Get a Head Start On Your Garden: Sprout Seeds Indoors

Astronomers and almanacs tell me that spring will have sprung in the Northern Hemisphere at 1:14 AM, Eastern Daylight Time, on March 20, 2012. To the best of my knowledge, no trumpet calls or ringing [ … ]

We gardeners are a frugal lot. Few of us would throw out seeds that we don’t use. Whether there are too many seeds in the packages we buy (and we don’t plant them all), or [ … ]

As a child growing up in southern Idaho, I understood that water was a valuable commodity. The adults in my life frequently talked about the weather, especially in relation to crops. Too much rainfall could [ … ]