Category: Gardening Tips
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‘Tis the season for starting seeds

Always a sucker for DIY projects, I’ve come a long way from starting seeds in egg cartons on the windowsill. There’s nothing wrong with doing it that way, and I’ve had moderate success with it over the years. I’ve also had miserable, heartbreaking failures from trying to do everything on the cheap, and learned in…
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PREPARING FOR WINTER, THINKING OF SPRING

It’s inevitable, winter is coming. In one week the temperature dropped from nights in the 50’s to nights in the 20’s. This morning we woke up to our first snow. At this time last year, I hadn’t even harvested the last of my tomatoes and the first frost didn’t come until December 3rd, but this…
