Q and A: planting squash to save seeds and what to feed chicks
Planting squash to save seeds
Help! I received the Hopi Pale Grey Squash seeds and will be planting them. Problem is, I don't know the fancy names for what can be planted near them. Will...
Q and A: planting by the moon and storing whole wheat pasta
Planting by the moon
Do you plant by the moon? When I do, sometimes the weather is bad so when I wait for the weather to clear, the time has passed.
Julie F.
Sunnyside, Washington
No, I don't....
We’ve finally got spring. Again.
After seemingly a month's worth of cloudy, cool days and rain, it is finally starting to feel more like May. My daffodils are going totally crazy. The first ones I planted have multiplied and...
We got our Bliss Triumph seed potatoes from Alaska
We've been searching and searching for Grandpa Eddy's wonderful Bliss Triumph potatoes he grew in the Gallatin Valley, in Montana. A wonderful reader had sent me a bag three years ago, which I planted,...
My little plastic greenhouse is working fine
I was wondering how my little cheap indoor plastic greenhouse would work — both to grow tender plants and to keep Mittens out of them. I have to report success on both fronts. The...