Great Faith in a Seed

I love watching plants grow - every morning, I walk out and something has changed every time - the tomato plants have grown new suckers, the...

Can't stop the daffodils Hello, springtime! Well, it may be more accurate to say "Hello, mud season." Maple sugaring ...

Watching plants grow is a life-affirming practice, and you long to have more. I can now see how gardening can begin to take over your life....

A friend gave me a copy of Martha Stewart Living to peruse over the weekend, and I found out that the magazine includes a feature at the beg...

May Day 2012 was a wet one - 0.79 inches reported in Concord, NH. This follows a dry April with less than 3 inches of rain and no snow. If y...

I'm trying a new experiment this year - what I'm calling the no records, no special attention version of seed starting. At first, ...

Red-winged blackbirds congregating in the branches of oak trees, our neighbors raking leaves, ducks pairing up on the lakes, and a little gi...

The Cucurbitaceae is a family of vegetables native to tropical and subtropical climates in both the New World (North and South America) and ...

I sat down one night last week and started sketching out my garden plans for the spring. But first, I needed to sketch out what I grew in...

Imagine America in 1784, one year after the end of the Revolutionary War. The official treaty ending the war with England was ratified on ...

I spent a lot of time this past week getting my gardens and my neighbor's garden prepped and planted for the summer. We are headed out o...

We were away for the Memorial Day weekend and had a chance to gawk at the rich farmland along Lake Ontario and the beautiful mountain farms ...

Today was the first day in over a week where it didn't rain, alleluia. The plants did not mind too much, as the extra moisture and cool ...

It's been very busy in the garden the past few weekends. The long-anticipated "is winter really gone?" season is now over, and...

This morning, I woke up late. The sky was overcast and the cat was not as insistent as usual about getting me out of bed, so I stayed in bed...

Adam has been asking me for the past few weeks WHEN am I going to start the peppers? Last year, on Memorial Day weekend, we purchased three...

My boss recently described me as "quite the homemaker." Aw shucks. I don't really consider myself a homemaker, since I do work...

I started planning for the 2011 vegetable gardening season by looking back at 2010. This practice is entirely akin to New Year's Resolut...

I dropped off my seed order at the Lebanon Coop on Thursday, all in a rush to get to a meeting. I ended up being 20 minutes late to the meet...

Wintertime is a bit slow for gardening, a bit short on daylight and a bit long on cold windy nights that are uninspiring for evening walks. ...