By George! - A Blog!

The good gardener that you are means that you’ve completed all your soil preparation and seed sowing and planting. Now you’re waiting for your first harvests of cool season vegetables.
Here’s a way to speed up the first of your fresh fall food. Grow sprouts.
You put seeds in a Mason jar, add water and in […]

Every October I start my sweet pea garden. This is the flowering fragrant kind, not the edible kind that you eat—pods and all.
They will flower in a multitude of colors in early February (which we call spring) and my motivation is to get a good early bloom before my daughter in South Texas gets […]

I should have been watching more closely during the month of September because now, at the start of October, there’s not much fruit left and it’s a fruit that I like very much.  Little finches chattering away in the leafy branches are a sign that fruit is ripe.  The other sign, some fallen fruit, tells […]

All of us expect a return on the investment of energy we spend on plants as well as the money we used to buy them. We need to plan ahead,and to do this sensibly we need to know how long it will be before we get the expected return.
In the case of annual vegetables […]