los Angele...
weeds to target late summer and fall (win a weed handbook!) 20 Aug 2013 | 01:33 am
AN ENCORE VISIT to my public-radio show and podcast by Teri Dunn Chace, author of “How to Eradicate Invasive Plants,” happened just in the nick, I do believe. Late summer and fall turn out to be the b...
slideshow: august garden open day 19 Aug 2013 | 05:24 pm
CAN ANYBODY RECOMMEND A LAWNCARE EXPERT? That was my first thought after 650 sets of feet marched on the garden Saturday, in my final Garden Conservancy Open Day of the 2013 visiting season. I say “ma...
in praise of the tip bag, my debris-gathering tool 15 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm
LIKE LINUS WITH HIS BLANKET, I drag it behind me wherever I go. It’s my trusty tip bag, a debris-collecting tool I never thought I’d take a fancy to, having been a bushel-basket or wheelbarrow type fo...
weck jar giveaway, and preserving tips with gayla trail 13 Aug 2013 | 06:27 pm
THE HARVEST IS FINALLY ACCELERATING, which got me thinking about a tool that’s as critical to success right about now as my mower and spade: the perfect canning jar. One morning this week, over a cup ...
open day saturday: great chairs, plants, people 11 Aug 2013 | 07:47 pm
ON MY GARDEN OPEN DAYS, I get a lot of plant questions—no surprise there. I also get a lot of chair questions, as in, “Where can I get those?” The object of the inquiries: several pairs of Wave Hill-i...
lichen moths: bright, beautiful, bizarre 11 Aug 2013 | 05:34 pm
IT WAS 90-SOMETHING DEGREES OUT, but the lichen patterning on one patio stone looked like snowflakes, and I took a photo. That morning, I had shot another picture, of an insect I didn’t know. When it ...
gooseberry lore and more, with josh kilmer-purcell 5 Aug 2013 | 09:57 pm
ONE OF THE FIRST FRUITS that Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge planted when they took ownership of historic Beekman 1802 farm in Sharon Springs, New York: gooseberries. Now the city-turned-country ...
weed wars: hedge bindweed and spotted spurge 4 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
NOT ALL WEEDS ARE ALIENS, and at the moment I’m actually doing battle with two that are technically native American plants, but very unwelcome nonetheless. I’m currently uninviting spotted spurge (top...
