Subject: SPRING SHOOTS & CHIVES!

SPRING SHOOTS & CHIVES!

March 21st, 2021 at 3:04 pm EST

SPRING GREETINGS, GARDENER!! Well, yesterday was officially the first day of spring. If you’re in a cold region still under snow. Sorry. We really feel for you. 🥶 We’d have to either move south or have big greenhouses if we were in a colder cl ...

Hydrangeas

March 14th, 2021 at 3:21 pm EST

SPRING SUNDAY GREETINGS, GARDENER! SPRING HAS SPRUNG (in NC 7a) AND SO HAS THE TO-DO LIST!Spring is clearly afoot here, and with that, tons of things to do. Our weekend to-do list included pruning hydrangeas. PRUNING HYDRANGEASSo if you need help wit ...

Sweet Box & Plantago

March 7th, 2021 at 3:55 pm EST

Greetings! WOW! Stepped outside on the last day of February to be hit by the sweetest smell of early spring: The FIRST FRAGRANCE OF PRE-SPRING... the surprisingly, intensely sweet smelling sweet box plant. The flower is so tiny and barely visible, yo ...

Chives vs. Scallions + Gratitude from TX

February 21st, 2021 at 2:21 pm EST

Sunday Greetings, Gardener! The other day we posted a positive and popular meme by John Steinbeck, (it's at the end of this article). And... one poster told us to go to hell . Someone said we should kick them off the page, but instead, we replied tha ...

Edible Hedges & Loss of Power

February 14th, 2021 at 10:31 am EST

GOOD MORNING! We’re without power (since around 9:45 PM Saturday) and internet (since mid morning Saturday), in the Piedmont of NC after freezing rain iced trees and lines. Thanks to a phone hotspot and a few phone chargers, we have enough juice to ...

Rain Gutter Garden Ideas

February 7th, 2021 at 11:01 am EST

GREETINGS, GARDENER! Have you, in your longing for spring, ever started plants too soon? Winter is a great time for projects, especially those that help launch you into spring growing! This week we’re enjoying trying an idea to solve our growing sp ...

Purple Tree Collards

January 31st, 2021 at 6:36 pm EST

GREETINGS, GARDENER! Well, here we are already at the end of January and more than ⅓ through winter! What are you up to in your gardening plans and planning or planting? FAMILY FIRST...This weekend has been full of fun birthday celebrations and lot ...

Ramps!

January 25th, 2021 at 4:23 pm EST

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” Audrey Hepburn’s words are perhaps the most popular of garden quotes. Planting for the next season is a forward looking act of optimism.  No matter the craziness in the world or any personal storm ...

Butterflies & Planners

January 17th, 2021 at 6:38 pm EST

Winter Time Gardening

January 10th, 2021 at 3:59 pm EST

AFTERNOON GREETINGS, FRIEND! What are you up to related to planting, gardening, farming, harvest, preserving, etc? If you're in colder zones, do you have any alternate winter-time creative hobby, project or business? One of our best plant growing ha ...