Subject: Honeysuckle Benefits

Honeysuckle Benefits

April 3rd, 2023 at 8:55 pm EST

Spring Garden Greetings! In our daily dog walks, and working around our property, we're enjoying seeing all the plants springing up and even the weeds, because we know that so many of them have all kinds of edible and medicinal benefits. In fact, we ...

[CORRECTION] Planting Purple Majesty Potatoes

March 22nd, 2023 at 3:34 pm EST

WHOOPS! Sorry about this double send. I made a mistake on the Subject Title of the first one. It's not yet time to plant sweet potatoes in NC, but I'm working on an article on those, and then mixed up the title. It actually should've said PURPLE MAJE ...

Planting Purple Sweet Potatoes

March 22nd, 2023 at 3:23 pm EST

Garden Greetings, Friend! Are you growing any kind of purple potatoes? We're all over purple potatoes this season, for a number of reasons, and that's what we're planting in our new raised metal garden beds. First potatoes in this spring are Purple M ...

Growing Radicchio

March 21st, 2023 at 9:00 pm EST

Garden Greetings! Have you started any early spring crops? And are you growing radicchio? We have some growing and want to grow more. 👨🏻‍🌾 Can't wait for when we have more gardening space. It's a work-in-progress! Meanwhile, grateful for w ...

Edible Hostas

March 19th, 2023 at 12:35 pm EST

Garden Greetings, Friend! As you may know by now (unless you're new here), we love discovering the many edible and medicinal uses of the plants all around us. And also to make as much use of the garden plants as possible. For instance, strawberry lea ...

Wild Violets Benefits

March 17th, 2023 at 10:37 am EST

Images of wild violets (Viola sororia) from our walks with our dogs.Garden Greetings! After record-breaking early warm spring in NC, we're back to cooler weather this week. Thanks to frost covers, the salad greens survived 26°F nights, and all the o ...

Sweet Betsy Trillium

March 7th, 2023 at 2:24 pm EST

Greetings! Sorry about the typos in yesterday's email! Editors need editors, LOL! 😜 TRILLIUM - AN EARLY SPRING WILD FLOWERSharing an elegant woodland wildflower we've been visiting daily. Do you have Trilliums around you or in your yard or garden ...

A New Metal Raised Bed

March 6th, 2023 at 11:42 am EST

HELLO FRIEND! It's been a minute. Way too many. Meanwhile, we're back... it's an early spring in NC and we're planning a new garden after having to rip out our old one. More on that below in the brief personal update for those who are interested in t ...