Recipes for Winter Harvests
How to make good use out of your Winter harvest
Cat Grass for a Happy Mittens
Cats love chewing on grass. And corn seedlings, apparently (ugh!). And young cover crops (double ugh.) In order to keep Mittens out of the raised beds, we've planted a flat of cat grass just for her. She's enthralled. The convergence of two things brought this on: free Cat Treats, Mixed Gourmet Greens grass seeds arriving from Renee's Garden Seeds (thanks, Renee's Media Kit 2014), and some freshly germinated Sonora White Wheat from our germination test at Seed School. Renee's Cat…
Step 2: Pour seeds into a screen that allows the seeds to fall through, but keeps the chaff.
Let’s Go to Seed School – Part 2
We're back with more about our week in Seed School. (In case you missed the first post, click here.) Later in the week, we delved more into the wonders of seeds with dissection, genetics and seed cleaning. So...let's go to seed school again. Plants are marvelous things, all very different. We were given the charge to look closely at the male and female parts of flowers in order to understand the process of pollination. Once again, when the hand-outs landed…
Tips from Seed School
Save locally adapted seeds for better results
Silver Edged pumpkin seeds
Let’s Go to Seed School – Part 1
I had the pleasure of participating in a 6-day workshop all about seeds, presented by the folks at Native Seeds/Search. More than 30 gardenerds gathered to learn as much as we could, and we were not disappointed. We covered everything from plant genetics (for breeding and plant purity) and plant sex (plant parts), to saving seeds (stomping and screens included) and starting seed libraries. What a ride! So here's a quick review of Part 1 - let's go to seed…
Make meals from the garden with a little planning ahead.
Shopping from your Garden
Today we are joined by Jeriann Watkins, our guest blogger. Jeriann is a writer and self-proclaimed chronic procrastinator who is trying to make her life more intentional by focusing on vegetable gardening, making her own cleaning products, and other frugal living tactics. She's come to Gardenerd to share her strategy for eating and shopping from the garden. Take it away Jeriann! Shopping from Your Garden This year I’ve decided to focus on living frugally and paying off my student loan…
One of many roses and a lime geranium in flower
YouTube: Rose Pruning in 4 Easy Steps
Our latest video on rose pruning is live and ready to help you get your roses in shape for spring. We show you 4 easy steps to guide you through the process, ease fears and keep your roses healthy. While this video was shot in January, you can still take care of your rose pruning tasks in February, and even after they start sending out new growth if you're really behind. Just do it soon and you'll be rewarded with…
All-blue, russet and red potatoes are jewels from the garden.
Winter’s Bounty: Harvesting Colors in Warm-Winter Climates
As much of the country is covered with snow, or too soggy to start spring gardening, the warm-winter gardener is reaping the blessings of mild temperatures. Winter's bounty is a basket of root crops, greens and peas. Take a look at what we're harvesting from this season's Test Garden (p.s. we're not bragging. There have been plenty of failures due to drought conditions and heat waves, but these pictures are too colorful not to share). Our kale may be full…
Rabbit-Proof Garden
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