Houseplant Starts Make Great Gifts...

Use your green thumb to give gifts to your friends!  It is certainly easy to “snip snip” a few starts off a spider plant or sitck a trailing piece of pothos in a little bud vase.  It is nicer if you go ahead and root those starts yourself and pot them up in a cute flowerpot or plastic pot inside a nice container.  Houseplant starts from your plants make great housewarming gifts, get-well gifts, and...

Aphids in the salad? “They’re a garni...

The morning my boyfriend broke up with me (the one I thought I would marry, though obviously that didn’t happen), I sat in the snow on my patio in Delaware and sobbed my eyes out, planting lettuce in a pot.  I was so upset, I couldn’t see straight, and the only thing I could think to do was garden.  Unfortunately, it was early March in Delaware–not exactly a great time to be gardening.  Never mind the...

What *Was* I Thinking?...

Anyone who gardens can identify with hair-brained schemes that did not go as planned!  I have one such gardening story to share.  It is about my first large-scale vegetable gardening experience. Tons of Tomatillos I had my first vegetable garden when I was about six.  I think I grew tomatoes, and not much else.  I was way more interested in flowers.  I stayed a “flower child” for years and years until I...